Extending and reporting on my journey into the pool has nothing to do with boasting about swimming so many laps in an hour. Of course, I am proud of my accomplishments. But, please remember I trained from an early age to swim and it comes very naturally to me. On the other hand, I can't run to catch a bus — just ask anyone in my family. They laugh at my feeble attempts. Really!
The reason for writing about my exercise is to encourage you and everyone else I can reach to:
- Set reasonable exercise goals for yourself — and a pattern to achieve them even if it is just walking 20 minutes a day
- Measure your blood sugar levels before and after — and even during if you start to feel lightheaded
- Come back here and share your results with others
Only by teaming up as patients can we impact the medical and research community to focus more attention and resources on the broad range of glucose metabolism problems.
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