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From: mush97 on 21 Feb 2006 23:59 Hi, I am 60 years old Male and have Diabetes T2 for the last 10 year. I am taking Amryl and Gloucophage. Please guide me to what exercise, and durintion, should I take to control my BS. Regards.
From: explorer50 on 22 Feb 2006 00:20 In article <t6ednUznBKhGcmbenZ2dnUVZ_tCdnZ2d(a)giganews.com>, "mush97" <mush97(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am 60 years old Male and have Diabetes T2 for the last 10 year. > > > I am taking Amryl and Gloucophage. > > Please guide me to what exercise, and durintion, should I take to control > my BS. > > Regards. I guess I am surprised that if you have had T2 for 10 years that you haven't been walking already. I do 30 minutes a day broken up in 3/10 minute sessions. Brought my A1c from 10.3 to 6.3. 10 minutes doesn't bore me and doesn't over tire me.
From: Freckles on 22 Feb 2006 00:25 "mush97" <mush97(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:t6ednUznBKhGcmbenZ2dnUVZ_tCdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > Hi, > > I am 60 years old Male and have Diabetes T2 for the last 10 year. > > > I am taking Amryl and Gloucophage. > > Please guide me to what exercise, and durintion, should I take to control > my BS. > > Regards. I'm a 68 years old male and have had Diabetes T2 for about as long as you. I am taking 4 mg of Amaryl twice a day and Insulin on a sliding scale as needed. I find a daily walk on my tread mill for 30 minutes at 2 MPH does the trick for me.
From: mush97 on 22 Feb 2006 00:36 Thanks all. "Freckles" <freckles1507(a)comcast.net> wrote in message news:5dSdnTwt7ORCaGbe4p2dnA(a)comcast.com... > > ">> I am 60 years old Male and have Diabetes T2 for the last 10 year. >> >> >> I am taking Amryl and Gloucophage. >> >> Please guide me to what exercise, and durintion, should I take to >> control my BS. >> >> Regards. > > I'm a 68 years old male and have had Diabetes T2 for about as long as you. > > I am taking 4 mg of Amaryl twice a day and Insulin on a sliding scale as > needed. > > I find a daily walk on my tread mill for 30 minutes at 2 MPH does the > trick for me. > >
From: fact-checker on 22 Feb 2006 08:11
mush97 wrote: > Hi, > > I am 60 years old Male and have Diabetes T2 for the last 10 year. > > > I am taking Amryl and Gloucophage. > > Please guide me to what exercise, and durintion, should I take to control > my BS. > > Regards. ========== It all depends on your present weight, your present ability to walk distances, your goals, the amount of time available on your schedule. I was very much overweight. Using a sensible diet in which I ate a light breakfast and light lunch and a large supper (and still have some fun foods like chocolate), combined with several long walks every day as my only exercise, I have lost 44 pounds since last May. I am still diabetic, but the weight loss dramatically lessened the amount of diabetic medicine I must take. By the time I lose another 15 pounds I hope that I will no longer need insulin at all and can get my on just the pills. When Mike Huckabee, governor of Arkansas, lost 100 pounds, he was happy to discover that he was no longer diabetic at all. Here is a great site for geting started on walking for exercise and for weight loss: http://walking.about.com/cs/howtoloseweight/a/howcalburn.htm Even if you don't need to loose weight, walking for exercise is great for increasing circulation in the legs, important for diabetics who have poor curculation down there. And such walking prevents future weight gain if you are already at a good weight. A 30-minute stroll 3 times per day along with cutting 300 calories from her daily intake is part of my wife's plan to lose 50 pounds in the next 8 months. That is a very realistic plan and goal that won't require either extreme dieting or extreme exercise. - moshe |