Movement Hacks for Blood Sugar (Even if You Hate the Gym)
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today we are talking about movement hacks—realistic, everyday ways to support your blood sugar and health goals. We’re exploring how small shifts in daily movement can have a big impact on energy, insulin sensitivity, and overall well-being.
Jess and Wendy break down the science behind how movement helps regulate blood sugar whether it’s a short walk after dinner, a few squats between meetings, or stretching during screen time. You’ll learn how different types of movement (like walking, strength training, or yoga) support your body in different ways and how to find what works best for you.
This episode is packed with practical tips, real-life examples, and evidence-based strategies to help you move in ways that feel realistic, sustainable, and aligned with your health goals.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's episode of the Diabetes Digital podcast. Today we are excited because we're going to talk about movement hacks, which are essentially realistic everyday ways to support your blood sugar and your health goals. And we're excited to talk about this because oftentimes people feel like exercise has to be intense in order |
| 0:23.3 | to have an impact on your health and that's just not the case. There's actually a ton of research |
| 0:27.4 | to support these different movement hacks. Some people will call the movement snacks and it's actually |
| 0:32.6 | a really powerful tool for supporting blood sugar and also it's just a way to care for your body and not to |
| 0:40.6 | necessarily focus on changing it. And when we say movement, we mean the kind of body movement |
| 0:45.6 | that feels good and sustainable, not just structured workouts. So if you feel great doing a |
| 0:51.2 | structured workout, that's totally perfect for you. |
| 0:54.8 | But if you're someone who's like, actually, I want to do something else, maybe walking, dancing, |
| 1:00.3 | stretching, cleaning, or moving your body in a way that feels joyful and helpful in your daily |
| 1:04.7 | life, this episode is for you. |
| 1:07.7 | Welcome to the Diabetes Digital Podcast. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm Wendy. |
| 1:12.9 | And I'm Jess. and we're best friends, |
| 1:18.8 | registered dieticians, and diabetes educators. Through our telehealth platform, DiabetesDigital.co, |
| 1:23.7 | we offer accessible and personalized virtual nutrition counseling for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes. Visit Diabetesdigital.co, that's CO, to book your first appointment. |
| 1:29.5 | We accept insurance and offer affordable self-pay options. |
| 1:32.7 | Now, let's get into today's episode. |
| 1:37.3 | This podcast is brought to you by Hero Bread. |
| 1:40.2 | As dietitians, we're always on the hunt for store-bought foods that we can confidently recommend to our |
| 1:45.3 | patients. But here is the catch anything we recommend has to actually taste good. Life is short, |
| 1:51.7 | and I both live to eat and eat to live. That's when Hero Bread reached out. I'd seen them in stores, |
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