Pinkninja
Level 3 Valued Member
Hi everyone,
I am hoping you can give me a bit of advice for my teenage son who is inactive and overweight. He has always been at a healthy weight and always active until the age of about 14 and now he is 17. He spends all of his time after school and on weekends playing on his computer and once a week on a Sunday I convince him to get out and come for a bushwalk with me (usually takes about 30 minutes). I have been using a blood glucose monitor for the last three days and his glucose levels are sometimes in the pre diabetes range and sometimes normal. I am sticking to taking it after he has fasted (which seems healthy range) but 2 hours after eating sometimes goes high but not too high. It makes me think he might be heading down the path to type 2 diabetes which his grandfather has.
Anyway, thats some information that I will take to the doctor.
For now though I am hoping you can share with me whether you have or are going through a life with diabetes or high blood sugar and what exercises you do to maintain a healthy sugar level and also healthy weight?
As he is 17, I dont know how to approach the idea of him having to lose weight - and I dont know what type of exercise to suggest that a guy that age would enjoy. I personally like running, lifting weights and going bushwalking but when I ask what kind of exercise he would like to do he just says 'Dunno'.
Do you think lifting weights for about 20 minutes a day would be a reasonably good exercise? He does have about 10kg of excess weight to shift as well. I think for him it needs to be quick exercise that he could do around home and not too complicated or technical. But, as Im not a teenage boy I dont really know where to start.
Please, if there is anything helpful that you could pass on, I would be absolutely grateful.
I am hoping you can give me a bit of advice for my teenage son who is inactive and overweight. He has always been at a healthy weight and always active until the age of about 14 and now he is 17. He spends all of his time after school and on weekends playing on his computer and once a week on a Sunday I convince him to get out and come for a bushwalk with me (usually takes about 30 minutes). I have been using a blood glucose monitor for the last three days and his glucose levels are sometimes in the pre diabetes range and sometimes normal. I am sticking to taking it after he has fasted (which seems healthy range) but 2 hours after eating sometimes goes high but not too high. It makes me think he might be heading down the path to type 2 diabetes which his grandfather has.
Anyway, thats some information that I will take to the doctor.
For now though I am hoping you can share with me whether you have or are going through a life with diabetes or high blood sugar and what exercises you do to maintain a healthy sugar level and also healthy weight?
As he is 17, I dont know how to approach the idea of him having to lose weight - and I dont know what type of exercise to suggest that a guy that age would enjoy. I personally like running, lifting weights and going bushwalking but when I ask what kind of exercise he would like to do he just says 'Dunno'.
Do you think lifting weights for about 20 minutes a day would be a reasonably good exercise? He does have about 10kg of excess weight to shift as well. I think for him it needs to be quick exercise that he could do around home and not too complicated or technical. But, as Im not a teenage boy I dont really know where to start.
Please, if there is anything helpful that you could pass on, I would be absolutely grateful.