@bootyful0 Yes! The video covers a lot of ground at a rapid pace. Too much to absorb with one viewing. I too plan to rewatch it a few times.
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@leslie10152 I want to thank you both for bringing up the conflicting advice surrounding walking.
Did a quick search and found this excellent article. After reading it, I feel it's more important than ever to walk and continue walking. Hope you do too...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/milt-bedingfield/post_9394_b_7188266.html
As for walking with high blood glucose levels, I began the low carb diet and began walking daily within days of my rediagnosis of type 2 diabetes with an A1c of 9.9% and never stopped. It wasn't easy at first. I weighed 180 pounds, 80 pounds more than my lean body mass weight, so I walked short distances at first and built up from there.
Interestingly, I did develop neuropathy type pain in the top of my right foot briefly but I stuck with the diet and walking and it faded away over a period of weeks, never to return. I learned here from others that the nerves become more painful when they're
healing.
I had no history of peripheral neuropathy up until that point, but I did have foot and ankle swelling during the warmer months for 10 years prior to that. I read in a book written by a seasoned functional medicine practicioner, Jeffry Bland, Ph.D., that one of the B vitamins, 500 mg of pantothenic acid, helps with this problem and added it to the B-complex I'd been taking. To my delight the swelling began improving. Today, I rarely experience swelling.
This was a huge win for me because my endocrinologist's nurse told me it was unrelated to diabetes and to see my doctor. I did. They did an ultrasound to insure there wasn't a circulation problem. There wasn't. They shrugged and sent me home with no answers though to the doctor's credit, he held my feet and appeared to silently pray for me, which I found very touching. Years later I learned the above treatment strategy. So grateful it worked.
As for not walking with high glucose levels, I can't find any information supporting that, but would like to know if it exists.
My experience differs. Walking helped me get my glucose levels down and stable within 4 weeks following my rediagnosis of type 2 diabetes with the help of the low carb diet. An hour and a half after dinner, I'd walk. Still do by the way. As I walked more, beginning with a mile, I eventually built up to 3 miles. I wore socks and good quality shoes designed specifically for walking and don't recall developing blisters. Midway through my first year of walking, I could knock a higher glucose level down by 80 mg/dl! I'm now beginning my third year of walking and recently knocked a high glucose level down by 120 mg/dl! But again, that didn't happen in the beginning. It took a long time to build up to that benefit. My thinking is that walking improves circulation and blood glucose levels.