control a snap form most diabetics

It seems that good bg control is a challenge to many diabetics.
We need heroes like Bernstein but better than Bernstein we need ideas
that work for us, the struggling individual. Successful means
keeping complications away by keeping the bgs in the normal range. It
seems that not everyone has attained a harmonious level of control.

The Bernstein model is great if you can at the beginning of your
attempts at control attain his ideal. There must be a more pragmatic
model, one that is flexible even humorous way to attain at he very
least protection from the complications.

It is important for diabetics to have exposure to diabetics who have
attained some kind of nirvana living with diabetes. Control means
keeping an eye on diabetes most of your day and making everything
that happens keep your bgs in the normal zone. What does it take to
motivate the ordinary diabetic to maintain adequate control?

Are you a model, or do you defer to Bernstein. Where is the golden
mean that any diabetic can live with .

Do we need to rethink, reorganize control so that it is easier for
the many to get adequate control?

But maybe we need to struggle without models to find what fits our
unique diabetes, after all the models attain their control by making
what works fit their individual needs. This implies that the
individual needs to experiment with many approaches and continue
experimenting until such time as what works is done without feeling
that the task is too demanding.

At the very least, what is needed for the individual diabetic
struggling for good control is a way that works for most individual
diabetics. We have that ongoing debate in diabetes care between the
extremists and the compromisers who favor progressive control that
improves gradually as in weight training. Since success comes to the
individual who struggles with his own diabetes and ways to make his
own diabetes controllable without getting discouraged and pulled back
by the thought that the process is too demanding. For now most of us
muddle through and not always adequately to keep complications away.

Do any of you have any practical suggestions?

Hoping all of you enjoyed my favorite holiday, thanksgiving!

Joe Posted by: "Joseph Navarro"