Calculate Your Ideal Weight
Reaching and maintaining a healthy weight is important in maintaining diabetes. Lose weight if you need to. Extra weight makes it harder to control blood glucose.
Losing weight may help control your blood glucose so much that you may even be able to cut down on your insulin or diabetes pills. Sometimes, losing just 5-7% of your body weight is enough to improve diabetes control. For someone who is 200 pounds, this is a weight loss of just 10-15 pounds.
Losing weight may help control your blood glucose so much that you may even be able to cut down on your insulin or diabetes pills. Sometimes, losing just 5-7% of your body weight is enough to improve diabetes control. For someone who is 200 pounds, this is a weight loss of just 10-15 pounds.
Use the tool below to find your ideal weight, based on your height.
Maintaining a healthy weight may reduce the risk of chronic disease like heart disease and stroke.
Always consult your doctor before you begin a weight loss plan.
This information is a summary from "Diabetes A to Z" and is provided with the permission of the American Diabetes Association.
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