“Will my blood sugar levels reduce if I exercise and reduce weight?”
In my recent blood test, my blood sugar levels showed a higher range than normal. Can I reduce this by exercising and losing weight? Or will I have to start my diabetes medication?
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Yes. Exercising and losing weight can help to get blood sugar in control. If you have pre-diabetes (fasting blood sugar 100 to 125 or HgbA1C 5.7% to 6.4%), trials such as the "diabetes prevention and treatment trial" show that you can reduce your risk of progressing to type 2 diabetes by as much as 50% with lifestyle therapies such as exercise and diet. see https://professional.diabetes.org/sites/professional.diabetes.org/files/media/mather_2016.pdf
Absolutely! Yet if you are on medications continue taking them, and as you become lighter and exercise you will be able to discontinue them.
Do it! YOU CAN!
Do it! YOU CAN!
If you have type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes caused by overweight or obesity, then losing weight through diet and exercise can normalize your sugar.
Of course you can. Thanks.
This depends on your glucose readings, i.e FBL, 2 hr postprandial gl and HBA1C. The short answer to your question is yes.
Diet and exercise can help reduce blood glucose levels. However, sometimes despite this treatment, patients require the assistance from medications too.
Yes you can reduce your blood sugar (BS) with diet, wt. loss & exercise. I do not have enough information to completely answer your question. How old are you, what is your Ht. & Wt (BMI) and what was your BS? Also was a Hemoglobin A1c done & what was it? If I had this info. I could better answer your ? about medication. There are degrees of loss of insulin production and this governments BS & HbA1c. The more loss of insulin production you have in your pancreas cells the more medication. If your diabetes is early & you still have a lot in insulin production the taking the strain off the insulin production by diet, exercise & losing wt. may prevent medication for now. If you have lost a lot of insulin production you may need medication. Also remember that insulin production is lost with time and even if medication is not needed now, it may be in the future so good followup with your Dr. will be needed.
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