Beating Type 2 Diabetes

Speaker 1: I used to live to eat. Speaker 2: In my last 18 years, I gained about 140 pounds. Speaker 3: Eating sugar and pastries. Speaker 4: A Häagen-Dazs rum raisin. It's like, can I mainline it? Not anymore. Speaker 1: I learned that you are what you eat. Your body's gonna do to you what you do to it. Speaker 5: I never want to have to get to the point of injections. I would like to beat it. I would like to find a way to never be on medication. Speaker 3: Find some way of exercising once or twice a week, and just gradually build up. I'm either walking- Speaker 6: Walking- Speaker 4: Power walk. Speaker 7: Dancing- Speaker 3: Swimming Speaker 4: Lifting weights. Speaker 5: Yoga and meditation Speaker 2: Meditate- Speaker 4: Find an exercise that you like that keeps you motivated. Speaker 6: I controlled it for a long time just by eating healthy foods. Speaker 7: Having steamed food. Speaker 8: Portion control. Speaker 9: Carb counting. Speaker 10: Cookbooks. Speaker 3: Reading labels. Speaker 9: Eating regularly throughout the day. Speaker 3: It changed my diet, and I found by changing the diet, I had a lot more variety. Speaker 6: They told me I would never be off insulin or be off pills. Speaker 7: I then came off metformin, because I had lost all the weight. Speaker 6: And through diet and exercise, I got off everything. I was able to control it. Speaker 4: Now, that's what I'm doing, and I'm really enjoying it. And I love seeing the progress.