{"id":115922,"date":"2009-12-30T12:50:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T17:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/diabetes\/47103-diabetes-stregnth-training-managed.html"},"modified":"2009-12-30T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T17:50:57","slug":"diabetes-stregnth-training-and-managed-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/115922","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes, stregnth training, and managed weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>So I am a few weeks in knowing that I have Diabetes (confirmed on Monday) and one thing I have noticed during this period is I have lost some significant muscle mass, especially in my shoulders (I had pretty broad shoulders) and in my calves. Seems the hyperglycemia has taken it&#8217;s toll on my body in that arena, and I have lost 15+ pounds in the past couple weeks (probably a lot of that muscle).<\/p>\n<p>So I am about to start a regiment of exercise and weight training. My doctor says full steam ahead, and I have worked with weights in the past, but should I be focusing on the area where I have noticeable muscle loss first? <\/p>\n<p>Also with my more rapid weight loss should I be adding more calories in my diet to try to equalize the rapid weight loss. Right now I am consuming 2200-2300 calories per day and on essentially a zone diet.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I am a few weeks in knowing that I have Diabetes (confirmed on Monday) and one thing I have noticed during this period is I have lost some significant muscle mass, especially in my shoulders (I had pretty broad shoulders) and in my calves. Seems the hyperglycemia has taken it&#8217;s toll on my body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}