I am now 3 months into my second year of beating back my own Type II diabetes. 15 months ago, when I was about to turn 62, I decided that I was not going to be a T2 diabetic when I turned 63. Fourteen years of it was enough.
On May 1, 2016 I began. My morning glucose reading was 238. My weight was 261. My blood pressure was 154/120. My A1c was 6.5. Now, 15 months later, my morning blood sugar is between 85 and 100. My weight is 210. My blood pressure is 110/85. My most recent A1c was 5.2. No drugs, no supplements and aside from the most recent physical-no doctors.
The program I built for myself was fairly simple, though I’ve been told that most people would not want to follow it because it is too much work.
The essential elements of it are: No sugars, sweet syrups or any ingredients that end in “ose”. No grain products. Rice, wheat, quinoa, corn are all out. Generally I avoid potatoes as well. I also try and stay away from eating too much fruit.The second part is exercise. I begin my day with a light weight workout. I began with 15 minutes, I now do 42 minutes of free weights every morning. I then do a walk-a dog walk is fine but a 45 minute steady pace walk is better. I then go about my day.
I try to eat no later than 7:30 at night and do not eat again until after 12 the following day-I’m not always as firm about this as I would like to be, but this is what I shoot for.
I do another walk at the end of the day.
The time cost is about 2 hours a day but the results are more than worth it. I feel better. The constant headaches and leg cramps I used to have are now only memories. Stairs and ladders no longer hurt my knees, the sinus infection that dogged me for several years is gone, and when I need to put in a 14 hour day I don’t have a problem. Also my concentration, memory and ability to hold a string of numbers in short term memory have greatly improved.
And the experience of eating a summer fresh peach is more amazing than I have words for.