Living the Life
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2023 Arkansas Queen, Donna Dodrill began doing this after she retired in 2013.
What is regular exercise?
What is being over medicated?
While educated, Esther Manz was not this.
What is a business woman.
The percentage that the risk of getting diabetes is dropped in people at high risk for diabetes when they lost weight through healthy eating and physical activity.
What is 60%?
Note: This is even higher (71%) in people over 60.
Discrimination based on body size.
What is sizeism or weight stigma?
While this worked for Donna, she didn't feel it was sustainable.
What is the keto diet?
There is relatively little of this being done in how drastic weight loss effects drug doses.
What is research?
From the start, TOPS was all about providing these.
What are support and education?
What is blood glucose or blood sugar?
Find a primary care provider who views obesity as this rather than a simple lack of will power.
What is a complex medical condition?
Determined to keep the pounds away, Donna understands that maintaining weight loss is this.
What is a lifelong journey?
Even if you drop twenty-five pounds, you may want to do this.
What is ask you doctor if you need to think about your meds?
Esther set up TOPS so that it could do this.
What is continue without her?
If your body doesn't make enough or use this properly, glucose stays in your blood and doesn't reach your cells.
What is insulin?
An aspect that is affected when feeling shamed and judged leads to self-isolation and increased loneliness.
What is quality of life?
This is important, no matter what the number on the scale.
What is loving yourself?
Each of these has separate and different effects on the body and how it acts to prescription medicine.
What are weight loss approaches?
Esther Manz wanted TOPS to be governed by a board of directors and a group of these who would have a say on important issues.
Who are voting members, now called delegates?
What is prediabetes?
Weight cycling or the pattern of gaining and losing weight across time, often through strict/extreme dieting.
What is disordered eating?
This is important to losing weight and keeping it off.
What is chapter support?
This is important because drug can accumulate in your body, and the rate at which medications clears your system changes both as your weight comes down and your dosages change.
What is vigilance?
By moving almost half of the original 1952 Articles of Incorporation to the bylaws in 2000, major changes could take place at a regular board of directors meeting with having the vote of these people.
Who are voting members or delegates?
Note: Recent progress has been made to bring TOPS back toward the original concepts to increase member input based on delegates sharing their knowledge of the organization.
Free to eligible participants, this year-long program provides the opportunity to work with a lifestyle coach in person or online to build healthy habits.
What is the CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP)?
When a physician sees you only as your weight or BMI making it harder to build a relationship of trust and respect.
What is inadequate medical care relation to size stigma?