How a Fitness Nutrition Specialist Can Help You

Although diabetes is often associated with being overweight, especially type 2 diabetes, it's a myth that everyone with diabetes has a high body mass index (BMI). Some people have trouble gaining weight. In fact, unexplained or unintentional weight loss can be a symptom of undiagnosed diabetes.

Issues with weight management center around insulin, a hormone produced by your pancreas. People with diabetes are unable to use or produce enough insulin to transport excess sugar out of their blood and into their cells, where it can be used as energy. This can cause your body to burn its existing fat stores and muscle tissue in order to supply your cells with energy.

If your sugar levels are constantly in flux, your body will continue to chip away at its fat stores, resulting in weight loss.

Diabetes food plans are often geared toward helping people lose, rather than gain, weight. This can make it harder to figure out how to gain weight in a healthy way.

Thus, a Fitness Nutrition Specialist can help you set the right diet and exercise goals for you, as well as answer any questions you may have.