I began living the CHIP lifestyle on June 7, 2005. At that time, my weight was 282 lbs. I was taking medications for Type II diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Even with those medications, my blood sugar was 130 and blood pressure was 145/91.
After just three weeks, my weight was 271, blood sugar 112, and blood pressure 116/75. My daily readings were faxed to my doctor, and two days later, his receptionist called and said the doctor was "ecstatic" over the results. He said I could cut my diabetes medicine in half.
With the CHIP program, I eat as much as I want at breakfast and lunch and have a light supper and have never experienced hunger between meals, except when my blood sugar would go too low.
Six weeks into the program, my weight was 263 (down 19 lbs.), blood sugar (with ½ med) was 124, and blood pressure varied from 105/71 to 118/74. After eight weeks of this lifestyle change, my medications for blood pressure and cholesterol ran out, and my doctor chose not to renew my prescriptions. And because my blood sugar levels were frequently going low, he also said I could drop the diabetes medication.
At 14 weeks, I was scheduled for a check up. By that time, I had been off my medications for cholesterol, blood pressure, and diabetes for a month. Lab tests were run, and the results are shown in the chart below.
The first numbers are my medical readings prior to starting blood pressure and cholesterol medications. The second numbers are my readings after 14 weeks on the lifestyle program, losing 35 lbs., and not having taken the medications during the last month.
At the start of the lifestyle change, I was a Type II diabetic and my fasting blood sugar was in the 120’s and 130’s with medication. At my check up, my doctor said my sugar level (now mostly in the lower 130’s without medication) was low enough to not need medication. He also said that if I lost another 20 lbs. of weight, I would no longer have any problem with diabetes, and he predicted that within six more months on the program, that would probably happen. He also said I could test just once a day now (before breakfast) unless I suspect my sugar level is too low or too high.
Update November 2006: I have been off the three medications for over a year, and my numbers are still looking great. In June, after one year of living the CHIP lifestyle, I had lost 61 lbs. I also ran out of diabetes test strips in June and was told by the VA Medical Center that I don’t qualify to receive them; I am no longer diabetic."And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32)
The CHIP lifestyle is giving me freedom from disease and helping me get back to good health again.
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