Point of No Return

I am a 66 years old lady, 7 years out from gastric sleeve surgery. At that time, I lost almost 100 pounds quickly. It was unsettling and funnily enough, not very satisfying. But I thought I had done the best thing for my health. I have a family history of severe gastric reflux. I was on the point that gastric doctors years before the sleeve began, being used for weight loss, offered a “sleeve” like procedure to help stop the reflux. Blood sugars were starting to average higher; 120-140, insomnia was constant, could not lose weight no matter how much I exercised or how little I ate. The sleeve solved none of this, as the weight started to come back and my blood sugars were now spiking higher. By the way, the only thing I could keep down after the sleeve surgery was crackers. This continued for the following years. I think the humiliation of developing type 2 diabetes really took me over the top. I remember being in the doctor’s office and having to admit to it, and seeing the test results just brought me so low. My husband struggled with diabetes, in denial of type two, until he became a brittle, insulin-dependent diabetic. Diabetes ruled our life. Now my three sons all have type 2. I felt I had let them down somehow. Despair set in and I say with much dismay that it was taking me down. By accident, I stumbled on Dr. Berg on YouTube. The title was “Insulin Resistance”. Watched it and it changed everything for me. For the first time in my whole life, I started eating fats, eggs without guilt, meat, lots of vegetables. I’ve never been a meat-eater, and having a gastric sleeve makes raw veg and salads very hard. I can’t eat much at a time, so 8-10 cups a day is not possible. But the very interesting part is the intermittent fasting. How very much that resonates with me. I was used to being up during the night with grinding hunger pains that I was usually satisfied with peanut butter crackers. That first YouTube video started me searching out more. In two months I have lost 30 pounds, a couple of inches around my waist, cravings for carbs(crackers, toast) are gone. And my blood sugar this morning was perfectly normal and stays that way. The best part yet, my whole family has embraced Healthy Keto. That’s a good thing since I cook for everyone, but they were very much on board to try it, now committed to it. My younger brother came to live with us and started a month ago. He’s lost 30 pounds and two pants sizes. And his blood sugars all returned to normal. None of us take the Metformin prescribed, just healthy keto eating. In hindsight, if I had known all of this information I could have avoided polycystic disease that almost cost me, two babies. Both were born extremely premature, years of high blood pressure beta-blockers that have destroyed my body in other ways, and years of humiliation over my inability to control my weight. We really do DON’T HAVE TO LIVE THIS WAY. My years of dealing with the medical world for myself and advocating for my family through life-threatening, devastating health problems have taught me that they are trained to TREAT your condition, not Heal it. Most do not have the time to delve further than the moment’s crisis. I really thank Dr. Berg for devoting so much of his time, his life to truly helping. I thank my Lord God for bringing that YouTube video to my attention at one of the lowest points of my life.