You may manage a full time job, a family, new projects and daily accomplishments. But are you in charge of the most important thing of all: your health?

This article offers some questions to ask yourself, and some tips for taking charge of your diabetes:

Diabetes is a complex disease. It is not like having a broken arm where the doctor sets the bone and you just wait to heal.

Instead you have to take care of yourself every day with limited help from your medical team. In other words, you are the person really in charge of your health.

Some tips include setting long term goals, recognizing the need to change a behavior, and implementing strategies to set that behavior in motion.

If there's one thing that's to be stressed again and again, it's that you are the only one who can truly be responsible for your health, and for recognizing that you deserve the best life possible.

Are you in charge?

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