You know better than anyone else. Having type 1 diabetes is hard. It is challenging. It can also be rewarding, frustrating, elating, isolating, and inspiring. Unlike any other chronic condition, there is constancy to diabetes that makes what you do incredible. 24-7-365: that is what makes what you do incredible. Now, throw a little exercise or whole lot of training into the mix and see what happens. Well, you know what happens. The roller coaster ride that may ensue can be so frustrating that it even keeps people from taking on the most beneficial thing that they could do for there diabetes health.
You see, it doesn’t really matter if you have your sights set on starting a fitness program or finishing an Ironman. Whatever your goal you will be achieving the same health benefits of improving your cardiovascular fitness: your heart health. And, that is what diabetes management is all about. As much as it may seem to be about chasing numbers and “flat-lining” those glucose numbers, what you are really trying to do is to protect those blood vessels that feed your heart, your kidneys, and your brain! There is no single pill that anyone could prescribe to you that will have the same effects as developing a greater level of fitness will. Try to find a pill that will help stabilize your blood sugar, improve your cholesterol, lower your blood pressure, improve the way your blood vessels function, decrease your waist line, increase your muscle mass, improve your mood, and help you get better rest.
- As far as the numbers go, what we would like to do is provide you with a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary team of specialists that can help you think about your diabetes management in a whole new light. You want to be proactive more than reactive. You want to set yourself up to predict- to know- what is going to happen to your control when you exercise. Rather than focusing your attention on how to correct when you go high or go low, let’s talk about what was supposed to be happening in the first place and how you can set yourself up to try to replicate normal physiology. We don’t care if you use pumps or injections, meters or continuous glucose monitors, your abdomen or you thigh. What we do care about is sharing our knowledge and understanding of diabetes management strategies that will free you up to pursue all that you want to do.
Let us also help to move you beyond the glucose numbers and insulin doses as you learn from so many of our experts. You will learn how to train more efficiently and effectively. You will learn how to start up a fitness program that will lead you down a path to greater health, not frustration and/or injury. You will learn about the mind-body connection, and how you may have more control over your health and glucose control than you may have thought previously. And you will learn about fueling your exercise and training, as opposed to the numbers of carbs in that banana-nut muffin (ok, maybe we’ll talk about grams of carbs a little bit..)
You deserve to surround yourself with a team of people that can help you achieve your goals. We believe that you should be the quarterback of that team, but that you deserve a team. The team at Diabetes Training Camp was hand-picked to come together to do just that- be your team. Each member of the team is incredibly talented, but above all else, they are good people and they get it. You know how hard that can be to come by. They get it, and they look forward to helping you reach your goals.
Above all else, at Diabetes Training Camp, you will meet others that are taking on similar challenges and share similar goals. You will literally meet friends that we are sure will last a lifetime. You will be surrounded by other incredible people, like yourself, taking on the challenges of living healthfully with diabetes, and thriving with type 1 diabetes.
We look forward to seeing you at Camp!
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