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Any diabetics using the FB?

Wondering if there are any diabetics out there who are using the FB and working towards weight loss?  I'm insulin dependent and trying to lose weight but more importantly trying to regain my health and physical strength while balancing everything.  A challenge a day! Love to hear your stories....

Laura
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Great on-line article about how sunshine can combat Type II Diabetes:

 

Sunshine & Type II Diabetes

Lew Wagner
Author of Losing It - My Weight Loss Odyssey
Do or do not, there is no try - Yoda
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I have been a Type 1 for 59+ yrs. I just got my FB and am trying to use it to help lose 10lbs. I have a treadmill that I'll be using, and I hope to be able to make use of my free Silver Sneekers membership to get good workouts. Hopefully the FB will help too!

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I am a type 2 diabetic for three years. Love my fitbit zip, except the battery doesn't seem to be lasting very long. I aim for 10,000 steps a day.
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Great on-line article about good and bad foods for Diabetics:

 

Best & Worst Foods for Diabetes

Lew Wagner
Author of Losing It - My Weight Loss Odyssey
Do or do not, there is no try - Yoda
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Hi Laura,

 

I am Type 2 Diabetic, insulin dependent and take oral meds. Losing weight is definately a struggle! I bought my Fitbit far a challenge sponsored by my work for us to walk 10,000 steps a day for a month and I joined that challenge. The challenge with work ended in Septmber but I still get excited to see how much I have walked. Everyday is a challenge but keep on moving!

 

Mary

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Type 2 diabetic here as well as a bunch of other stuff including sleep apnea... I got my fitbit flex for tracking my sleep rather than steps (though thats been revealing, seems I walk more than I thought I did) and recently acquired a set of scales because I never remembered to record what the mechanical scales said... today, it claims I lost 12Kg in the last week... yes Kg not lb... and I dont believe it even though I want to. (the mechanical scales show me to be where I thought, no loss this week because I have been "bad")

 

I'm doing LCHF (read at dietdoctor.com) and I am losing weight, but I need to drop something like 50Kg to get to where I ought to be... I havent been there since I was 15 so I dont think its too likely.  I'm aiming shorter than that and will reassess once the goal is reached.

 

In the meantime I must ask a Q in whichever forum deals with the Aria scales 😕

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I am diabetic, and recently got a fitbit to help with weight loss. I am not on insulin, and trying to get off 

p erscription drugs completely.  I have lost 40 pounds, and need to lose another 30.  Logging my food is helping me control the amount of food I am eating.

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I was able to ascertain that the scales have become attached to one location only.  I had lost another 2Kg 🙂  

 

I was logging food for a while but found it as tiresome as manually recording my BGL (I use Glooko and my iPhone now) and of course sleep and steps are recorded automatically.  I look for the easiest way to deal.  Now, fitbit, how about a BP machine?

 

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... NVM

 

a safari script for ebay was rudely inserting itself every time I posted.

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Hello everyone,

I'm brand new to Fitbit. I don't have diabetes, but my youngest has T1D. She was diagnosed a year and a half ago. I understand what a strugle it can be to have it and to deal with testing blood all the time and getting injections. I help my daughter with her injections (when she is not on the pump) and help her with testing and carb counting. Since she was diagnosed she has only gained around 2 pounds. She is only 9. She did gain back the 10 pounds she had lost when we first found out. Now any time she gets sick she drops 10 pounds in one day. I would love to be able to talk to others that are diabetic or not.

Thanks for reading!

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Have you tried Carbmaster pasta? It's has 5 cabs per serving. This is the only pasta that I keep in my house now and it doesn't make my daughters blood spike at all.
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Count me in. Diabetic and Insulin dependent (at least at present; optimistic that I can reduce or eliminate Insulin once my weight gets lower).   Finding the FitBit Flex a great motivator since we tend to do more steps than we sometimes realize --- even at 2,000+ step/average per day, I think I'm doing OK.  Would like to get the steps increased and am looking forward to doing so once I get my sleep issues organized so I can get out and step it up during the day instead of making up sleep hours and losing my days.  In any case, I've been more optimistic since I got my fuschia band FitBit Flex and am considering getting some more vibrant coloured bands to keep my mood up there. G.

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Way to go, GoldaT! Every journey begins with the first steps and it sounds like you are committed to reclaiming your health.  It's important to remember that diet and exercise are a lifestyle change, and not something that will end once you achieve the goals you have set for yourself.  I haven't posted anything for awhile, but have found that the fitbit commuity is a caring and supportive bunch. My fitbit has been a wonderful tool to help remind me to get my steps in everyday. Best wishes for continued success!!!

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Thanks for posting Lew.  Very helpful.

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Hi I am an insulin dependent diabetic who uses the fitbit flex. I love it. It motivates me and helps me reach my goals. It gives me a better understanding of calories in vs calories burned to reach the goals. I just test my blood sugar levels more frequently. I am on a pump so I can set temporary rates based on my needs for exercise. I also have a cgm so that comforts me because it will alert me when I am rising or falling to fast as well as predict highs and lows.
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Righto
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I don't get paid for anything I said. It's how I feel.
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Fair enough but if you are indeed insulin dependent you can't stop taking
it. As a type 1 who did 3 months on exercise and diet alone, its a lot of
exercise and not much food and eventually you become ketonic.
Not to be discouraging but a clear vision of how this long term chronic
condition progresses is needed.
Search about for the type of treatments available before the invention of
insulin, don't throw away the most important tool you have yo control your
diabetes long term.
Try olive leaf extract or all the other stuff that can prolong the life of
your beta cells. Because after the honeymoon its a lifetime of hard yards,
no shortcuts with diabetes, no silver bullet product or exercise routine.
Maybe its the shareholders of the food companies that should take the Falk
on this first world epidemic.
Good luck, go well with heart and eyes open.
Righto
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Dr Bernstein is a smart guy, and right on the money.  Another website worth reading is http://www.dietdoctor.com.  He also has some recipes which are diabetes friendly (be careful though, not all of them are)

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Glad to hear from you. Are you also using myfitnesspal? I am and finding it
helpful with calorie counting. It syncs with fitbit as well. Today my
diabetes readings were quite high but lower at dinnertime. I have to watch
calories as at the moment I don't exercise enough- - mostly steps which
apparently burns one calorie per step. I guess I need to 'step it up' in
order to burn more calories to lose the forty eight pounds I've set as my
goal.
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