Introduction

Hey there. My name is Kris, I'm from Phoenix, AZ and for the last 11 years I've had type 2 diabetes. I've gone through just about every emotion you can imagine, from denial, to self pitty (I'm going to die young thoughts), to maintenance, to education, to ACTION!

Leading up to my diagnosis, I weighed about 250lbs. I lost about 10 lbs for no reason. I had an insatiable thirst and was urinating about 10 times a day. We knew something was wrong so I made an appointment. As these are very common symptoms, the nurse read my blood sugars and I was 350!

When I was first diagnosed I thought it was a death sentence. I couldn't believe I had this disease that has hurt so many people in my family. My Uncle Bobby died from complication from diabetes. All I could do is feel sorry for myself, I wasn't ready to start to help myself.

So I started reading all the books on how to reverse diabetes. There seemed to be a lot of tricks and tips, but nothing really sank in. I visited a nutritionist and she made it seem like low carb and special diets wouldn't really help. She just emphasized a clean well balanced diet, which just pissed me off. I didn't want to hear that, I wanted to hear that if I ate this and that I would get rid of it.

So over the years I've gone through a few different medicines and diets. Nothing really helped too much, I've used metformin, victoza, levemir, and now invocana. I'm currently taking levemir and invocana. Most of these worked but nothing works as well as diet and exercise (damnit!). When I keep my diet in check (low carbs) my blood sugars are much better.

I couple years ago I decided my fat gut was to blame. It's well known that stomach fat is very bad for you and can lead to diabetes, so I've made it my goal to get rid of the gut. I joined a couple gym's and started my weight loss goal. After a year I went from 240 to 214, then back up to 222. I've maintained at 220 from late 2015 through mid 2016.

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I've made yet another decision to lose this belly fat for good. It may reverse my diabetes, it may not. What it will do is make me healthier and hopefully live a longer, more active life with my wife and kids.

I will be posting about my progress, what's worked and what hasn't. Hopefully this blog will help inspire more people out there to get active, lose weight, and hopefully reverse or prevent type 2 diabetes.


            
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