8 Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes Control: How to Improve Your Blood Glucose and Stay Healthy with Type 2 Diabetes »

Laura Hieronymous, M.S.Ed.,A.P.R.N.,B.C.-A.D.M.,

C.D.E. currently owns DiabetesCare &

Communications and has more than 18 years of experience in

diabetes self-management education. She is the coauthor of

the American Diabetes Association’s 101 Tips for a Healthy

Pregnancy with Diabetes (1-58040-130-9) and 101 Tips for

Raising Healthy Kids with Diabetes (1-58040-242-9).

The only week-by-week guide to managing

diabetes and glucose control

8 Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes Control is the

diabetes management plan helps you manage your diabetes. It’s the plan for

when you don’t have a plan.The week-by-week

approach of this book shows you how to put together a health care team, manage medications, understand and implement the basics of meal

planning, improve blood glucose self-monitoring, start an exercise program, and more.

Other books are encyclopedias about diabetes, but 8

Weeks to Maximizing Diabetes Control is structured approach to

improving blood glucose and to managing diabetes

better. Easy-to-read instructions and simple weekly

goals help get you where you need to be—in as

little as eight weeks!

Laura Hieronymous, M.S.Ed.,A.P.R.N.,B.C.-A.D.M.,

C.D.E. currently owns DiabetesCare &

Communications and has more than 18 years of experience in

diabetes self-management education. She is the coauthor of

the American Diabetes Association’s 101 Tips for a Healthy

Pregnancy with Diabetes (1-58040-130-9) and 101 Tips for

Raising Healthy Kids with Diabetes (1-58040-242-9).

Foreword     vii
Introduction     ix
Understanding Diabetes     1
Healthy Eating     7
Being Active-The Magic of Movement     31
Monitoring-Don't Give Up on Excellence     51
Taking Medication-Is It Necessary?     69
Tackling the Problem Head On     91
Positive Steps to Healthy Coping     109
Successful Risk Reduction     129
Conclusion     153
Index     155