Thriving with Diabetes : Learn How to Take Charge of Your Body to Balance Your Sugars and Improve Your Lifelong Health - Featuring a 4-Step Plan for Long-Lasting Success!

**Learn to Actively Manage Your Diabetes for a Healthy and Happy Life** __Thriving with Diabetes__ empowers you to take charge of your diabetes, so you don't just deal with your symptoms, but change the way you think to improve your health, happiness, and quality of life. Through a simple four-step process, you'll learn how to intuitively understand your blood sugars and what causes both good and bad numbers. This proactive approach results in the ability to manage diabetes personally, not just by a set of notes from the doctor. Step 1: Lower the Highs Step 2: Limit the Lows Step 3: Use Your Best to Fix the Rest Step 4: Play with Your Diabetes Written by Dr. Paul Rosman and David Edelman, co-founder of Diabetes Daily, __Thriving with Diabetes__ is not just about eating properly (although that's certainly part of it!), but also about managing the daily challenges of physical activity, stress, pain, sleep patterns, and other life events that have a major, but underappreciated, impact on blood sugar trends. You'll also pinpoint your favorite meals and activities and use them as multipliers of success—focusing on the positive rather than the negative. The result is immediate and satisfying improvements to total health, both physically and mentally! "__Thriving with Diabetes__ has the answers you need. This comprehensive and easy-to-read guide is a great resource for people with diabetes, their families, and their caregivers. Everything we know about diabetes, testing, and medications is changing, and this up-to-date guide tells you exactly what you need to know." - __Neal Barnard, M.D., author of Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes__ "Rather than regurgitate the same old formulas and definitions, __Thriving with Diabetes__ helps us navigate the challenges of living day-in and day-out with this relentless and unpredictable chronic condition. Dr. Rosman and David Edelman show us that surviving diabetes isn't good enough. Thriving is truly where it's at." - __Gary Scheiner M.S., CDE, author of Think Like A Pancreas,and the 2014 American Association of Diabetes Educators' Diabetes Educator of the Year__ "Tired of feeling confused and frustrated with your diabetes? __Thriving with Diabetes__ demystifies why blood sugars change, and gives you the tools you need to help you manage them successfully." - __William Polonsky, Ph.D., CDE, co-founder and president of the Behavioral Diabetes Institute__ Work with your body and learn to manage your diabetes for a healthy and happy life. Thriving with Diabetes empowers you to take charge of your diabetes, so you don't just deal with your symptoms, but change the way you think to improve your health, happiness, and quality of life. Through a simple five-step process, diabetes sufferers learn how to intuitively understand their blood sugars and what causes both good and bad numbers. This proactive approach results in the ability to manage diabetes personally, not just by a set of notes from the doctor. Written by Dr. Paul Rosman and David Edelman, co-founder of Diabetes Daily, Thriving with Diabetes is not just about eating joyful, satisfying, and diabetes-friendly meals (although that's certainly part of it!), but also about managing the daily challenges of physical activity, stress, pain, sleep patterns, and other life events that have a major, but underappreciated, impact on blood sugar trends. You'll also pinpoint your favorite meals and activities and use them as multipliers of success--focusing on the positive rather than the negative . The result is immediate and satisfying improvements to total health, both physically and mentally! Tune in to your self A personal journey Be captain of your ship. Let go of "control" to go with the flow ; The thriving action plan ; Take charge with knowledge The 4-step action plan. Step 1 : lower the highs ; Step 2 : limit the lows ; Step 3 : use your best to fix the rest ; Step 4 : play with your diabetes Thrive for life. Lead your health care team ; Change your habits ; Manage your emotions ; Banish burnout and diabetes stress ; Build your support network Resources. Appendix A. Letter to your health care provider ; Appendix B. Medications that lower blood sugar ; Appendix C. Worksheets.