If you do find you’re HbA1c levels are high, here are some tips:

• Take your diet seriously – Meet with a diabetic dietician to create a meal plan specialized for you and to lower your HbA1c levels. In case you haven’t heard it before, moderation is key.
• Start exercising – Focus especially on cardiovascular activity. If you’ve sustained high HbA1c levels for long periods of time, chances are you’ll have deterioration in your blood vessels and capillaries. Get that blood moving!
• Take more frequent glucose meter readings – (and record them into SugarStats ) In order to keep your sugars balanced in a day-to-day setting, this is important as each day plays its role in the overall picture.
• Implement Limits & Restrictions – If you get a meal plan setup then you’ve got a lot of ground covered. But you still need to be very conscious about everything else. Especially when it comes to snacks and alcohol. Moderation is key.
• Keep medication on hand, always. – In case you don’t already, get into the habit of keeping around medication wherever you go. If you do some research, you’re sure to find a semi-convenient way to carry/store your medication safely wherever you go. Because if you eat a small snack with lots of carbs and sugar, or seriously over-compensate for a low you had and it takes you 1-2 hours to get home then that is not good. Thats 1-2 more hours your glucose levels are going to stay elevated.
• Start making targets and goals – Part of any plan or project is that of setting targets and goals to meet and the project of managing your diabetes is no different. By setting goals for target blood sugars, target meals or meal sizes, target insert anything related to reducing your blood glucose levels here, you’ll have a clear picture of where you want to be and at the same time give yourself motivation to reach those goals.
• Bonus tip: If your’e a diabetic smoker, try to stop – When it comes down to it, everything is a conscious choice. Though some decisions we consciously made long ago and could have been making unconsciously ever since. One for example could be smoking, you decided to try at one point and just kept doing it. Well if you’re a smoker and a diabetic with elevated HbA1c levels then you’re doing a major double whammy to your body, cardiovascular blood circulation and blood vessels. If it is in your decisive will to do, quiting (or at least cutting down) on smoking is something that your body will thank you for.
  
  
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  This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 at 11:02 am and is filed under Diabetes Medication, Diabetes Tips, Diabetic Health, Fitness, Food, Glucose Management, SugarStats Status, Treatment.
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