Type 2 Only able to walk short distances

[Lilabelle]

Excercise always seems to figure prominently in regulating blood sugar but what can you do if you aren't able to walk very far and can't get to a swimming pool?

 

[Pipp]

Have you tried chair based exercises?
Chair Based Exercise - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com › watch

 

[Lilabelle]

Thank you for the link to YouTube, Pipp. I'll definitely have a go. Your story is very inspirational. I asked my diabetic nurse about the Newcastle diet but she told me not to do it. I had researched it and got copies and I was really keen to try it and felt geared up to give it my best so felt very deflated when she couldn't support me. I am doing the low carb programme through Diabetes uk now so I'll see how I go and try to speak to my nurse again at my next review - perhaps she'll see things differently by then, maybe read up on it herself.

 

[Pipp]

Thank you for the link to YouTube, Pipp. I'll definitely have a go. Your story is very inspirational. I asked my diabetic nurse about the Newcastle diet but she told me not to do it. I had researched it and got copies and I was really keen to try it and felt geared up to give it my best so felt very deflated when she couldn't support me. I am doing the low carb programme through Diabetes uk now so I'll see how I go and try to speak to my nurse again at my next review - perhaps she'll see things differently by then, maybe read up on it herself.

Hi @Lilabelle

I am not sure why the Newcastle diet would be your first choice? Although you are keen to try it, perhaps there is a good reason the nurse advised against it? It won't suit everyone. Low carb is an excellent choice. A method I use now, and would certainly have considered it had I known about it before undertaking the Newcastle diet.

Perhaps your nurse will be more supportive of low carb, particularly if you provide the information from the studies of Dr David Unwin, a member here, I have copied the information from his member profile here..........

• Twitter @lowcarbGP
  Publications:
  Low carbohydrate diet to achieve weight loss and improve HbA1c in type 2 diabetes and pre‐diabetes: experience from one general practice.Practical Diabetes. Unwin D, Unwin J. 2014;31(2):76http://www.practicaldiabetes.com/SpringboardWebApp/userfiles/espdi/file/March%202014/PP%20Unwin%20final%20proofs%20revised.pdf
  Diabesity; Perhaps we can make a difference after all? Diabesity in PracticeVol No.4 2014 UnwinDJhttp://www.diabesityinpractice.co.uk/media/content/_master/3963/files/pdf/dip3-4-131-4.pdfA patient request for some ‘deprescribing’. DJ Unwin & SM Tobin. BMJ2015; 351doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h4023(Published 03 August 2015) This is about how diet can help a patient who wants to come off his medication for diabetes do it safely http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.h4023?ijkey=AN2nBwW6h3wuQJK&keytype=ref
• Raised GGT levels, Diabetes and NAFLD: Is dietary carbohydrate a link? Primary care pilot of a low carbohydrate dietDavid J. Unwin1, Daniel J. Cuthbertson2, Richard Feinman3 & Victoria S. Sprung2.Diabesity in Practice;September 2015 http://bit.ly/1NYsS6x

If you want to increase exercise, it doesn't have to be difficult. I cannot walk very far, and although I try to exercise in a swimming pool, this isn't always possible. Those days I am not able to swim I try to make sure I move as much as possible. Sometimes that is doing 'circuits' of the garden, using the furniture as equipment, holding on to chair backs and doing leg raises, doing arm raises holding small bottles of water, etc. Just doing calf raises waiting for the kettle to boil. I don't think exercising this way helps with my weight loss, but hoping it slows muscle wastage as I am of a certain age.

Keep reading around forums. Lots of support and ideas. Good luck.