If you are living with diabetes, or have recently been diagnosed, then you know how challenging it can be to manage your disease and learn all the things you need to learn to stay healthy. There is not enough time in the doctor’s office to learn or even ask the right questions. Healthy eating, menu planning, physical activity, monitoring your blood glucose, stress reduction, and adhering to a medication schedule, will reduce your risk from diabetic complications. That being said, do you need help with this? Are you overwhelmed?
As a board Certified Diabetes Care Education Specialist, Alix helps people that already have diabetes or have pre-diabetes understand how to eat properly, select the right portion sizes at meal times and snacks, and count carbohydrates accurately to successfully manage their blood glucose. Carbohydrate awareness and better meal planning also translate to successful food selections in restaurants and when traveling, helping to minimize high and low blood glucose.
From sick day management, to learning how to safely respond to low or high blood glucose levels, Alix helps her patients become smart, responsive, able to balance their blood sugars within a couple of weeks of getting started. Wouldn’t it be nice to understand a food label, order in a restaurant or fast food meal knowing how to manage your blood sugar, or prepare a healthy meals that actually tastes good? During your nutrition visits, we spend a lot of time learning about your dietary tastes, introducing new foods that heal, and help to resolve big blood glucose swings that you just cannot figure out. With diabetes, the name of the game is knowledge, awareness, and involvement in your health care with your Dietitian and Physician.
Diabetes education is a recognized part of your diabetes care and is covered by Medicare and most health insurance plans when it is offered by an accredited Registered Dietitian provider.
Diabetes treatment may not be a cure, but you can learn to control your diabetes and live well. Learn how to better manage your disease, so it doesn’t manage you.
The American Association of Diabetes Educators has set seven key areas called Self-Care Behaviors that you will learn about during your diabetes counseling sessions. Each person with diabetes can learn how to set priorities around each of these core areas and as your Diabetes nutrition educator, coach you on each of these areas.
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