are you struggling with high blood sugars and would you like to get this nice steady blood glucose line in range then keep watching because I'm going to share with you six tips that helped me to lower my blood sugar let's go hey my name is Tom I've been type 1 diabetic for over 30 years and on this channel I help you on your diabetes journey so how do you lower your blood Sugar's well you should know there is no magic formula and you will not be able to do it overnight you will have to focus
and work hard just like I do plus to make it even more difficult you will have to be very patient not too aggressive not too fast because if you overdo it it might lead to severe hypoglycemia which can be very dangerous but I want to give you a few quick tips that worked for me you can implement these tips right away and these tips helped me keep my blood sugar between four and eight millimoles for most of the time sometimes these small tweaks leave two giant peaks please keep in mind that I'm not a doctor
I'm a diabetic just like you and everything I share here is not medical advice it's just my personal experience you should consult any treatment decisions with your doctor but now let's get into the tips tip number one is to stay active and exercise frequently why because exercise increases insulin sensitivity and insulin is a hormone that breaks down sugars in our body insulin works for us to help us lower our blood sugar so we want to be as sensitive as possible and exercise definitely helps with that what kind of exercise is the best you should focus
on aerobic and resistance exercise so things like walking hiking a light jog works really well for me or just staying active during the day on the other hand an aerobic exercise where you bring your heart rate very high like quick sprints high intensity training or weight lifting are not so good for bringing blood sugar down in some instances they might even bring it so please be aware of that and choose the exercise that works the best for bringing your blood sugar down tip number two is e to the right food but what is the right
food it is the food with low glycemic profile you should try to eat low carb or no carb food and try to replace carbs with fat or protein which are much better for stable low blood sugar into long term great healthy sources of energy with a very little impact on your blood sugar our seafood meat eggs oats beans sweet potatoes vegetables then some non sweet fruit like avocado for example I really like avocado it's probably my favorite food right now also you should try to eat more foods with fiber why because fiber helps slow digestion
and sugar absorption and that is really good for a constant lower blood sugar levels foods that have a lot of fiber are again avocado peas chickpeas lentil olds all kinds of nuts and seeds berries and dark chocolate another great tip is eat more homemade fruit rather than going out and eat in restaurants why because you have much more control over what is going on your plate if you make the food yourself you never know when you're in the restaurant what actually is in the food that you have how much sugar how much carbs and it's
very difficult to control also the restaurants try to make the food taste really good and it won't taste good usually has a lot of sugar a lot of carbs or sweet stuff in it so be aware of that and if you like cooking if you like staying at home eating at home this is definitely the option to go to get your blood sugar down don't forget to carb count and take the insulin with every carbon meal tip number three is an easy one stay hydrated why because drinking a lot of water helps your kidneys to
flush the excessive blood sugar away from your body through urine I told you this one was easy tip number four less easy try to avoid stress I realized that extreme stress can spike up my blood Sugar's like crazy let me show you something this is my body's reaction to a very stressful meeting between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. you can see there is an extreme spike there was no food involved and this spike was caused only by stress obviously I don't have a magic formula to reduce everyone's stress levels but if you're aware of that it
can help you be more proactive and manage stress level and the insulin dosage that you take during these situations speaking of proactivity tip number five be proactive and plan your day if you plan to be staying at home sitting around all day you might want to increase your basal rate slightly and not to correct at the point where your blood sugar already is high on the other hand we don't planning to go for a long hike and you will be hiking all day you might want to decrease the basal rate so that you don't get
into a hypo and you prevent getting into hypo and then having to deal with that this is of course very difficult and requires a lot of self-discipline to plan for every day in this amount of detail but this can really make wonders I promise speaking of proactivity quick tip always free bottles for quick carbs if I plan to eat pasta pizza or some sugary food I know my blood sugar will spike like crazy so what I do is I take my insulin at least 20 minutes before I eat so I avoided the spike or at
least minimize the spike caused by the amount of quick carbs that I check into my body so always remember to pre bolus when you eat quick carbs tip number six is test your blood sugar frequently or use CGM all the tips that work for me that i mentioned here these are really working for me for my body but every one is different so the more you test your blood sugar the more information you have for your decision-making the better decisions you can make so really testing testing and testing this is the most important thing that
will really help you dramatically to lower your blood sugar because having all the data will let you make a good decision if you don't have data you will probably make a bad decision what you might try to do is schedule a short meeting with yourself once a week 15 minutes and put it on your calendar and during these 15 minutes just focus on reviewing your blood sugar trends in the last week and see if you can identify any patterns that would require slight adjustments to your insulin dosage it's really only 15 minutes it will take
you this little time and you can do that instead of watching Netflix or whatever activity you do that's not really bringing so much value into your life just replace that with this short meeting with yourself please remember that you will need to be patient because perfect blood sugars are not a destination it's not a point in time to which you will get and from this point on the blood sugars will be perfect forever perfect blood sugars is more a journey that you will have to navigate for the rest of your life and on this channel
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