Spend minutes to gain months. Spend 30 minutes (2% time) every day to gain 4 months (33% time) every year of Good Health Practice.

This is a really good deal! Every hour spent gains more than 10 hours additional time in Good Health.

Good Health means look good, perform well and feel great.

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Good Health Planning

Maintenance Time
Eventually, Good Health Practice includes moderate exercise 150 minutes every week, averaging about 30 minutes a day. This is time spent in endurance exercise like walking, running or biking or strength training like push-ups or lifting weights. How the time is divided up day by day doesn’t really matter.

Moderate exercise might well add time to all other activities of daily life. Everything else in Good Health Practice is time spent somehow anyway.

Training in Good Health Practice

Initial time spent is discretionary. Since maintenance time is about 30 minutes a day, that’s a reasonable time to aim for. But the amount of time spent is not as important as spending that time every day.

The time it takes to measure and record progress day by day depends on how much you are willing to spend. You can begin by reporting something simple like fasting blood sugar. Reporting just one measurement probably requires no more than 5 or 10 minutes. It will require more time as you report more but you will get good at measuring and reporting as you gain skill from daily repetition. Coaching sessions to review progress probably require no more than 30 minutes a week.

Something recorded every day about Good Health is essential. Also, recording in a Notebook is important. Those notes are essential for successful coaching sessions.

Health-related Quality of Life (HRQOL)

The impact of recording and improving health practices might seem like it’s going to be a nuisance. Or make life unpleasant. It won’t be a nuisance or unpleasant. The experience of overweight adults with type 2 diabetes consistently has been significant improvement in HRQOL.

The Look AHEAD trial of more than 5,000 overweight/obese individuals with type 2 diabetes tells the story. That study reported effects of changing health practice on nutrition, physical activity, mood and mental health for up to 11 years.

The results showed improvement in HRQOL. The greatest improvements were in physical functioning. Also, the greatest changes occurred in those with the poorest function when they entered the program. There was some loss of improvement in those who regained weight. The greatest improvements were enjoyed by those who were most successful in maintaining changes in body weight and physical activity.

Financial Planning

Retirement Savings Accounts

Day-to-day financial expenses make it hard to save for future healthcare and retirement. Very few wage earners have pensions. In fact, the majority of families in the U.S. have less than $1,000 saved and half of all families have nothing saved for retirement.

The median amount for those who have IRAs or 401(k)s is $60,000. The typical amount available at retirement is $600 a month.

What to do?

Some expect to rely on Social Security. Some expect to rely on help from their children. Others expect to just keep working until they can’t.

Then what? Don’t know.

Healthcare Costs In Retirement

Medicare Coverage

Healthcare costs are often higher than anticipated. Medicare covers many healthcare expenses but not all!

The average retiree over 65 years of age will spend about $5,000 a year on healthcare premiums and out-of-pocket expenses.

That doesn’t include the cost of long-term care.

Long-term care

Costs range from $40,000 a year for home healthcare to more than $90,000 a year in a nursing home.

Out-of-pocket healthcare expenses are the biggest risk for outliving your money.

Good Health Is A Good Financial Plan

Potential For Healthcare Saving $

Good health prevents the expenses and distractions of physical and mental illness. Patients with type 2 diabetes at 40 years of age can expect to spend $5,000 more in out-of-pocket expenses every year than others who do not have diabetes.

A patient who has type 2 diabetes at 40 years of age can expect to spend more than $125,000 out-of-pocket by 65 years of age. That would be pretty good to put into retirement savings!

Income And Productivity $

Cost of illness is even greater in other ways than healthcare cost. Illness and disability affect performance and productivity. They reduce ability to earn income and ability to manage personal, family and social commitments.

Ultimately, illness and disability cut short the years for generating income and managing commitments.

The greatest benefit of a Good Health Plan is the opportunity for long, rewarding, independent living with financial security free of huge healthcare expenses.

Action Plan To Reverse Diabetes

Time Getting Started

Making measurements and keeping records is the first task. Everything starts here. How much time spent is what makes this all work.

Begin with measuring and recording what’s already going on. Record blood sugar levels, or blood pressure, or body weight, or steps on pedometer, or medications taken.

Take pictures of meals and snacks. Or describe them. Whatever represents your current health practice.

Plan it, measure it, note it and record it. Doesn’t take long. Maybe 10 minutes a day but it’s on your mind. That’s your executive cognitive function in control.

Also Read: Reverse Diabetes and Maintain Your Brain

What will happen depends on subconscious habitual daily responses against new executive orders. We’ll find out what your brain operating system will allow making measurements and keeping daily records.

Other Time

Some time is well spent reviewing information, becoming educated and building a foundation for motivation to reverse diabetes. The more you know, the better your executive cognitive function can manage your intrinsic habitual responses.

If possible, 1 or 2 hours a week.

Creating social support interactions with family, friends and community groups also is time well spent. It’s a help to learn from others, to show them what you can do. Share the pleasure of success and support each other when things don’t seem to be going so well.

Digital Equipment $ Costs

Personal computers, mobile units and internet charges are expensive. However, most of us already have digital equipment and internet account subscriptions required for digital technology services.

Food And Fitness Diary Apps (Free and Premium $ Accounts)

The best way to start adjusting the metabolic balance of current health practice is to analyze your calorie intake and calorie demands of physical activity. With information about what needs to be changed, you can make your own decisions about how to make improvements.

Information on calorie content of food and calorie expenditure with exercise can be found on Apps available on the internet. Most have free basic accounts and subscription premium accounts. Examples are:
• MyFitnessPal
• SparkPeople

Commercial Weight Loss Programs

Specific menu suggestions and recipes can be purchased. Calorie content and nutrient categories are already figured out for you.

Programs that provide advice on food to buy include:
• Weight Watchers

Programs that deliver food to your home include:
• Jenny Craig
• Nutrisystem
• South Beach Diet

Discretionary $ Costs

Discretionary costs are for items you buy that enhance good nutrition and good physical activity for you.

Anything you can afford that helps you set and follow your action plan, is worth the money you spend on it. But hardly anything is absolutely necessary beyond PC, mobile unit and internet account.

These include things like:
• gym membership
• exercise equipment
• special food choices

Good Health Planning May Be Even More Important Than Financial Planning

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