I’ve had many clients come to me who suffer from Type 2 Diabetes, which is almost always weight-induced diabetes. They, like so many people out there, have developed poor eating habits, whether that be eating too much food or not eating enough. To add injury to insult, they are also probably eating at weird times, different times every day.  In turn, this has caused their blood sugar levels to either be too high or too low, and their whole bodies have been thrown out of whack by not consistently receiving nutrients at regular intervals throughout the day. The very first thing I do in these cases is put these individuals on a “nutrition program” that includes small, frequent meals. By eating small, frequent meals, your body is getting a nice supply of blood sugar all day, which not only gives your body energy, but also helps it to regulate itself.  Small, frequent meals also help keep the body in a fat-burning, muscle-sparing anabolic state, rather than a muscle burning catabolic state. When on this small, frequent meals regimen, your blood sugar levels are not crazily spiking up and down, and you aren’t working your pancreas and other internal organs so hard.

At this point, we start incorporating exercise. When you workout, while your body is in an anabolic state, you start to put on lean muscle mass, which increases your metabolism and enables you to burn fat all day long. Imagine that—being able to burn fat all day! For individuals with Type 2 Diabetes, the fat they are now burning is the exact same fat that caused them to develop diabetes in the first place. They are now getting rid of their diabetes by eating small, frequent meals, stabilizing their sugar levels and exercising.

I have seen hundreds of clients with Type 2 Diabetes come through this process. A lot of them have been able to switch to a pill instead of an insulin pump or shot.  I have also seen people who have completely gone off their diabetes medication altogether. Long story short, we have been able to help these individuals reduce their dependence on medication and improve their quality of life, all by adding the right amounts of food and exercise at the right times. If you are suffering from Type 2 Diabetes, or even see the potential in your lifestyle for it to develop, it is never too late to turn it all around.

Remember most importantly, you are not diabetic, you are a person with diabetes!  First, realize you are not your diagnoses.  Then, conqueror it and expel it from your life.  A great quality of life is waiting, are you ready?

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