I was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and beat it. I spent nine days in ICU with my lungs full of blood clots and beat it. My blood pressure was high and my cholesterol too. I paid all those signs no attention; no changing my life for any of that.
I watched diabetes take my Dad. It killed him slowly; one organ at the time. I held his hand as he took his last breath. But I didn't change anything.
I wasn't much on the workouts or watching what I ate.
On Nov 1st 2016 I got the diabetes diagnoses. You guessed, time to change!
No more ice cream or jelly beans. I exercise every day, usually a good hard-fast 2 mile walk almost every day, eat a balanced low carb diet (lots of veggies & chicken), hardly any bread (mostly all wheat), no more booze (occasional beer) and have dropped 60 pounds. The even better news is that the doc just cut my Diabetes med in half, my blood pressure med in half and my HCTZ out all together. I've gone from a snug 42 pant to a loose 38. My A1C has dropped from an 8.7 to a 5,8.
I don't say all this to brag on myself. I say it to get to that guy who was like me. I've been lucky to survive. Will you be that lucky too? Don't bet on it!
I watched diabetes take my Dad. It killed him slowly; one organ at the time. I held his hand as he took his last breath. But I didn't change anything.
I wasn't much on the workouts or watching what I ate.
On Nov 1st 2016 I got the diabetes diagnoses. You guessed, time to change!
No more ice cream or jelly beans. I exercise every day, usually a good hard-fast 2 mile walk almost every day, eat a balanced low carb diet (lots of veggies & chicken), hardly any bread (mostly all wheat), no more booze (occasional beer) and have dropped 60 pounds. The even better news is that the doc just cut my Diabetes med in half, my blood pressure med in half and my HCTZ out all together. I've gone from a snug 42 pant to a loose 38. My A1C has dropped from an 8.7 to a 5,8.
I don't say all this to brag on myself. I say it to get to that guy who was like me. I've been lucky to survive. Will you be that lucky too? Don't bet on it!
