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My job requires I travel quite a bit. I do
about 100,000 miles a year.

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It’s tempting sometimes on the road to sort
of decide that the rules at home that we all

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follow with good diabetes practice don’t
really apply anymore.

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You start eating things that you normally
wouldn’t eat at home and you eat them in

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quantities that you wouldn’t normally eat.

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When I go on the road a lot and I go to business
meetings, I don’t always have a lot of choice

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over what I get served and the foods that
are put in front of me.

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That requires that you make some decisions
about what you want to eat, how much you want

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to eat, whether you want to choose one item
over another.

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One thing I like to do is take a little bit
of time to carefully read the menu. I don’t

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look at the first choice and say okay, give
me this. I actually try to look and see are

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there decisions and choices I can make that
will help me reduce the amount of calories

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I’m eating and eat foods that have less
of a bang on my glucose.

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You may ask for things to be prepared differently.
You may ask them to halve something. You may

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ask them to make substitutions.

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When I go to restaurants that I’m not familiar
with, I’ll ask for a to-go box and have

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them divide my meal before they bring it out.

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That way I can look at what I get and decide
whether it’s enough for me to eat and I

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usually have a snack for later on when I need
it.

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It’s important when you’re on the road
to maintain some good physical activity.

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Most hotels have a gymnasium or someplace
that you can do exercise.

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Other times you can just decide to walk or
take advantage of the place you’re at, to

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take a look around.

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Like all of us, my desire is to have my diabetes
at the best possible control and that extends

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to when I’m on the road and the situation
sometimes is a little bit more challenging.

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I want to do it for all the reasons that all
of us want to do it; I want the best possible

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health.

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If you have diabetes and you’re living with
this disease, you need good education. And

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a great place to go is the website www.yourdiabetesinfo.org.

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I’m David Marrero and I manage my diabetes--even
on the go.