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04-06-2008, 10:58 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 119
| | | How Do You Exercise? I like to put my cable tv on the disco music channel and march to the music.
Stacey The Diabetic Pastry Chef | 
04-07-2008, 12:38 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Beijing, China
Posts: 400
| | I put on my nicest work out clothes, stick my iPod on my ears and play 80's stuff as I run on the treadmill...great beat and good for getting the blood pumpin'!  | 
04-07-2008, 01:36 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Spotsylvania, VA (USA)
Posts: 1,127
| | | I just walk and in the house!!! I turn on the tv loud and just walk from my kitch through the dining room, living room, and sun room. Then I also do the horse chores which very soon will include exercising them for show season. | 
04-07-2008, 09:42 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
Posts: 2,586
| | I go to the gym 5 times a week. Daily I ride the recumbent bike for 45 minutes, at varying levels (the random setting). Then on Mondays I do upper body weights, Wednesdays are lower body, and Fridays are total body.
I take weekends off from exercise.  | 
04-07-2008, 09:44 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Florida
Posts: 72
| | | 2.5-3 mile run on treadmill, 8min pace
__________________ You must get rid of the life you have planned to live the life you have. | 
04-07-2008, 09:46 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 6,006
| | | I walk 2.5 miles a day with my dogs, bike ride, kayak and rollerblade. I also use my recumbent bike for 45 minutes on random on rainy days. I have a treadmill, but until my son moves out, my exercise room is out of commission.
__________________ Nancy Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular. diagnosed type 1 October 1986
currently using Medtronic MiniMed
paradigm 715 CLEAR | 
04-07-2008, 09:54 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Posts: 34
| | | I try to go to the gym at least 3 days a week, the past couple of months have been **** through | 
04-07-2008, 10:54 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Vermont
Posts: 1,124
| | | I don't have a routine, I'm happy to reinvent my workout every day. Today I slept in so after work I'll go to my garage and hit vast collection of free or nearly free exercise equipment for strength training. After that I'll load up Riley, my 20 lb grandson into the nearly free backpack carrier and walk with him up to the top of the nearby hill for a nice view of the sunset over Lake Champlain and the Adirondack mountains of upstate NY. It's a 4 mile round trip. Sometimes I keep walking all the way to the town line, that's an 8 mile trip with some extra steep hills!
Yesterday I spent the day snowboarding. Spring time is so nice, but the good weather drew quite a crowd by mid day. I think I'll chop and stack some firewood tomorrow. (no crowds for that)
__________________ Diagnosed Type 2 on Sept 11, 2007 - A1c 8.8, Dec 2007 A1c 6.0, Apr 2008 A1c 5.7
No meds, daily 81mg aspirin and multivitamin, nutrition & exercise. Lacto-ovo vegetarian since Sept 1986You can call me  | 
04-07-2008, 01:09 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
Posts: 4,299
| | | When the weather is nice, on days off I play golf--walking, never in a cart.
Mostly I use a HealthRider, get full workout in less time than anything else I've found.
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"I am wounded," he said, "wounded, and it will never heal."
Frodo to Samwise
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04-07-2008, 01:31 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Louisiana
Posts: 150
| | I watch scary movies. It gets my heart rate up and then my exercise is done for the day  I hear you can burn major calories this way, if only I could lay off the extra butter popcorn and coke. | 
04-08-2008, 02:51 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 625
| | I have been going to our local Greenway on nice days and walking 2 miles. I try to also walk my dog another .5 to 1 mile as well. One bad weather days, I do stretching and aerobic type exercises and now have started using my mini trampoline. Ya gotta have music to do that! 
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I'm becoming scale-obsessed again ... someone help me!
Type 2 - Dx 9/11/03 - A1c 8.3
2/01/08 - A1c 6.3
4/01/08 - A1c 5.9 
Current Meds - Janumet 50/1000 2x daily
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04-08-2008, 03:05 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Alabama
Posts: 618
| | | Our city is not real big on sidewalks, so my DH and I walk up to the church at the corner, walk around their parking lot about 4 or 5 times and come back. My pedometer says we get in about 1.3 miles doing that every night.
I also park on the other side of the building and walk around. At .1 miles, that's .4 miles a day, which adds up to an extra 2 miles a week!
I am a completely non-outdoorsy type person, and can't afford a gym membership. Wish I had a treadmill, but there you are...
Gotta take advantage of what's available!
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Glycemic impact diet
exercise
Metformin 2000 mg
Byetta 5 mcg/2x daily
Enalapril 40 mg
A1C, 5-1-08: 5.6!!
A1C, 2-5-08: 7.4 | 
04-08-2008, 03:42 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Universe, Planet Earth :P
Posts: 924
| | I don't exercise really  I just walk to and from my various transports to and from work... (first have 5 minutes walk to busstop, then walk from bus to train then from train to another train or bus, and then another bus, and then it's the same again in the afternoon, but the other direction) And i guess you could call my work being 8h of weightlifting LOL I lift different sized, different weight boxes all day long... But i don't do exercise just for the heck of it...
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22 years old, diagnosed T1D on october 14th 2004.
On MDI, Novorapid and Levemir, using the NP4
Currently back to pumping with my IR1200, April 2008.
Been using D-tron and Animas IR1200 but prefer the pen | 
04-08-2008, 05:17 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Massachusetts, US
Posts: 375
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Originally Posted by Staceyy | Disco is dead! Rock is Rolling!
Ugh.. Disco .. Oh no... |  | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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