Too Easy to Not Prioritize Your Health
Joaquin knew how to work hard. With a background in the Marine Corps and law enforcement, he was well acquainted with discipline. Despite this, he often wasn’t so good at staying on top of his own self-care practices like diet and exercise. “We find every excuse not to take better care of our health,” he said – and I’m sure you can relate.
Joaquin got to a point where he was overweight, he was regularly congested or sick, and his feet had started tingling. When he started getting headaches that were so bad he couldn’t get out of bed, he knew there was something wrong. He went to the doctor and got testing done that confirmed he had developed type 2 diabetes.
Searching for Answers
He attended diabetes support group classes provided by his physician, but he didn’t feel like they gave him the information that he needed. Joaquin wasn’t interested in just managing his blood sugar, he wanted to understand what had caused him to become diabetic and how to reverse the disease process.
He started doing his own research and found a video sharing this very information. He thought, “these are the people who can help me learn to turn my health around,” and signed up for the next available Mastering Diabetes retreat.
Permission to Eat Potatoes
Previously, everything he’d found regarding how to eat when you are living with diabetes said to reduce or remove carbohydrates from your diet. Learning that he could eat tons of fruit, along with high carbohydrate foods like rice, beans, and potatoes, was the best news for Joaquin.
On the first morning of the retreat, he ate 135g of carbohydrate in his breakfast, followed by a little exercise. When he checked his blood sugar and saw that it was lower than it had been before eating breakfast, he was thrilled. He saw how much his health could improve if he followed the guidelines being taught to him.
Easier Than Expected
Still, he was surprised by how easy the lifestyle changes were to make. Today, he stocks his fridge full of plant-based whole foods that are both healthy and delicious. He hasn’t felt deprived at all. He eats as much as he wants, and genuinely enjoys the meals. Each week, he prepares staple foods like rice, potatoes, beans and lentils, and big pots of soup that he can eat throughout the week so that there is always something ready for him to grab when he is hungry. His wife, daughter, and brother even joined him in the dietary changes as well after being inspired by the improvements they witnessed in Joaquin’s health.
Dropping Over 40 pounds and 4 Pant Sizes
What were those improvements? In less than 4 months, Joaquin’s A1c dropped from 7.1% to 5.7%. He also lost 46 pounds and dropped from a pant size 44 (fitting tightly) to a size 40 (fitting loosely). He no longer has headaches or neuropathy, and he has tons of energy.
Header | May 2017 | September 2017 |
|---|---|---|
A1c | 7.1% | 5.7% |
Total Cholesterol | 157 mg/dL | 110 mg/dL |
LDL Cholesterol | 86 mg/dL | 57 mg/dL |
HDL Cholesterol | 54 mg/dL | 35 mg/dL |
Weight | 286 lb | 240 lb |
Blood Pressure Medication (daily dose) | 25mg Hydrochlorothiazide | None |
His advice? “Just try it! If you don’t like it, you can stop. But you won’t stop, because this is the most positive influence on your life you’ll ever have.”
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