Hello, dear one!
Before I lay out the three steps for a permanent “goodbye” to type 2 diabetes, I want to share my personal story. Perhaps it will help you get a sense of why I chose to go against my background training as a registered nurse dealing with it.
I was still out in the field visiting patients at their homes in the spring of 2015. This day was as sunny and honey-sweet as any California spring day. After lunch and as I was walking toward my appointment, I first noticed a little shaky sensation in my hands, and then my legs became so heavy that they eventually stopped moving.
I consciously held on to the handles of my blue nursing roller bag and let my body fall gently to the ground. The last thing I saw was the crispy blue sky peeking through the leaves of a sycamore tree.
When I regained my consciousness, I was surrounded by a few strangers and was transported into an ambulance.
It turned out that I had undiagnosed type 2 diabetes!
The next day, as I sat in my primary care physician’s office, she gave me a quick-fix instruction: “You will need to take Metformin daily now.”
What? Long-term daily prescribed medicine?
Suddenly, I saw images of my future self: I’m freaking out because I forgot to take the morning pill. I’m on the phone begging my doctor’s office to call the pharmacy for refills. I’m counting pills in my little pillbox right before my dream vacation.
Hell NO!
Those images had been my mother’s reality for 30-plus years! That was her story. What if I could write a new story with a happy ending, with the same diagnosis?
I looked straight into my doctor’s eyes and delivered my medical prophecy, “I will not take any long-term prescribed medication for as long as I live.”
I didn’t know how to reverse my diagnosis at that time, but subjugating myself to some external and synthetic chemicals on a long-term basis? Not a chance!
Now I’m leading you to STEP ONE to reverse type 2 diabetes: A thought!
Let me ask you a question: “What will the majority of people do when their doctors, with all the good intentions, advise them to take a long-term prescription medicine for their diseases?”
Do you get it? They almost always without hesitation, confidently follow someone else’s instruction, sticking to the daily pills or insulin injections, or both.
Why? Because they’ve downloaded science-worshiping software from their parents, teachers, and social influencers. The social media and propaganda have brainwashed its population to regard doctors or science as the equivalent power of Life Force, which you may refer to as God, Universe, Creator, or Infinite intelligence. I call it my Holy Spirit.
We, humans, are social animals and tend to follow each other, instead of thinking on our own. That’s why Henry Ford said, “Thinking is the hardest kind of work — which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”
In this case, all you need is to think about it, and the HOPE will come to you effortlessly.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2020), More than 34 million Americans have diabetes, which is nearly 11% of the US population.
The American Journal of Managed Care 2018 published a statement: Every 17 seconds, an American is diagnosed with diabetes.
American Diabetes Association (ADA) showed the statistics for 2020: There are 1.5 million new cases of diabetes in the United States each year.
However, do you know only 5%-10% of these patients were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, which is not reversible? Then, what about the rest of 90-95% of diagnosed patients? They have reversible type 2 diabetes!
But wait.
Taking either the oral meds or insulin injection is both costly and cumbersome, why do people want to sacrifice their physical, mental, and financial freedom daily for a reversible disease?
Well, they have accepted the thought that medicine is the only way. And, they believe in a quick fix, the magic power in the pills or injections.
Seeking an alternative solution requires a different mindset.
First, it is possible to reverse type 2 diabetes.
Next, it requires a committed and serious attitude. It has to be okay to sacrifice a favorite TV show, block 60-90 minutes to research possibilities, and have the grit not to follow others, including the doctors, mainstream media narratives, and well-meant friends and family members.
On this note, you will look at this quote with new appreciation.
One of America’s most celebrated poets, Robert Frost, had figured out the benefits of choosing a different path in this poem, The Road Not Taken:
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I took the one less traveled by, and
that has made all the difference.”
Congratulations if you think it’s possible to reverse Type 2 diabetes, you’ve completed Step One.
Now let’s move on to STEP TWO to reverse type 2 diabetes: Actions.
Without actions, everything is an empty talk. However, before taking an action, let’s understand type 2 diabetes in the simplest concept.
When you were born, your body came with a hormone called insulin, which helps carry blood sugar into body cells to be used as fuel.
Type 2 diabetes is basically insulin resistant, a setback for blood sugar to go where it needs to go.
When the blood sugar is not flowing to the right places, your body receives the signal to compensate and produce more blood sugar to function.
Eventually, the overproduction of blood sugar will cause an elevated insulin level. This condition is usually accumulative for years before it’s diagnosed as pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes.
Action One: Common sense!
You’ve now identified a problem: Too much blood sugar in the body.
Solution: Get rid of the excessive “trouble-maker” blood sugar.
Action Two: Research different ways, teachings, and models.
There are more and more resources online today. You’ll be amazed at how many medical professionals like me are all in for medicine independence.
You may also be shocked to discover why the mainstream medical community is eager to keep patients on medicines.
Dr. Sarah Hallberg openly stated in her TED Talks, “ Don’t be fooled. There is a lot of money to be made from keeping you sick.”
She risked her medical license to explain why ADA doesn’t give a conclusion as to how much carbohydrates a diabetic patient should consume in a day. Patients who eat carbs will need meds, and the side effects of meds will cause them to eat more carbs. This vicious circle goes on and on, and the only beneficiary is the companies that profit from the drugs.
As you strip your medical freedom, the big Pharmas are getting fatter.
So why not focus on what you want first!
For me, I implemented the three easiest and cheapest ways.
First, I cut out all desserts and cut down 2/3 of carbohydrates, like pasta, rice, and potatoes. I substituted carbohydrates with good fat, like avocados and coconut oil.
Second, I chose fasting for 12 hours daily, five days a week. I stopped eating at 7 o’clock at night, drank only water, and resumed eating at 7 o’clock the next morning.
Third, I bought a blood sugar monitor. Every morning after I woke up, I tested my blood sugar level on empty stomach. I would have the test kit ready in my bathroom the night before so that I wouldn’t forget.
I was committed daily because I had a burning desire to free myself from taking medicines and reverse this condition.
And, I DID IT, in about four months!
However, my story didn’t end here, rather, it took a downturn.
In the months of achieving a goal to reverse my type 2 diabetes, my daily commitment also invariably challenged my inner beliefs.
Even though my blood sugar returned to normal readings, I was in a mental mess!
Every morning upon waking up, I habitually pricked my finger for a reading. Throughout the day, I was thinking about “sugar, sugar, and more sugar.”
I had become a mental slave to diabetes. I lived in constant uncertainty.
Fortunately, I was aware of my behaviors and reached out for help. What I learned from my coach was that health freedom demands a new level of thinking, which brings me to the last step.
Step Three, the hardest step to reverse type 2 diabetes: Self-actualization!
I was aware that I depended on my external conditions for my inner peace.
If my blood sugar reading was good, I was happy and peaceful. If the reading was high, I would be nervous and stressed out all day.
If I ate a piece of small dessert, I immediately condemned myself as if I was caught stealing goods.
I was my problem, and I sought help.
Through the support of coaching, I embarked upon a self-discovery journey. I was surprised, both in shock and in delight.
Consciously, I wanted to eradicate my disease once and for all, but unconsciously, I was “heavy” with my “shame and blame baggage” from the past.
The disease is no more than a DIS-EASE.
Why I was uneasy? What could have caused my dis-ease?
My facade was quite appealing to the public: A happy housewife with a loving family and a secure profession.
But wait. Underneath my smiles, something insidious was always brewing.
In my particular case, my overproduction of blood sugar was rooted in my deep longing to experience the sweetness of life that I never had as a child, and I still didn’t dare to claim my worthiness.
One hard lesson I had to learn was to forgive the people who hurt me profoundly, and most importantly, to forgive myself for the past that I could not undo.
It was WORK! Like peeling an onion, one layer at a time to “know thy self,” with tears pouring out of my heart to witness my past, acknowledge my truth, and celebrate my wins.
I also had an enlightenment of Jesus’ healing during this period.
How did Jesus go through towns and villages and heal every disease and sickness (Matthew 9:35)?
He didn’t see their sickness “as it was.” He healed them because he saw the wholeness; he saw them for what they “could be.”
I freed myself doing the “self-work” and concluded: I don’t belong to type 2 diabetes!
While my dear mother still faithfully takes her daily diabetic meds, I’ve closed this chapter of my life with a new ending to my story.
Let’s review what I did to write my happy ending story:
I did it by taking step one, believing it was possible to reverse type 2 diabetes.
In step two, I took action strategically and changed my habits and behaviors with sugar intake.
Step three has taken me to a new level of freedom in health, wealth, career, and relationship. After all, these basic areas of life are all correlated.
I wanted to be free from prescribed medications when I began this journey. After completing these three steps, I now want to share my story with people like you who believe there is a possibility to end type 2 diabetes.
I’m leaving you a quote that impacted me to write my ending with type 2 diabetes:
Either you lead your life, or life will lead you.
We have choices, either take the meds or free ourselves with some work.
If you’re open-minded and coachable, think you can commit to a change of lifestyle, feel sick and tired of taking the medications for type 2 diabetes, desire to discover the root causes for any disease, and are willing to allow a nurse since 1994 and a certified coach to love on you, let’s chat.
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