• Introduction to diabetes
• Treatment & your health
• Eating well
• Keeping active
• Why is it important to you?
• So what's stopping you?
• What counts as activity
• Activities to get you started
• Top tips for being active
• Strenuous sports
• Physical activity and altitude
• Sports drinks
• Smoking
• Managing your weight
• Treatments
• Structured Education
• Monitoring your health
• Living with diabetes
• What care to expect
• Complications
• Food and recipes
• Educational events
• Your stories
• My life

What counts as activity

Every form of physical activity counts.  The recommended minimum
amount of activity for:
• adults is 30 minutes on at least five days of the week (that’s only 2.5 hours out of a 168 hour week)
• children is one hour a day.

We are all recommended to achieve at least 10,000 steps a day – why not consider buying a pedometer to log how many steps you take?

Activity can be spread out through the day into bite-size chunks.

Before you start

Diabetes does not mean that you can’t become more active. However, it does mean that there are a few things to think about before you start… like your levels of blood glucose, monitoring your blood glucose levels, your diabetes treatment, and the possibility of having a hypo.  Before you start any new
activity talk to your doctor, especially if you:

• are taking any medications for diabetes or heart disease
• have any complications of diabetes like foot or eye problems
• are not sure which activities suit you
• have any conditions that may restrict your mobility or ability to be active, eg high blood pressure, angina, osteoporosis, asthma or have had a heart attack. Your healthcare team can advise you about what activities are suitable for your condition.