If you sleep for 8 hours a night, the recommended amount of rest every night, and you stop drinking water 2, or 3 hours before going to bed, you are reducing your water intake

to only the hours you are awake.

When you stand, gravity keeps water in the lower part of your body, causing swelling in your legs.

When you lie down and the lower part of your body is at the level of the kidneys, the kidneys remove fluids because the body is more comfortable in a horizontal position.

The body needs a certain minimum amount of water to eliminate toxins from the body.

Drinking water is also very important.

Drinking water at certain times maximizes its impact on the body's function:

- 2 glasses of water after waking up - helps activate internal organs

- 1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal - aids digestion

- 1 glass of water before bathing - helps lower blood pressure (did anyone know this?)

- 1 glass of water before bed - prevents stroke or heart attack (good to know!)

Additionally, water before bed helps prevent nighttime leg cramps.

Leg muscles need fluid because they contract, and due to a lack of it, they wake up with muscle spasms.

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Pass this message on to others, at least 10 people,

knowing that this information could save lives.

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I use the Free Style Libre 2 CGM from Abbott

It provides information on my Current Blood Glucose level,

the trend, and my time in range.

Blood sugar—Canada—measured in mmol/L or millimoles per litre

CGM Blood Sugar Range — “Green Zone” - 3.9 to 10.0 mmol/L

CGM Blood Sugar Range — “Yellow Zone” - 10.13 to 13.3 mmol/L

CGM Blood Sugar Range — “Red Zone” greater than 13.3 mmol/L

Some medical tests report results in millimoles

per litre (mmol/L).

A mole is an amount of a substance that contains a large

number 6 followed by 23 zeros of molecules or atoms.

A millimole is one-thousandth of a mole.

A litre measures fluid volume.

Myhealth.Alberta.ca

Author - Healthwise Staff

In the Green Zone, Yeah!

A nice almost straight line.

6.2 mmol/L is the current Blood Glucose Reading.

The Arrow indicates the trend which is flat.

Looks like I am having a good day.

In the Yellow Zone! But not by much.

The top of the Green Zone range is 10 mmol/L so 10.4 mmol/L

is not much out of zone and the arrow indicates a

Flat trend.

It is a sharp peak though so what was it I consumed that

caused this?

In the Yellow Zone! But not by much.

The top of the Green Zone range is 10 mmol/L so 10.4 mmol/L

is not much out of zone and the arrow indicates a

Flat trend.

It is a sharp peak though so what was it I consumed that

caused this?

In the Yellow Zone! But not by much.

The top of the Green Zone range is 10 mmol/L so 10.4 mmol/L

is not much out of zone and the arrow indicates a

Flat trend.

It is a sharp peak though so what was it I consumed that

caused this?

I find it best to monitor my Blood Glucose and consume food and

drinks sensibly and so long as I am in the Green Zone, not

to be too worried by the "shape" of the graph.

Trying to achieve a perfectly flat line. I feel is "too" much.

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Thank you.

In December 2022 I was diagnosed as a Type 2 Diabetic. It took a few weeks of being in a dark place before I

took ownership of my response to the diagnosis.

My response was to make the Life Style changes that allowed me to be free of medication by November of 2023.

Maintaining the Life Style changes since November has been the next challenge I am dealing with, and will be

writing and creating books and videos about. For now, let’s concentrate on July 2nd.

I met with my doctor for her to educate me about why I was taking the Blood Thinner and Blood Pressure medications I am.

You can browse the internet and find out what a medication is, but why I would be taking it and not another needs a doctor to explain.

After that was dealt with we started talking about Diabetes.

She made the point that Diabetes is a condition that will always be present.

It is not like the flu or a broken arm. Once the flu has passed and the broken arm has healed you can say: “I had the flu” or, “I had a broken arm.” You cannot say “I had Diabetes.”

Being off medication just means I am a Type 2 Diabetic that manages their condition through diet.

This was interesting because I was confident in owning my response to my diagnosis, but I had never owned my diagnosis itself.

Because I would always be a diabetic, I had to own it.

After some focused medication sessions where owning my diagnosis was the focus, I came to terms with this fact.

Some people may say that owning the diagnosis has to come before owning the response.

I argue no.

The response, the Life Style changes, has to come before owning the diagnosis.

The Life Style changes confirmed the approach and my understanding of my condition.

My message is that if you have Type 2 Diabetes, own your diagnosis and your response to it.

Use Focused medication to guide you through this second period of ownership.

Be gentle with yourself as you practice and focus on something unique and

special.

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Thank you.