Caring for Yourself
As an individual with diabetes, it can be hard to manage your life: exercise, blood-sugar levels, diet - sometimes it can seem like too much. That’s where we come in. TDI offers a range of training sessions in nutritional and medical management.

• Download the Diabetes Self-Management Training brochure in English or Spanish.
• Download the Self-Management Training Class schedule.

A Guide to Control and Manage Your Diabetes is a 10-hour, 5-lesson program that includes the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management and the ADA’s Clinical Recommendations. Every lesson within this text builds upon the previous lesson, allowing you, the patient , to learn and apply the skills necessary to improving your life with diabetes and self-management of the disease. This program empowers individuals to become effective self-managers and to make healthier lifestyle choices in their everyday life.

The book is divided into 5 lessons:

Lesson 1: Changing Behaviors
Stress Management
Facts About Diabetes
Types of Diabetes
Insulin
Planning Meals

Lesson 2: Effects of Disease on the Body
Hypoglycemia
Hyperglycemia
Complications of Diabetes
Carbohydrates

Lesson 3: Diabetes and Health Management
Medication Label Reading
Skin Care
Alcohol
Cholesterol

Lesson 4: Monitoring Diabetes
Reading Nutrition Facts Labels
Successful Shopping
Grocery Lists
Healthy Eating and Budget

Lesson 5: Developing an Exercise Program
Taking Your Pulse
Exercise Records
Travel
Food/Exercise Logs

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