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Episode 99 - Wrestling With Diabetes Part 3 · My Third Place Pod

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And Now for Something Completely Different.
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Ladies and gentlemen, for those who are still listening on this
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glorious day, you have made it to the Grand standing episode.
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That is number 99. You know who I am.
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You know what I'm about by now? You definitely know what this
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show is called but just in case you were new here, allow me to
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welcome you to the show where I usually hide from my real life
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responsibilities to record and come to you from under the
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apron. This is it y'all.
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This is what I've been working on for an entire year and four
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months. Now this is the epilogue of my
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so-called podcast that when I first started this journey I
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just want to talk about wrestling.
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I just wanted to ramble and tell you the shit that was going on
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weekly and have a weekly episode about WWE NXT.
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Some aw, and some premium live. Vents, but along the way, I got
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a friend involved and we watched old wrestlemanias.
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Then about twelve episodes later, we established the fact
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that we were going to keep it going because I heard rumors
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that podcast tend to die after 12 episodes, which motivated me
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even more because I wanted to prove them wrong.
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It was this week last year that we decided to change the name
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because our old name was just basic it was called All Things
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wrestling, and everyone had a similar name to it.
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So we changed the name and with the show is about And we added
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in two episodes a week. What could possibly go wrong.
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Well, it was a mid-june that I started to run out of gas.
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I was already on empty and I was putting into extra episodes a
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week. Michael had got on Hiatus due to
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law school. Yeah, my co-host and I thought I
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had another coat in the wings but that ended up being null and
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void. So I had to do was best for my
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mental health and out to take a break from the podcast.
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Just for a few months but you know I didn't think I was coming
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back and only took a month or so before I got back on the Rings
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again and decided that I wanted to talk about my health, a fresh
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rehaul of the show. So to speak.
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I interviewed a couple of friends went solo and appeared
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on other podcast but evidently the appeared on mine and we got
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to know a few of them. That more appearances from
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Michael. Thanks to his law school for
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letting us borrow him for a few months.
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And I got to make a few new segments along the way, one of,
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which was a Halloween special with wrestlers appearing in the
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horror movies, which inspired the candle makers, at Dart
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re-creations to make one for that specific episode, we got
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requests to watch out. Old wrestling, premium live
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event shows and review them more will be coming soon.
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Got to Rome in this on the Attitude Era during episodes of
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young Rock, got to watch for the very first time and review the
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no-holds-barred movie from the 80s.
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Finally was able to get another one of my high school friends
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and a big supporter of the podcast to come onto the show.
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And for the first time ever, I interviewed and streamed the
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podcast live and got more friends and supporters of the
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podcast due to that. Honestly, I couldn't have asked
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for a better year but alas all's well that ends.
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Well I'm not ending the show not without doing episode 100, but
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before I do that, I must take a break and clear, the mind last
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year was rough during that break.
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We don't want to do that to happen again.
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We don't want to go back to that basically.
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So in order to avoid that, I'm going to take a few weeks break
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and come back with more awesome episodes.
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But Before I go, I must celebrate.
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It's what I do on this show, we celebrate Avery major Milestone,
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no matter how small it is, from being listened to, by a small
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group of friends, too. Wait for it, worldwide to having
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up to 4600, downloads 105 followers on Spotify and still
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being listened to worldwide. Hey, we're big in the
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Netherlands. Shout out to my Netherlands
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people out there. I appreciate you guys to all my
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Netherlands fans out there. I just would like to say but
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dunked To you all. You think I'm stopping now.
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I'm not, you can't stop me now. No, you can't.
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I'm having such a good time that I don't want to stop at all.
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I digress, but I like doing that.
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And you all love when I do that. But you can tell episode 99
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isn't a Wrestling episode. Since I started this season,
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with talking about my mental health, my diabetes, and all
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that. I figure what a way to end the
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night. He's with more mental health,
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and diabetes stuff. Also a huge deal about this
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episode that's on the anniversary of when I went to
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the hospital to have been told that I had diabetes.
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So depending on what they are listening to this episode, this
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is it. This is that week, this is the
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week two years ago. Did I was diagnosed with type 2
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diabetes? so with that, in mind, Let's
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celebrate, let's celebrate with some cake sugar.
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Free cake. That is
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podcasts. All right, so I had to take a
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listen to part 1 and 2. Before I started this episode
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because I wanted to see where I left off and what I missed I
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apparently didn't edit part 1, right?
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It seems, it happens. So in part to where I left off
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with the type of medications, I was using and what I was
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prescribed with the exception of the, one of the vitamins I
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started using So once again metformin twice a day listen
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look Pro for the high blood pressure at term, a certain for
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high cholesterol and two types of insulin.
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One was used three times a day before a meal and then the other
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with used at night I've course forgot to mention, they gave me
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a blood glucose monitor and I you did every day.
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Again I was told to check my blood sugar after I got up in
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the morning before breakfast and one hour after every meal at
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first best thing was over the top at 400.
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Something I thought I was doing something wrong but I was also
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told I need to wait a few days for my blood to get back.
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Back to normal regulate, I was also told by my doctor, I need
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to see an optometrist for my eyes and endocrinologist, which
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is a diabetes doctor, but both appointments were done in May in
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those following weeks. Okay, y'all got to realize this
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just happened at the very end of April, so it's getting to that
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point that I wasn't celebrating anything.
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At all, I took a month off a social media because I was Sick
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and didn't get back until the second or third week of May
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because I couldn't see anything. I was blind more on that in a
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few. The endocrinologist gave me a
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lot of paperwork to go through what I needed to know, what I
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need to change in my diet. She prescribed a few other pill,
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which I don't use it anymore. But she also kept pushing that
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could have died. And this was a blessing that I
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didn't. I get it, the second chance at
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life, but no offense to her on that and all and whatever you
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believe in. But I wasn't about to go down
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with the last visual thing, being a SpongeBob marathon, that
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wasn't what I wanted. The last thing to see before I
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died, of course, I didn't tell her that but I've told people
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this and I'm telling you this She also told me I needed to
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record the outcome of every number on my glucose monitor,
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that was going to be hard. Considering I hate writing
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things down until I found an app for that.
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Enter my sugar M Ys U gr and F created by people with diabetes
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for people with diabetes. I love this app so much at
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first, I was just entering my numbers 302 289, 275 and such
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and that number was always high which was so sad at first
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because it sap had a little monster that would always be
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encouraging you if you log in the lower number or sad for you,
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if you're logged in any of those hired numbers.
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But remember, I had to do this three to four times a day, every
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day. Here's one of the best things on
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this app, though. Logged in the morning, after I
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woke up and then I started tinkering with the app, checking
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its benefits, I can log in my breakfast, my lunch, my snack,
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my dinner. And if I logged in before sleep,
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A person have it so this thing was my new toy for a while.
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You can connect your Google fit or apple health tracker to track
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your Fitness data? I didn't use either but I did
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use my Fitbit to connect with it more on the Fitbit stuff as well
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in the few which we will come back to After a few days, my
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sugar allowed me to read my analytics and figure out what
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worked and what didn't? So just like clockwork every
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day. Wake up, check my sugar, dial it
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in to the app pills breakfast. At first with me, try to figure
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out what worked, same with snacks, lunch and dinner, and
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check my sugar with right before I go to bed.
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Now, as far as the analytics for the app goes, I'm a big numbers
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person because of this, the dashboard in my sugar.
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App shows you an analysis of all the relevant data point as well
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as patterns in your blood sugar. Simply swipe to the left and
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access your diabetes data from the previous 714 30 or 90 days.
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I pretty much lived and breathed on this thing.
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And I used it for those 90 days because my next hospital visit
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was in 90 days. So before every meal I would
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check to see if it was on the app and it would tell me
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everything I need to know about it from the carbs to the sugars.
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So some of them worked for my benefit While others I learned
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from those they were teachable moment.
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And finally let me tell you a little bit of the are estimated
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hba1c part of the app. The app built an estimated hba1c
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value. Once you've logged enough,
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blusher values, you can view you, your ehb A1C.
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So that work for me because after three days of using it, my
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anxiety was on high but that's because the first 15 days were
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me trying to learn and get used to my new Norm.
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So when I saw how it looked after 90 days, I went to my
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endocrinologist. I was confident going in and I
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was extremely happy coming out. I'm going to have a link to the
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app and the show notes so if you're going through something
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similar as myself and don't know what to do or work through yet
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and you're listening you can check out the app and be on your
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way to having a great A1C. Checkup, I think we need to get
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to the meals and what worked and what didn't?
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There were a lot of things that didn't work and I thought I
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would but I guess I was wrong. The first 15 days.
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I said earlier, we're meet learning teachable moments the
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following weekend after happened at threw away, everything.
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My fridge and pantry and started over everything that I owned was
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either low carb, or no sugar at all.
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I went from drinking Pepsi. Three times a day to three cases
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of bottled water. Gators are low carb a wraps
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Splenda sugar for my coffee, lots of vegetables, lots of carb
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bread, low carb, bread and lots of meat.
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I basically ate the vegetables for breakfast.
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I went back into fitness beast mode.
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I remembered anything I did, while I was trying to lose the
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weight of yours back, that meant drinking green, smoothies all
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over again, but that wasn't a every day, because I still
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needed to make myself a salad for dinner for lunch, no matter
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how expensive things where I bought, low carb, keto bread.
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Those are the ones that have eight grams of fibers or sugar
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and 30. Therese.
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I bought a lot of them not knowing that they would
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eventually get moldy if you don't use them right away.
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So when I did need them for sandwiches or make myself eggs
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with avocado, I told you I experimented on some of these as
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for snacks. First, let me tell you how I
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felt about cauliflower vegetables.
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I hated them. I don't want to be near them but
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then I tried cauliflower stocks chips crackers, everything
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cauliflower out, hyping them up to anyone who will listen to me.
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So I invested in a lot of that at the time as well, a low-carb
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snacks, sterile sugar pudding, nutrigrain Jello peanuts.
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Okay, so let me tell you, when I told my mom, she sent me a
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package of nothing. But Blue, Diamond almonds,
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because that's where she worked. So she wanted me to eat healthy
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snacks as well. Thanks Mom.
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Appreciate you. I wasn't ordering out.
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Like I used to do anymore. I was eating in, I bulked up
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bought on a lot of groceries because of the pandemic.
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So I figured I needed to cook. So, I did research.
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I experimented with seasonings, I cooked my meal.
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Have you ever heard of balsamic vinaigrette pork chops?
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Everything. Bagel sea chicken.
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No me neither. I studied up on a lot of things.
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Got into a lot of websites that have food for diabetics, and as
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it was happening, I said to myself that, this will be the
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first. And only time I will ever be
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admitted to the hospital. I'll say it again.
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This would be the first and only time I will ever be admitted
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into the hospital. For something that serious that
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is. I totally forgot in blank that
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I've broken my arm and dislocated some stuff.
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When I was young, you know, the jacket Sarah, well, you know,
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prior to that. Also, the flying elbow drop from
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the couch on to the wrestling buddies.
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Oh yeah, brother. That didn't go so well for the
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bunch of married. He said you don't say that.
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listening. When I said I did a lot of
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research, some of that research came from friends as well.
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I had to come back to social media, some point.
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And so when I did, I went back to the places where I usually
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hung out at I have to do with news on where I was and the
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reason it took me to second week of May with, because I was
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blind. I could see but I have I had my
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phone. I would have it close to my face
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and squint my eyes because it was so damn hard to see.
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I was told by my doctor is not to be alarmed that I would need
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to see an optometrist and I did My eyes were sensitive to light
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at first. I had to use my laptop or just
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about everything and that's when the messages kept coming in with
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well, wishes, you know, the usual I'm here.
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If you need someone to talk to hope you're doing well, haven't
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seen you in a few days. Blah, blah, blah, get them.
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I get it. I used to say that all the time
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too, but there was just one message particular that caught
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my eye, that caught my attention because not only does she I say
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the same thing everyone else did but she also provided a resource
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and what could help as well as a YouTube video that she created.
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So late last year, when I was going through my mental health
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break, I wanted to change the podcast, include my fight with
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diabetes. I asked this person for
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permission to use her YouTube video as a resource and share it
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with others, as well as interview her.
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If I needed be, I wanted the third part of this segment to
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have her included. It's Y part, 1 and part 2 where
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weeks apart and I'm going to for part 3.
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But other than Things happened. Fortunately, the person that I
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want to interview has since deactivated her account, but I
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saved her messages, just in case this episode became available
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and I wanted to include our conversation.
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So here it is, her name was this day at home?
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Mom loves wine, or Nicola least on her YouTube account and I
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remember she heard the podcast. And follow it on her Spotify.
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So hopefully, if she still listening to it or any of you
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know her and want to tell her about this episode she can send
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me a message at the same place or email me at from under the
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apron at gmail.com. So after I posted my update,
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which was everything that transpired at the hospital, and
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what I was told, Nicole message me with this quote, I know you
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probably have 100 messages to go through, but I wanted you to
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know that I'm here for you. I was diagnosed with type 2 a
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few years ago and it had the same thing happen.
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My sugars were crazy high, and I should have been in a coma.
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As well, it was rough, but I got through it with the help, my
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doctor, and lots of self-care. If you have any questions on
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what to expect or what to eat, please don't hesitate to reach
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out to me. I've got a few years of this
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under my belt and I can assure you, you've got this and quote,
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I, of course, went in for the questions, because why not?
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Not. I asked Nicole.
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If we revision was a big part of this.
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She answered back with quote, yes.
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When I got on my foreman, my vision was actually completely
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cleared up. I've been with glasses since I
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was nine years old and I didn't have to wear glasses at all for
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about two weeks until my blood sugar levels normalized.
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It's totally and completely normal.
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Well, as normal as a side effect from diabetes and quote, I asked
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Nicole about the food Quote, there are so many good food
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options out there, lots of chickens.
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And veggie spaghetti, squash is zero carb bread, avocado eggs,
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bacon, taco salad. There are low carb tortillas out
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there. Cauliflower rice, there's
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substitute for everything out there.
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Unsweetened almond milk, milk is delicious too.
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It's discouraging for a while. I know the ones you get in the
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swing of things. Get easier.
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I've been eating this way for about three and a half years now
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try out eggs and zero carb avocado toast for breakfast, a
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salad, with lots of lunch meat in it and veggies for lunch,
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then kielbasa sausage with zucchini peppers, onions, over
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cauliflower rice. It gets easier.
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I promise and quote, So it's like the time that I decided,
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maybe we should share recipes with one another.
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You know, I asked her to share her meals with me.
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So I have an idea what to make. She sent me a picture what she
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had made the night before. Cauliflower rice topped with
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veggies and a baked fish. You guys it looked amazing.
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Obviously, I went and made that same dish later on, but that
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night, I sent her a picture of what I had made, baked chicken
29:35
with red potatoes. Topped with melted shredded
29:39
cheese, Geez. Hmm, so delish, it felt so
29:44
delicious. Unfortunately, again teachable
29:48
moment because she said, quote, watch the potatoes, they have a
29:54
lot of cars in them, get rid of anything that's white except for
29:58
cauliflower and quote, I got rid of everything that was white, I
30:04
believe in anything that that the only thing that I have white
30:07
was right, that's about it. So I got rid some with mostly
30:14
more of the rice. Yeah, that's about it.
30:20
I told her I bought mostly all keto stuff and low in carbs, a
30:24
lot of vegetables in my freezer wheat bread, which I'm eating
30:30
one slice of cheese wraps for sandwiches, lots of chicken as
30:35
well as beef meat, she says quote they do make low carb,
30:41
bread and zero sugar bread. I found some pretty good joke.
30:46
Car bread, which is nice for sandwiches.
30:49
Lots of veggies and chicken is what we eat.
30:52
Cheese is also a plus, a very big plus.
30:58
Here's a picture of what I made Monday, grilled chicken steamed,
31:02
broccoli with mozzarella roasted purple cauliflower and some
31:06
cherry tomatoes and quote and quote, It looked and tasted
31:13
delicious because obviously I made it and stuff.
31:19
Quote, I made a whole YouTube video about what I eat a long
31:22
time ago, if you like the link to it.
31:25
And quote, I said, yes, I needed to see this video, and she sent
31:34
it to me, and I did watch it. It's about 27 minutes and 48
31:39
seconds. Long, I will have a link to it
31:41
on the show notes so keep an eye out for that.
31:44
I basically learned a lot from this video.
31:48
Oh, Nicole introduces herself. We find out a little bit of her
31:52
background here. Just a tional diabetes when she
31:55
was pregnant. When her weight loss Journey
31:58
started and how it's going up to that point.
32:02
She gave tips on her diet, what she ate with medication, she
32:06
took, how much water she drank with?
32:09
She avoided the workout you was able to do and what motivated
32:14
her I of course, took notes on just about everything she spoke
32:19
about including her cheat meals. The Splurge have a cheat day,
32:27
just do it. Have one day were you splurge?
32:31
And you go out for ice cream, go and do that.
32:34
That's important. That will keep you on track for
32:37
the rest of the week. Schedule, one day a week where
32:41
you eat whatever you want. I went With that, but I did it
32:47
after two weeks, my cheat meals are every two weeks.
32:54
Nicole, finally, concludes the video on her motivation, having
32:57
a support system. Working out, I have the worst
33:01
motivation in the history of ever.
33:05
It is so hard for me to get motivated to do something and
33:08
not necessarily just to start it, but to continue on with it.
33:13
It is so difficult. You need to have a support
33:16
system. You need to have people there
33:19
who are going to hold you accountable.
33:21
So, having a support system is going to Kiki, if you're going
33:24
to choose this sort of diet and the store sort of lifestyle
33:28
change, any kind of exercising, it is so nice to have a friend
33:33
someone that you can rely on and who will hold you accountable
33:37
for exercising and getting it. Done that day, find a marathon,
33:42
find a 5k find something that's going to be fun and trained for
33:48
it. Then it's not exercising, your
33:51
training for something. You have a goal in mind, that is
33:56
so important. Have a goal have something that
34:00
you're running for has something that you're exercising for try
34:04
to get into that dress again or have a goal to get into a size
34:10
16, have a goal in mind and reward yourself when you get to
34:16
it. I'm going to talk about my
34:19
support system and a few, but I wanted to touch more on.
34:21
What means the coal that after Year's Day in 2022.
34:25
I hadn't messaged her since before then, but I know do know.
34:30
She left a comment on my update when I found out my it once in
34:34
July of 2003 one. So I know she was still around,
34:39
rooting for me, but the message I sent her on January 2nd. 2022
34:44
was obviously, of course Happy New Year.
34:49
Update, I'm going back in February to check my A1C, but
34:53
truthfully I've been doing okay. Not too bad, but definitely not
34:58
perfect. I've been doing the same thing,
35:00
I was this past year, but that's not why I'm missing you, you are
35:05
amazing. A definitely motivated me with
35:08
that YouTube video that had joined a Facebook, a few
35:12
Facebook groups for diabetics to tell their story.
35:17
I told him my story and how I From 15.3 to a 6.5.
35:24
A few people message me from there to check what I did and
35:27
how I did it. I told him just about everything
35:30
I did but I also directed them to your video.
35:34
I don't normally check the group anymore since I'm barely on
35:37
there, but I soon will sense that February checkup is coming
35:42
up. You gave me hope last year and I
35:45
extremely thankful for you. I'm also going to make it a
35:49
point to stay active around here again.
35:55
Again, barely heard from her but I know she saw the message and
36:00
has no, she saw my updates because I'll she liked a few of
36:03
them. Every time I got new updates, I
36:08
was sending to her because this was the start of the motivation.
36:12
She was my first support group. So, I felt that she needed to
36:15
know what one member of her support group is going through
36:19
and how she was the motivation for it.
36:22
She messaged back as well and left me comments on my post with
36:26
congrats. Finally, we get to August and we
36:32
all know what was going on with me last year in August, We don't
36:38
do that again around here anymore.
36:41
At the same time, I was planning on episodes and what I should
36:45
talk about on the next episode and this is the idea that came
36:52
about interview people with the same diagnosis as mine or had
36:56
lived it currently loving it or the negative effects it has on
37:00
other people anything to do with it.
37:03
This one, I messaged Nicole with With high, the reason I wanted
37:09
to reach out what's because I've been running this podcast for 6
37:13
months. And the first season was mostly
37:16
about wrestling. I took a break to rest and not
37:20
burn out for about a month and I'm bringing it back for season
37:24
2 and it will be about everything I love and not just
37:27
one topic. I'm going to have a segment
37:29
called wrestling with diabetes, and it's going to be a serious
37:33
with talk about my fight, my struggle and how I overcame.
37:37
Damn it. I of course want to be able to
37:40
mention your video so first I want to ask if it's okay to
37:43
mention your name and how I got it and the link to that video.
37:48
Once I get it rolling and I'm comfortable talking about it, I
37:51
maybe want to interview people, we're get stories from
37:54
like-minded people who have gone through the same situation.
38:00
Nicole responds with quote, yes, link away.
38:07
And I'm always available to interview.
38:09
Even if you don't want, even if you want to do a zoom interview
38:12
and record it, whatever you need and quote, I said thank you.
38:20
You're awesome. You're amazing.
38:23
She says no problem. And from there I was Off to the
38:26
Races to try and get a part 3 with her in it.
38:31
But since then she has deactivated her account and the
38:35
only place I could look her up with YouTube.
38:37
So once again, if you happen to come across this podcast and you
38:42
know, of her or who she is Centrelink, send her my way.
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support groups because I had it for you at the same time.
39:42
Now, during the whole process of me, not being able to read
39:45
anything, dad, include my fifth pitch that Parker earlier.
39:50
In that year, I had joined a group that for some reason, they
39:55
just kept pressing rematch. So when I was out of it that
39:59
week and no updates were coming through from me, they asked I
40:05
responded, weak laughter, what have happened?
40:07
And one of them said that our goal was to do 10K every day.
40:12
I believe we started out as seven or eight of us in that
40:14
group and since then it has dwindled down to maybe six.
40:20
At least six of them to that can remember for people that I knew
40:23
prior and to that I met on there, it started out as a
40:28
competition between each other on who can get the most Epson.
40:35
But then we just started to get to know one another and another
40:41
Enter my fight and my journey to get to a better A1C and that's
40:46
exactly what I did and what they did as well.
40:51
Me getting healthy was partly because of my Fitbit support
40:56
group at done apart. Was because of these awesome
41:01
people that I met on another app.
41:06
Okay, let's just talk about it. I was on Tik-Tok for quite a
41:09
bit. I no longer go there because
41:12
this is what I love doing now, but I still keep in contact with
41:18
a lot of up. Some people there.
41:22
One of those groups involved, me going to the DJ live Timothy to
41:29
his shoes every Thursday night. He would DJ and spend a mix of
41:33
his albums. I joined up in late November and
41:38
the group treated me like family already, it took me a while to
41:43
get what their group was about because they were called the
41:47
cuddle puddle family. Yeah.
41:53
Yeah go ahead and Google with that mean, I'll wait.
41:59
So you see where this feels insane?
42:03
Regardless of the name, they had my back and I realized when one
42:08
person got drunk in the live and started poking.
42:11
Fun of my name to which I didn't think anything of it but others
42:15
got involved and defended me only to find out that they
42:20
didn't like her. Anyway, I'm so when the whole
42:25
thing happened to where I Disappeared, they were checking
42:28
in on me everywhere else yet out on radio, Silent.
42:32
Not because Because I was ignoring them or Costa.
42:37
I would never ghost him. But because I was blind, I
42:42
couldn't see anything. And then when I showed up one
42:47
Thursday, after the whole hospital, visit, I still
42:50
couldn't see anything. They saw my name pop up and I
42:55
heard the DJ, say, my name. So I tried to squint and tell
43:00
them. I'm not ignoring them but I am
43:02
blind. I've been in the hospital will
43:05
update later. They all got the point of that.
43:09
Message in a few people message me later in private to see how I
43:13
was doing. After about a week or so, I was
43:18
able to get into the chat in their lives and everything was
43:21
normal for me. It's when I explained the
43:24
situation to every one of them including the DJ who I messaged,
43:28
Tim privately to let him know what's going on in my life now
43:33
and that I need to work out and such So, DJ tend to Jesus, one
43:39
of my favorite DJs, one of them, and his family, the cuddle
43:44
puddle family were there for me when I needed them and they
43:48
inspired me to kick diabetes ass.
43:53
So here's how every Thursday from that point on till I went
43:57
to go check my A1C in July, DJ T, DJ he loves when I said that
44:02
with play some massive, EDM songs, electronic dance, music,
44:08
anything that would help me up, but that's because I told him to
44:11
play something that will hype me up.
44:14
At the same time, I'm going to work out and do some kickboxing
44:18
workout which I did. so, I would have my Fitbit support group,
44:25
hyping me up, and pushing me to get those steps in every day and
44:29
then I would have the tick tock cuddle puddle, fam, support
44:33
group, hyping me up and DJ Tim shouted, me out of live to make
44:39
sure I'm still alive and running it up, 90 days for 90 days, 90
44:47
days of that working out eating right, staying healthy.
44:55
After all that I got asked what my secret was by those Facebook
44:59
groups. And I said there is no secret.
45:02
You do what you're talk to tells you I did what my
45:06
endocrinologist asked me to do. I ain't right I checked my
45:09
sugars because by June and July there were down to 120 with an
45:14
estimated. It wants the 6.8 So when I went
45:19
to the lab work, so I went so when I went to the lab work and
45:24
later that night, finding out that, my A1C went down to 6.5.
45:29
I celebrated, I was exhausted, I was happy and proud of myself
45:34
but I was exhausted. I finally was able to breathe.
45:39
I went down at partial to kick his ass that even my doctor
45:44
asked what I did and I told her the exact same thing.
45:48
I listen to you. Doc I did everything.
45:51
You asked me and I get it. Not everybody is like that.
45:55
Not everybody has the same determination and I had not
45:58
built that way, because I was determined to never get it.
46:02
When I knew coming in, they'll save numbers.
46:05
My family has it So here we are in July of 2012 16.5, what?
46:13
Now my endocrinologist suggests that I don't take the three
46:18
times a day as well but put me on the nightly want to take in
46:23
the morning as well, keep doing what I'm doing she may have
46:28
taken a pill out and put me on a Guardians which would improve my
46:32
glucose control. She also says, she will see me
46:35
in nine months. Around March.
46:41
All right, so this where I will end this one.
46:44
Hopefully I don't take too long and doing a part for but I want
46:49
to touch on a few different things.
46:51
I shared the 6.5 A1C story in a lot of groups, messages and
46:57
everything and they were all inspired by them.
47:00
I even shared the video Nicole sent me and they to like the
47:05
video. And we're hoping to get to talk
47:06
to her because that ATO inspired.
47:09
A lot of people myself included. Before I go, I want to talk a
47:18
little bit about what this show may become for real.
47:23
This time, I did touch on it a little bit when I would did
47:28
episode 94 wrestling with backers use that.
47:33
I would change the name of the segment to be alone wrestling
47:37
with mental health. This name because in part 4 I
47:41
will talk about mental health and how it affected me later
47:44
that year and that's a diabetic. Like I said earlier, this show,
47:49
it's not all about wrestling. It's about bringing awareness to
47:53
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47:55
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48:00
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