Make
2010
the year you
take control
If it’s motivation you’re lacking, then
Dr Leanne’s eight-step guide to getting to
grips with your diabetes management will
be just the thing…
The start of a new year is the traditional where we can make improvements, but how
time to review our lives – to think about can we go about getting the kick-start we
what was good and bad about the year need to fire us into action?
which has just passed, and to develop
strategies to make this year the best ever.
A large proportion of us will even make
and attempt to keep those dreaded New
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It’s up to you
The hardest part of making any
change is acknowledging that we
Year’s resolutions. It strikes me that this need to do so in the first place. For any cycle
is the perfect time to review our diabetes of change to really get going, an individual
management too – what better time of year needs to recognise that they have bad habits,
to consider a fresh start and strive to make behaviours or choices that they can choose
2010 the year we really take control? to change. While our families and friends
Some readers may feel they’ve always can make suggestions and offer support, as
had poor diabetes management and things the people with diabetes, we are the only
are so far away from good control that ones who can alter our behaviours, eating
getting it back on track is too big a task. habits, and monitoring choices. Remember,
Others may have bad habits that feel too if you can see your own bad habits and want
hard to break, or it might be that you feel to change them, you are far more likely to
you have great diabetes control already and achieve a change. Someone pointing out our
don’t need to change a thing. failings can open our eyes to them, but to be
For most of us, though, the reality is successful in the cycle of change we have to
that there will always be at least some areas want to change things for ourselves. ShutterStock
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