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Witness a family's collective journey toward vitality as we uncover the layers of adopting a new dietary lifestyle, complete with its hurdles and high points. You'll hear about my own passage from a meat-focused diet to one that celebrates plant-powered nourishment, ignited by a desire to nurture my body back to health. We'll also wade into the refreshing waters of exercise innovation, sharing how the humble vibration plate has become an unexpected ally in our quest for fitness. Embark on this episode not just to hear a story of personal triumph, but to be swept up in the laughter, love, and legacy of a family's unwavering commitment to total well-being. Join us, and perhaps you'll be inspired to cultivate your own garden of health and happiness.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome back to let's Talk About Sex
with me, your host, stephanieSmith.
I am here today with a specialguest.
I have to read I did putsomething together because I
love this.
Now everyone knows that I talkabout.
Sex is better when you'rehealthy.
So this is my vibe a day keepsthe doctor away, incorporated
(00:24):
with hello, you need to eat goodtoo.
So I mean they just they gohand in hand, kind of that's my
take.
So get ready to meet anabsolute powerhouse, the one,
the only one-thumb wonder, who'sbeen slaying challenges like
they're going out of style.
(00:44):
She's battled flesh-eatingbacteria and set it packing, and
now she's giving type 2diabetes a run for its money.
She's the queen of resilience,the empress of empowerment and
the Duchess of determination.
Armed with just one thumb but aheart of gold.
(01:06):
She's here to share herincredible journey of triumph
and tenacity.
Get ready for a rollercoasterride of inspiration and laughter
.
This is my sister, cassie Moore.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Hello, that was awesome.
I mean thank you, that's great.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It's a good thing that our family totally laughs
about the one-thumb and you knowso many people go.
You just talk so calmly aboutit and just, and I'm like, well,
if you saw how our family tookit and how she did and her
husband embraced it and the kidsand all of that, it had to be
(01:47):
that because it was such atraumatic experience.
So that's why, yes, today wecan laugh about it.
So, thumbs up, cass, there yougo, and she gets that one nail
done.
It's just awesome.
And it's green, see, minorgreen too for St Patty's Day,
yay, yes.
(02:08):
So we have to say slonche istonche, which is health and
wealth, and Gaelic, very nice,yes, learning a little bit of
Irish here, okay.
So let me just say the Westerndiet has gots to go, it's gots
to go.
So today we're going to.
(02:30):
You know, it's funny.
Hypocrite said let food be thymedicine.
Okay, and I love this Chineseproverb she who takes medicine
and neglects to diet waste theskill of the doctor.
Wow, I like those two.
(02:52):
And so here we go.
Let's start from the beginning.
Like what went through yourmind the day you got your
diagnosis of type two diabetes.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I freaked out, totally freaked out, because all
I could think about and I knowit may seem irrational, but for
me it isn't All I can thinkabout is more amputations.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh, wow, and that's so true.
That's what can happen.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The fear just gripped me yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Wow, I know.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's pretty, I am chilled.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, like I have chills, like oh my God, I didn't
even think of that, but wow.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I know that's not the only side effect or the only
health ramification of type twodiabetes, but for me that was
the one that stuck out and theeyes of the text, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Wow, yeah.
So after that, what made you?
What was it?
What made you?
What was the first thought thatcame to mind?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I need to figure out how to not allow this to
progress to that point where I'mfacing more amputations.
So I went on a journey to findhealthy ways to eat, started
monitoring my blood sugar At thetime I was still at the
pre-diabetes stage, so I feltlike I could, you know, get
(04:25):
healthy and keep control of this.
I won't ever go full-blown andmy fear of further amputations
won't be realized and I spent alot, many years trying all kinds
of diets, all kinds of ways youknow to lose weight, and
nothing worked Absolutelynothing worked.
I was able to keep my bloodsugar in some sort of control,
(04:49):
but until about three years ago,and then it just went
cat-ing-walk-this and I haven'tbeen able to control it since.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
So let's just say, how many years have you been on
this journey?
15.
15 years.
You were told that.
Yeah, okay, and youramputations were 25 years ago,
right, 26 this year.
Yeah, so 10 years after that.
And you've been struggling withthat for 15 years in your mind
(05:22):
about your amputations.
Oh my God, what am I going todo?
Trying different things,different things, wow, okay.
So what then?
Was that specific moment thatsaid I've got to change my life?
I mean, what was it that youdecided to?
I know you've been doing allthese different diets, but
something radically changedrecently.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Last May I had my blood work done and my A1C was
5.8 and had gone.
So I found an article thattalked about reducing your
carbohydrates to 50 grams a dayno more 10 a meal.
So I went for six months on anextremely restrictive
(06:06):
carbohydrate, low fat diet,cutting out anything that had
carbs in it and only eatingprotein and vegetables.
That was it.
It was tough.
I mean, at six months it wastough eating that way and I was
really excited in November tohave my blood work done because
(06:29):
I figured I'd been working sohard for six months and when my
A1C came back and I had jumpedanother two points to 6.0, I
just lost it.
I just collapsed inward and ourson and daughter-in-law came
for Thanksgiving and they hadjust gone vegetarian and they
(06:52):
looked amazing.
They looked healthy.
Our son, who struggled withacne his face was completely
clear, she was two weeks awayfrom giving birth and looked so
amazing.
And so we talked about whatthey were doing and because of
(07:13):
the numbers the 6.0, and I wasfreaking out I decided to do a
little research and he hadpointed me to a Netflix
documentary called how to Liveto be a Hundred.
It talked about the blue zones.
So I started watching that andfrom there I kind of went down a
(07:34):
radical and I discovered ForksOver Nights, which is another
documentary on.
You can watch it on theinternet or on 2V.
And then I discovered MasteringDiabetes.
So I spent a week afterThanksgiving just doing the
research on whole food,plant-based eating, what that
(07:58):
meant, what it would do for thediabetes, for all of the other
heart, liver, kidney issues andthen December 1st I just made
that decision that this was whatI was going to try.
I had tried everything else.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So tell us what, for those of us who might not know
what whole foods, because Ididn't tell you.
Told me.
But what does that mean?
Whole foods, plant?
To me it sounds like, oh my God, it's like it's nothing.
But so let us take away thismisconception that people have
about whole foods plant-based.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
A whole food, plant-based diet prioritizes
plant food and minimizesprocessed food and animal
products.
It is not necessarily a setdiet, it's more of a lifestyle.
It's not a quote unquote diet.
Plant-based diets can varydepending on the extent to which
(09:03):
you decide you're going toinclude animal products in your
diet.
For me, it's none right now.
The basic principles of aplant-based diet is minimally
processed foods Sorry, bugemphasizes whole, minimally
(09:23):
processed foods, limits andavoids animal products, focuses
on plants, including vegetables,fruits, whole grains, legumes,
seeds and nuts, which make upthe majority of what you eat.
And it excludes refined foodsand added sugars, white flour
(09:45):
and any processed oil.
So we don't do any oil, anysugar, just all plants, fruits,
vegetables, whole grains.
And it gets confused a lot withvegan and vegetarian and though
(10:07):
they're similar in some ways,these diets are not the same.
They are very different.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Sorry, mike, we have this air thing going on so you
might hear me do a little clearouts.
Okay, now, still, that soundshorrible.
So how did you kick off yournew journey with that?
I mean, I know, well, let'sjust go back to what it meant to
(10:39):
really do that.
Why did you decide to go wholefoods, plant-based?
I know that you've watchedthese things, but what did you
find inside of that, so that wecan kind of give a little bit of
a nugget for people to go andwatch these Netflix series,
because they will learn a lot?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I think the most important thing was all the
science behind eating whole food, plant-based.
Yes.
How we can reverse diabetes Yay, that's what got me.
It can help reverse or evencurtail, stop the progression of
(11:22):
heart disease.
Alzheimer's I have, you know,because of getting sick.
I have issues with my kidneys.
It can help heal my kidneys.
I've got fatty liver diseasefrom the diabetes and through
all that I went through withgetting sick.
It can help heal that.
I've got heart issues.
It can reverse heart disease.
(11:44):
That was incredible, yes.
And the cancer that's huge itis.
We can be born with cancergenes.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Which we are, you and I are.
We found this out, yes.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But a whole food, plant-based diet doesn't feed
the genes where animal productsand dairy actually feed those
cancer cells.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
The science proves it .
I mean everything that thescience proves the way of eating
the whole foods, plant-basedversus the animal.
You know, diet it's carnivore,yeah, I just I've heard so many
people say that that's such agreat way to go.
And then now, after watchingthe Netflix series the twin
(12:36):
experiment I know you're on, youknow that I like that one that
you told me to go and watch, andI've watched a few others and
then did my own research.
It's incredible and we canreverse all of our health issues
by ourselves.
Okay, with purely diet.
(12:56):
And what has happened, andespecially with that Netflix
series, that I learned was oneto 2% of our cancer and dementia
is caused by our genes and therest of it is by what we intake.
So all the processed food, thefried foods, the oils, the meats
because if you go and look, 80%of milk is casein and casein is
(13:21):
cancer causing and it's all ineven meat.
I have friends that even I'vebeen trying to.
I'm like you know they lovetheir meat and they're oh well,
I get grass, fat beef that comesfrom the grass, they eat it and
then it's even like they theymassage it.
All this stuff.
(13:41):
I'm like, okay, so I did somemore research.
I'm like, well, that's probablya good thing, okay, well, that
all meat has casein in it, allmeat, all fish, I don't care if
it comes from wherever, it allhas casein and casein is cancer
causing.
And that's the thing that peopleneed to realize is that we're
(14:03):
actually and the world has beendeveloped these McDonald's.
I'm not bashing on anythingbecause we're not changing
everyone's thinking.
This is not going to changeeveryone's thinking, but this
will change those that arereally at their wits end of
maybe some health issues thatthey can't go anywhere else,
like you have been.
(14:23):
And even let's just say evenyou going on the whole foods,
plant based diet, you still havehad a little bit of issues.
Okay, so let's talk about that,because you still couldn't get
your, your blood sugars to theplace that you needed it to go
to, and that's why you turn tothe diabetes, that's why you
(14:47):
turn to Mastery diabetes.
So please tell us about whatthey told you about diet.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
But I've read the book and everything that they
talked about in our firstsession was exactly what I read
in the book.
And what changed for me withworking with a coach was just
small tweaks to my diet, becauseI was already eating whole food
, plant based, but with withprediabetes, with diabetes, it's
(15:23):
important that you eat lessthan 30 grams of fat a day,
specifically less than 10 or 10or less per meal.
So here I was, I was eatingless than 30 a day, but my
breakfast was my smoothie, whichhad 20.
Okay, I had my flax seed and Iput all of my supplements, you
(15:50):
know flax seed, chia seeds, hempseeds, wheat germ, all of that
so I could get it all in mysmoothie, and so it was like 20
grams of fat, but then the restof the day I ate less than 10.
So I thought I was pretty good,yeah, yeah.
So just that tweak we're nowdoing.
(16:10):
We're I'm doing my chia seedsand my flax seeds and I'm using
that Sprinkle over the fruit,which I hadn't thought of.
It's been amazing.
My blood sugars are stabilizingand I'm going on.
Tuesday will be two weeks andalready I'm seeing lower blood
sugars, more stability than Ihave, and and I've you know I'm
(16:34):
keep losing, I keep losingweight, so it's been a good
thing.
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We are going to get into.
How did you jump off that cliffand get into it?
But first, you just had yourblood work done, yes, and we
just got the results, and Ireally want this before.
It kind of is a slam dunk forme, you know what I mean.
It kind of like nails it for mefor a lot of things and I think
it might hit it for people.
So why don't you talk aboutyour recent blood test and when
(17:04):
you get it and what the resultswere?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So November, end of November, I know, just like I
still do a half dance and inNovember I had the blood work
done and it was 6.0.
November, December 1st, Istarted Whole Foods.
So it's three months on WholeFoods and the blood work done
again and the result was 5.4.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
That's awesome.
We dropped it.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, 6 to 5.4.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's a big deal, so huge deal, yeah, and that's
only in December, january, rightFebruary.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So now you're doing your new, okay, exactly.
So how long is that?
Three months, so then afterthat.
So then can you imagine whatit's going to be like?
Yeah, I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
How about your other levels?
Everything else was good.
Everything else was good.
Yeah, my cholesterol is still alittle high, but you know
that's because it was alreadyhigh with, you know, having
diabetes.
It's dropped, though,significantly.
I think in May it was 256 andnow it's 186.
(18:31):
Oh, that's huge.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Because my body doesn't work normally.
You know, everything is alittle off.
It's just going to take alittle longer for the
cholesterol to drop down under100, which is where we want it
Under 200.
Well, my cholesterol is alreadyunder 200, because that's what
the total cholesterol it's myHDL, no, my LDL, that's still
(19:01):
over 100.
It's just 126, so I'm not thatfar off.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, yeah.
What is your goal for your A1C?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Well, 4.8 to 5.6 is normal.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh, okay, so there you go, you went into normal
range.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I went into normal.
So the goal now that my A1C isin a normal range wonderful.
But that doesn't mean I havereversed diabetes or
pre-diabetes.
I haven't.
They say that it takes about ayear at having a low A1C.
With your numbers, you know,your daily numbers being stable.
(19:50):
You can actually then say Ihave reversed diabetes.
So my goal now is to help healmy kidneys, my livers, my heart,
my brain.
That's the goal.
I've got my number down great,but I have all the other little
(20:10):
pieces that I need to startfocusing on.
How do I help heal my liver,kestrel, kestrel packs, what can
I do for my kidneys, you know,and my heart, and get my
cholesterol down and focus moreon how do I what foods do I need
(20:31):
to eat to really help in thenext three months, focus on
dropping that cholesterol downto the safe range for a diabetic
?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Okay.
So the reason why I wanted toget those numbers out and then
be able to like say, how did youjump off that cliff to kick off
this?
Because those I want to officethis my sister and her husband
are avid hunters and fishermen.
People fisher ladies and thisis what they do for like their
(21:06):
whole life.
So to go from, you know, nothaving meat I mean so you guys
were all about meat andbarbecuing and marinating and
smoking for hours and days, andyou guys have that set up Okay,
(21:27):
outside, and to go from that tonot was probably a household, a
big work.
I mean, a lot of stuff happenedin the house, I'm sure right,
and you and Dan right.
So how did you do it?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well, I just after doing the research, seeing that
it's possible that I couldreverse the diabetes, I jumped
Dan, I decided and did it.
Dan said oh no, no, no, no, no,no.
And I said fine, I'll eat andprepare the meals, set a big
salad, which you have no problemwith, and then you can just eat
(22:05):
your meat.
After I started to feel so goodand I said you know, can you
please just watch this forksover nights documentary, just so
you can see where I'm comingfrom, so you can at least
understand what I'm doing andwhy I'm doing it.
(22:25):
Okay, please.
So he did.
Now this was after he had madewhat are those things called he
old pork?
No, it wasn't pulled pork, itwas carne asadas.
(22:45):
He made carne asadas, smokedthe pork for two days with
pineapple and they gorgedthemselves, him and William, for
a couple of days.
And so he wasn't.
When he, when he was started towatch this documentary, he was
feeling pretty crappy becausethey had eaten so much, and so
(23:07):
he watched, started to watch it,and in 20 minutes he comes out
to me and says okay, I got it,let's do it.
That was it.
He was like I get it because hehas so many physical issues,
you know, high blood pressure,bad knees, bad shoulders, aches
(23:27):
and pains, arthritis he has allthis physical stuff that's going
on with him and so and he wasfeeling so awful that day when
he watched it and that was it hejust said let's do it.
So we did, and when we started Isaid, okay, well, let's just
(23:48):
use, I want to lose this weightthat I've gone on.
And I said, okay, well, thenwhat we'll do is we'll go
through a weight loss stagewhere we'll lose whatever weight
and when you get to the pointwhere you want, then we can add
stuff back in.
So it won't be forever.
You won't.
You'll, you know, don't have togo the rest of your life not
eating meat because he iscarnivore and yeah, and we just
(24:12):
started and he's had tri-tipwraps.
We've had company over and youknow I have my vegetarian meal
and everyone's eaten tri-tipwraps, or we've actually had
company over where we didn't eatany we ate what our normal meal
is and made them something.
We made them fish or we madethem, you know, pasta with
(24:34):
halibut and crab and and wedidn't eat it.
But you know, now he's down what?
35 pounds, so he's starting toadd a little bit in?
I'm not, yet I don't feel aneed to.
I don't really.
My taste buds have changed sodrastically that I'm enjoying so
(24:55):
much what I'm eating that I'mnot.
I am having one little craving,and that's fish and chips.
Stands, fish and chips.
That's not the only thing I'mcraving, but not so much that
I'm going to eat it yet.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
So switching gears can be really tough.
Okay, it can be really tough.
I mean people.
You know, when I talk to peopleabout this, they're like, oh, I
don't think so.
So what hurdles did you runinto that?
Did you have to jump over thatyou could talk to other people
about?
You know what I mean.
(25:32):
To help them, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Actually didn't run into any hurdles, because the
fear I had of more imputationswas my motivation.
So for me, because that feargripped me was constantly there,
I didn't, I just made thedecision and did it.
(25:58):
Okay, I did and.
But I know, like other peoplein our circle that have had, who
have thought about changing orwho are, you know, considering
going whole food plant based,they are hitting hurdles and
that is giving up the meat andthat's why I told Dan when we
(26:21):
started and he made the decisionto begin, it's not forever, you
can still, and if you don'thave to lose weight you're doing
this just for your health thenyou can have, you know, meat a
few times a month.
Dan read an article that saidyou can have animal products up
(26:42):
to six times a month and it willnot derail you from your whole
food plant based health journey.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So that's awesome.
I'll give a couple of pointers,because I didn't have the fear
gripping that you did, but I hadthe need to do it for myself.
Or, like my blood pressure, Ido have a high LDL, always have
(27:13):
and quite frankly, I mean, I,you know, I love, I'm a foodie,
I love food.
So but what I found once youstarted giving me the diet, the,
you sent me a bunch of recipesand I started making the recipes
and I'm like, oh my God, thisis really good, you know.
(27:35):
And then I startedincorporating my own stuff and
how to make things and, just, Iwas not, I was probably eating
more eggs and then, of course,meat every day or every other
day, and so that's those werethe big changers is no eggs and
but maybe once or twice a monthand now, and meat maybe once a
(27:58):
week, once every two weeks, fishonce every two weeks.
I've changed it.
I hate tofu.
Okay, I cannot stand tofu.
There's something about it inmy mouth and my tongue.
It just makes me feel extremelyweird.
Okay, I can do a lot of otherthings in my mouth, but I can't
(28:19):
do photo.
Sorry about that, okay.
Anyway, so one of the thingsthat I like is falafels.
I make my own falafels.
I love falafels.
I make them for my wraps, I doall these kinds of different
things, you know.
So I love my falafels and I'llgo and get other kinds of you
(28:42):
know.
You know, pasta, the beans, thechickpeas, all that kind of
stuff so flavorful.
You know, I have my girlfriendwho is here over the weekend.
She's a fabulous cook, so she'slike oh, let's do this.
You told me about couscous, soI made couscous, I did a bunch
of stuff.
She added a bunch of stuff.
It was like phenomenal, youknow.
So it's like I think thatpeople think and I will say one
(29:08):
thing that was a game changerfor me too Thinking about having
to chop up all the vegetablesis kind of a pain in the ass.
So you sending me that chopper,I think, has made a huge
difference.
It's not so, oh my God, thisrecipe calls for a whole onion
to be chopped.
You know it's like.
You know it's a lot of work,and so now it's become even
(29:31):
easier, and now I'm even makingeven better dishes because of
that, and I make my own salsakind of stuff for my whole grain
chips that I get at Costco andI.
So I do chips.
I do my beet hummus.
I make that every week I do.
I'm kind of a weekly person, soI do.
I do it every other week andthen I have it for the week.
(29:54):
So I do my beet hummus, I do myjuicing, I do my.
I love my beans and I makethose into packages and then I
just pull them out.
So I think I do, I just freezea little bit, I make the full
thing and then I freeze and thenI pull and I swear it's really
been a game changer and it's soeasy.
You know, you go to the farmer'smarket, pick up your vegetables
(30:16):
that you need and, boom, you'reeating it.
And you just have to think andlike, like you said, like it's a
lifestyle change.
I either have to decide that Iwant to get and eat healthier
and be better or I'm going tojust continue to go down that.
I love the saying one of thedoctors on forks over knives you
(30:39):
can either eat your way intoillness or you can eat your way
out of into healthy.
You have the choice.
So that's really how it is andso many of us are, if that,
watching that it's for 23 poundsoverweight the average American
(31:02):
on the Western diet.
We suck here teaching everyoneabout health and we really need
to have a better way of changingeveryone's mind and thinking.
And so last thing I just wantto cover because we have so much
more to cover but we'll do itin another podcast for 30
minutes you can't just do thisalone with diet.
(31:25):
On your American diet, on youryou know the American diabetes,
it says you have to do exercise.
So talk about your, becauseit's not just that, it's
exercise.
So tell me about your exercisejust for a brief moment.
How many times a day are theyrecommending you to keep that?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
To exercise Well, at least you know, four times a
week.
Usually is not by the day, it's, it's, at least you know three
to four times a week.
I've been doing the vibrationplate that you got me started
doing it since last August andbefore two weeks to three weeks
(32:05):
ago I was doing it twice a day,10 minutes in the morning and 10
minutes at night.
And then I saw a YouTube videoby the founders of Mastering
Diabetes and they wererecommending because I was still
struggling with my blood sugar.
This is before I started thecoaching and they said go for a
(32:28):
walk after every meal.
And I'm like okay, well, Ican't really go for a walk For
multiple reasons.
It's constantly pouring downrain here.
And and I my half foot.
You know just that's whatcauses me all my pain.
So I can only spend short, peer, short peer is a time on it.
So I started doing thevibration plate three times a
(32:52):
day.
And how's that working?
It's working out really well.
Now, you know, when I was doingit twice a day, I was up at the
highest level.
So when I right I was at thehighest level five on mine and
so when I went to three times aday, adding that third time, I
(33:13):
went all the way back down tothe beginning to work myself up.
Can't just boom, start doing it.
It has to be gradual becauseyour body has to adjust.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
You realize 10 minutes of that vibration plate,
which is the sessions that itis.
10 minutes equals one hour ofrunning, and if you normally do
not run for an hour on atreadmill then you might not
want to be doing that.
You know, it'll really shakeyou up.
Yeah, I did have someone startwith three times or doing it for
(33:47):
30 minutes and she couldn'twalk for three days.
So it's very important that youdefinitely start out slow doing
the vibration plate andremember what it's doing, and I
will be doing a live, so I'll bedoing lives now and starting
this next week.
Today's my first live at 12, 15.
(34:08):
And so we're going to do Q&A.
So please hop on.
And vibration plates do so much, but they're also something
that you need to beprecautionary and understand and
make sure that you're not just,you know, being crazy.
So but that that's awesome.
So that's helped you with your,you know, exercise after each
(34:29):
meal, and so for two weeksyou've been down how many, how
many pounds since you startedSix and a half pounds.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
That's a lot.
That's a lot and I only weighonce a week.
So because I get obsessive, soyou know, as I said, I'm
gradually increasing thevibration plate from the levels
you know you can go up thelevels and because my back has
improved so much since I startedthe vibration plate Now I've
(35:00):
been in therapy and we've talkedabout that on the other podcast
.
I'm going to start next weekand go back to rowing.
I love rowing and with the, inthe last two weeks I've also
started doing upper bodyworkouts on on my my after my
(35:20):
lunch.
So on my lunch vibration I godown to the number one, actually
, I sit on it and then I do awhole upper body workout.
It's a good workout.
It really works.
The the bat wings, so you knowit's helped me with dropping the
(35:41):
weight, with feeling so good,having so much energy and out
more.
I'm doing more.
I love all the prep work with,so that's also.
I'm doing more around the house, so that's even more activity.
We're starting our garden.
I'm going to be out in thegarden more, so just all the way
around.
The health benefits that we'reexperiencing with eating this
(36:06):
way at this new lifestyle hasjust been phenomenal.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
And I just want to bring back our listeners, who
probably haven't seen maybe someof our other podcasts, my
sister and I together.
But we started this pod.
We started this kind of journeylast summer because of our
mother not doing very well andof course, cassie had her own
journey of the type two diabetes, but my mom wasn't doing well.
So it certainly it kind of likehow jump started things for us.
(36:35):
We were like we got to get herbetter and then in the meantime
we're getting ourselves better,so kind of actually worked out.
And then it's funny becausethen it's become contagious in
the family.
My father, my brother, mysister-in-law, we've got friends
, we've Dan, we've got familymembers, you've got your other
son, I got my boys about readyto jump on it right now.
(36:56):
So it's like you know itbecomes contagious and when you
think of it we're all going tolive longer.
How well do you want to live?
Do you want to live healthy andhappy and vibrant and
peacefully, die quick Boom, ordo you really want to have a
(37:18):
long death of pure illness?
Always to the doctors andpeople taking care of you or
ending up in a nursing home, andto me, I just want to live
happily and healthy and bevibrant.
And you know, good thing, Ilive in California.
I can die at any time I want,if I have dementia and or any
(37:41):
account of other health issue.
But my thing is, why liveunhealthily when you can live
healthily and I feel so good,like my body feels good?
I feel good, I've lost moreweight since doing your.
So I started the vibrationplate that started the weight
loss, then the diet, changing tothe whole foods that helped,
(38:06):
and so it's like everything juststarts jumping and it becomes
pretty easy, I think.
So let's, let's spend everythingelse.
I know we've got other placesto be.
We've definitely have more totalk about with regards to
recipes.
Where do you go to get them?
Let's talk about next timePlaces for people to go.
(38:29):
There's a lot of veganrestaurants and there's ways to
eat vegan when you go out torestaurants.
So I've been learning that andI want to teach people that,
because let's not be sillyenough to think that we're not
going to go out ever.
We're going to go out, so allright.
Well, thanks for joining me,cass.
I'm so glad.
I'm so happy to be part of yourtype do diabetes journey of
(38:52):
really honestly recovering andyou're going to show people that
they can do it too.
That's awesome.
All right, I love you, sister.
Have a good one you too, bye,bye.
Hello and welcome back to let's Talk About Sex
with me, your host, stephanieSmith.
I am here today with a specialguest.
I have to read I did putsomething together because I
love this.
Now everyone knows that I talkabout.
Sex is better when you'rehealthy.
So this is my vibe a day keepsthe doctor away, incorporated
(00:24):
with hello, you need to eat goodtoo.
So I mean they just they gohand in hand, kind of that's my
take.
So get ready to meet anabsolute powerhouse, the one,
the only one-thumb wonder, who'sbeen slaying challenges like
they're going out of style.
(00:44):
She's battled flesh-eatingbacteria and set it packing, and
now she's giving type 2diabetes a run for its money.
She's the queen of resilience,the empress of empowerment and
the Duchess of determination.
Armed with just one thumb but aheart of gold.
(01:06):
She's here to share herincredible journey of triumph
and tenacity.
Get ready for a rollercoasterride of inspiration and laughter
.
This is my sister, cassie Moore.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Hello, that was awesome.
I mean thank you, that's great.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It's a good thing that our family totally laughs
about the one-thumb and you knowso many people go.
You just talk so calmly aboutit and just, and I'm like, well,
if you saw how our family tookit and how she did and her
husband embraced it and the kidsand all of that, it had to be
(01:47):
that because it was such atraumatic experience.
So that's why, yes, today wecan laugh about it.
So, thumbs up, cass, there yougo, and she gets that one nail
done.
It's just awesome.
And it's green, see, minorgreen too for St Patty's Day,
yay, yes.
(02:08):
So we have to say slonche istonche, which is health and
wealth, and Gaelic, very nice,yes, learning a little bit of
Irish here, okay.
So let me just say the Westerndiet has gots to go, it's gots
to go.
So today we're going to.
(02:30):
You know, it's funny.
Hypocrite said let food be thymedicine.
Okay, and I love this Chineseproverb she who takes medicine
and neglects to diet waste theskill of the doctor.
Wow, I like those two.
(02:52):
And so here we go.
Let's start from the beginning.
Like what went through yourmind the day you got your
diagnosis of type two diabetes.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I freaked out, totally freaked out, because all
I could think about and I knowit may seem irrational, but for
me it isn't All I can thinkabout is more amputations.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh, wow, and that's so true.
That's what can happen.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The fear just gripped me yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Wow, I know.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's pretty, I am chilled.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, like I have chills, like oh my God, I didn't
even think of that, but wow.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I know that's not the only side effect or the only
health ramification of type twodiabetes, but for me that was
the one that stuck out and theeyes of the text, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Wow, yeah.
So after that, what made you?
What was it?
What made you?
What was the first thought thatcame to mind?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I need to figure out how to not allow this to
progress to that point where I'mfacing more amputations.
So I went on a journey to findhealthy ways to eat, started
monitoring my blood sugar At thetime I was still at the
pre-diabetes stage, so I feltlike I could, you know, get
(04:25):
healthy and keep control of this.
I won't ever go full-blown andmy fear of further amputations
won't be realized and I spent alot, many years trying all kinds
of diets, all kinds of ways youknow to lose weight, and
nothing worked Absolutelynothing worked.
I was able to keep my bloodsugar in some sort of control,
(04:49):
but until about three years ago,and then it just went
cat-ing-walk-this and I haven'tbeen able to control it since.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
So let's just say, how many years have you been on
this journey?
15.
15 years.
You were told that.
Yeah, okay, and youramputations were 25 years ago,
right, 26 this year.
Yeah, so 10 years after that.
And you've been struggling withthat for 15 years in your mind
(05:22):
about your amputations.
Oh my God, what am I going todo?
Trying different things,different things, wow, okay.
So what then?
Was that specific moment thatsaid I've got to change my life?
I mean, what was it that youdecided to?
I know you've been doing allthese different diets, but
something radically changedrecently.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Last May I had my blood work done and my A1C was
5.8 and had gone.
So I found an article thattalked about reducing your
carbohydrates to 50 grams a dayno more 10 a meal.
So I went for six months on anextremely restrictive
(06:06):
carbohydrate, low fat diet,cutting out anything that had
carbs in it and only eatingprotein and vegetables.
That was it.
It was tough.
I mean, at six months it wastough eating that way and I was
really excited in November tohave my blood work done because
(06:29):
I figured I'd been working sohard for six months and when my
A1C came back and I had jumpedanother two points to 6.0, I
just lost it.
I just collapsed inward and ourson and daughter-in-law came
for Thanksgiving and they hadjust gone vegetarian and they
(06:52):
looked amazing.
They looked healthy.
Our son, who struggled withacne his face was completely
clear, she was two weeks awayfrom giving birth and looked so
amazing.
And so we talked about whatthey were doing and because of
(07:13):
the numbers the 6.0, and I wasfreaking out I decided to do a
little research and he hadpointed me to a Netflix
documentary called how to Liveto be a Hundred.
It talked about the blue zones.
So I started watching that andfrom there I kind of went down a
(07:34):
radical and I discovered ForksOver Nights, which is another
documentary on.
You can watch it on theinternet or on 2V.
And then I discovered MasteringDiabetes.
So I spent a week afterThanksgiving just doing the
research on whole food,plant-based eating, what that
(07:58):
meant, what it would do for thediabetes, for all of the other
heart, liver, kidney issues andthen December 1st I just made
that decision that this was whatI was going to try.
I had tried everything else.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So tell us what, for those of us who might not know
what whole foods, because Ididn't tell you.
Told me.
But what does that mean?
Whole foods, plant?
To me it sounds like, oh my God, it's like it's nothing.
But so let us take away thismisconception that people have
about whole foods plant-based.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
A whole food, plant-based diet prioritizes
plant food and minimizesprocessed food and animal
products.
It is not necessarily a setdiet, it's more of a lifestyle.
It's not a quote unquote diet.
Plant-based diets can varydepending on the extent to which
(09:03):
you decide you're going toinclude animal products in your
diet.
For me, it's none right now.
The basic principles of aplant-based diet is minimally
processed foods Sorry, bugemphasizes whole, minimally
(09:23):
processed foods, limits andavoids animal products, focuses
on plants, including vegetables,fruits, whole grains, legumes,
seeds and nuts, which make upthe majority of what you eat.
And it excludes refined foodsand added sugars, white flour
(09:45):
and any processed oil.
So we don't do any oil, anysugar, just all plants, fruits,
vegetables, whole grains.
And it gets confused a lot withvegan and vegetarian and though
(10:07):
they're similar in some ways,these diets are not the same.
They are very different.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Sorry, mike, we have this air thing going on so you
might hear me do a little clearouts.
Okay, now, still, that soundshorrible.
So how did you kick off yournew journey with that?
I mean, I know, well, let'sjust go back to what it meant to
(10:39):
really do that.
Why did you decide to go wholefoods, plant-based?
I know that you've watchedthese things, but what did you
find inside of that, so that wecan kind of give a little bit of
a nugget for people to go andwatch these Netflix series,
because they will learn a lot?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I think the most important thing was all the
science behind eating whole food, plant-based.
Yes.
How we can reverse diabetes Yay, that's what got me.
It can help reverse or evencurtail, stop the progression of
(11:22):
heart disease.
Alzheimer's I have, you know,because of getting sick.
I have issues with my kidneys.
It can help heal my kidneys.
I've got fatty liver diseasefrom the diabetes and through
all that I went through withgetting sick.
It can help heal that.
I've got heart issues.
It can reverse heart disease.
(11:44):
That was incredible, yes.
And the cancer that's huge itis.
We can be born with cancergenes.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Which we are, you and I are.
We found this out, yes.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But a whole food, plant-based diet doesn't feed
the genes where animal productsand dairy actually feed those
cancer cells.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
The science proves it .
I mean everything that thescience proves the way of eating
the whole foods, plant-basedversus the animal.
You know, diet it's carnivore,yeah, I just I've heard so many
people say that that's such agreat way to go.
And then now, after watchingthe Netflix series the twin
(12:36):
experiment I know you're on, youknow that I like that one that
you told me to go and watch, andI've watched a few others and
then did my own research.
It's incredible and we canreverse all of our health issues
by ourselves.
Okay, with purely diet.
(12:56):
And what has happened, andespecially with that Netflix
series, that I learned was oneto 2% of our cancer and dementia
is caused by our genes and therest of it is by what we intake.
So all the processed food, thefried foods, the oils, the meats
because if you go and look, 80%of milk is casein and casein is
(13:21):
cancer causing and it's all ineven meat.
I have friends that even I'vebeen trying to.
I'm like you know they lovetheir meat and they're oh well,
I get grass, fat beef that comesfrom the grass, they eat it and
then it's even like they theymassage it.
All this stuff.
(13:41):
I'm like, okay, so I did somemore research.
I'm like, well, that's probablya good thing, okay, well, that
all meat has casein in it, allmeat, all fish, I don't care if
it comes from wherever, it allhas casein and casein is cancer
causing.
And that's the thing that peopleneed to realize is that we're
(14:03):
actually and the world has beendeveloped these McDonald's.
I'm not bashing on anythingbecause we're not changing
everyone's thinking.
This is not going to changeeveryone's thinking, but this
will change those that arereally at their wits end of
maybe some health issues thatthey can't go anywhere else,
like you have been.
(14:23):
And even let's just say evenyou going on the whole foods,
plant based diet, you still havehad a little bit of issues.
Okay, so let's talk about that,because you still couldn't get
your, your blood sugars to theplace that you needed it to go
to, and that's why you turn tothe diabetes, that's why you
(14:47):
turn to Mastery diabetes.
So please tell us about whatthey told you about diet.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
But I've read the book and everything that they
talked about in our firstsession was exactly what I read
in the book.
And what changed for me withworking with a coach was just
small tweaks to my diet, becauseI was already eating whole food
, plant based, but with withprediabetes, with diabetes, it's
(15:23):
important that you eat lessthan 30 grams of fat a day,
specifically less than 10 or 10or less per meal.
So here I was, I was eatingless than 30 a day, but my
breakfast was my smoothie, whichhad 20.
Okay, I had my flax seed and Iput all of my supplements, you
(15:50):
know flax seed, chia seeds, hempseeds, wheat germ, all of that
so I could get it all in mysmoothie, and so it was like 20
grams of fat, but then the restof the day I ate less than 10.
So I thought I was pretty good,yeah, yeah.
So just that tweak we're nowdoing.
(16:10):
We're I'm doing my chia seedsand my flax seeds and I'm using
that Sprinkle over the fruit,which I hadn't thought of.
It's been amazing.
My blood sugars are stabilizingand I'm going on.
Tuesday will be two weeks andalready I'm seeing lower blood
sugars, more stability than Ihave, and and I've you know I'm
(16:34):
keep losing, I keep losingweight, so it's been a good
thing.
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We are going to get into.
How did you jump off that cliffand get into it?
But first, you just had yourblood work done, yes, and we
just got the results, and Ireally want this before.
It kind of is a slam dunk forme, you know what I mean.
It kind of like nails it for mefor a lot of things and I think
it might hit it for people.
So why don't you talk aboutyour recent blood test and when
(17:04):
you get it and what the resultswere?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
So November, end of November, I know, just like I
still do a half dance and inNovember I had the blood work
done and it was 6.0.
November, December 1st, Istarted Whole Foods.
So it's three months on WholeFoods and the blood work done
again and the result was 5.4.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
That's awesome.
We dropped it.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, 6 to 5.4.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's a big deal, so huge deal, yeah, and that's
only in December, january, rightFebruary.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So now you're doing your new, okay, exactly.
So how long is that?
Three months, so then afterthat.
So then can you imagine whatit's going to be like?
Yeah, I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
How about your other levels?
Everything else was good.
Everything else was good.
Yeah, my cholesterol is still alittle high, but you know
that's because it was alreadyhigh with, you know, having
diabetes.
It's dropped, though,significantly.
I think in May it was 256 andnow it's 186.
(18:31):
Oh, that's huge.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Because my body doesn't work normally.
You know, everything is alittle off.
It's just going to take alittle longer for the
cholesterol to drop down under100, which is where we want it
Under 200.
Well, my cholesterol is alreadyunder 200, because that's what
the total cholesterol it's myHDL, no, my LDL, that's still
(19:01):
over 100.
It's just 126, so I'm not thatfar off.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, yeah.
What is your goal for your A1C?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Well, 4.8 to 5.6 is normal.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh, okay, so there you go, you went into normal
range.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I went into normal.
So the goal now that my A1C isin a normal range wonderful.
But that doesn't mean I havereversed diabetes or
pre-diabetes.
I haven't.
They say that it takes about ayear at having a low A1C.
With your numbers, you know,your daily numbers being stable.
(19:50):
You can actually then say Ihave reversed diabetes.
So my goal now is to help healmy kidneys, my livers, my heart,
my brain.
That's the goal.
I've got my number down great,but I have all the other little
(20:10):
pieces that I need to startfocusing on.
How do I help heal my liver,kestrel, kestrel packs, what can
I do for my kidneys, you know,and my heart, and get my
cholesterol down and focus moreon how do I what foods do I need
(20:31):
to eat to really help in thenext three months, focus on
dropping that cholesterol downto the safe range for a diabetic
?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Okay.
So the reason why I wanted toget those numbers out and then
be able to like say, how did youjump off that cliff to kick off
this?
Because those I want to officethis my sister and her husband
are avid hunters and fishermen.
People fisher ladies and thisis what they do for like their
(21:06):
whole life.
So to go from, you know, nothaving meat I mean so you guys
were all about meat andbarbecuing and marinating and
smoking for hours and days, andyou guys have that set up Okay,
(21:27):
outside, and to go from that tonot was probably a household, a
big work.
I mean, a lot of stuff happenedin the house, I'm sure right,
and you and Dan right.
So how did you do it?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Well, I just after doing the research, seeing that
it's possible that I couldreverse the diabetes, I jumped
Dan, I decided and did it.
Dan said oh no, no, no, no, no,no.
And I said fine, I'll eat andprepare the meals, set a big
salad, which you have no problemwith, and then you can just eat
(22:05):
your meat.
After I started to feel so goodand I said you know, can you
please just watch this forksover nights documentary, just so
you can see where I'm comingfrom, so you can at least
understand what I'm doing andwhy I'm doing it.
(22:25):
Okay, please.
So he did.
Now this was after he had madewhat are those things called he
old pork?
No, it wasn't pulled pork, itwas carne asadas.
(22:45):
He made carne asadas, smokedthe pork for two days with
pineapple and they gorgedthemselves, him and William, for
a couple of days.
And so he wasn't.
When he, when he was started towatch this documentary, he was
feeling pretty crappy becausethey had eaten so much, and so
(23:07):
he watched, started to watch it,and in 20 minutes he comes out
to me and says okay, I got it,let's do it.
That was it.
He was like I get it because hehas so many physical issues,
you know, high blood pressure,bad knees, bad shoulders, aches
(23:27):
and pains, arthritis he has allthis physical stuff that's going
on with him and so and he wasfeeling so awful that day when
he watched it and that was it hejust said let's do it.
So we did, and when we started Isaid, okay, well, let's just
(23:48):
use, I want to lose this weightthat I've gone on.
And I said, okay, well, thenwhat we'll do is we'll go
through a weight loss stagewhere we'll lose whatever weight
and when you get to the pointwhere you want, then we can add
stuff back in.
So it won't be forever.
You won't.
You'll, you know, don't have togo the rest of your life not
eating meat because he iscarnivore and yeah, and we just
(24:12):
started and he's had tri-tipwraps.
We've had company over and youknow I have my vegetarian meal
and everyone's eaten tri-tipwraps, or we've actually had
company over where we didn't eatany we ate what our normal meal
is and made them something.
We made them fish or we madethem, you know, pasta with
(24:34):
halibut and crab and and wedidn't eat it.
But you know, now he's down what?
35 pounds, so he's starting toadd a little bit in?
I'm not, yet I don't feel aneed to.
I don't really.
My taste buds have changed sodrastically that I'm enjoying so
(24:55):
much what I'm eating that I'mnot.
I am having one little craving,and that's fish and chips.
Stands, fish and chips.
That's not the only thing I'mcraving, but not so much that
I'm going to eat it yet.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
So switching gears can be really tough.
Okay, it can be really tough.
I mean people.
You know, when I talk to peopleabout this, they're like, oh, I
don't think so.
So what hurdles did you runinto that?
Did you have to jump over thatyou could talk to other people
about?
You know what I mean.
(25:32):
To help them, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Actually didn't run into any hurdles, because the
fear I had of more imputationswas my motivation.
So for me, because that feargripped me was constantly there,
I didn't, I just made thedecision and did it.
(25:58):
Okay, I did and.
But I know, like other peoplein our circle that have had, who
have thought about changing orwho are, you know, considering
going whole food plant based,they are hitting hurdles and
that is giving up the meat andthat's why I told Dan when we
(26:21):
started and he made the decisionto begin, it's not forever, you
can still, and if you don'thave to lose weight you're doing
this just for your health thenyou can have, you know, meat a
few times a month.
Dan read an article that saidyou can have animal products up
(26:42):
to six times a month and it willnot derail you from your whole
food plant based health journey.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So that's awesome.
I'll give a couple of pointers,because I didn't have the fear
gripping that you did, but I hadthe need to do it for myself.
Or, like my blood pressure, Ido have a high LDL, always have
(27:13):
and quite frankly, I mean, I,you know, I love, I'm a foodie,
I love food.
So but what I found once youstarted giving me the diet, the,
you sent me a bunch of recipesand I started making the recipes
and I'm like, oh my God, thisis really good, you know.
(27:35):
And then I startedincorporating my own stuff and
how to make things and, just, Iwas not, I was probably eating
more eggs and then, of course,meat every day or every other
day, and so that's those werethe big changers is no eggs and
but maybe once or twice a monthand now, and meat maybe once a
(27:58):
week, once every two weeks, fishonce every two weeks.
I've changed it.
I hate tofu.
Okay, I cannot stand tofu.
There's something about it inmy mouth and my tongue.
It just makes me feel extremelyweird.
Okay, I can do a lot of otherthings in my mouth, but I can't
(28:19):
do photo.
Sorry about that, okay.
Anyway, so one of the thingsthat I like is falafels.
I make my own falafels.
I love falafels.
I make them for my wraps, I doall these kinds of different
things, you know.
So I love my falafels and I'llgo and get other kinds of you
(28:42):
know.
You know, pasta, the beans, thechickpeas, all that kind of
stuff so flavorful.
You know, I have my girlfriendwho is here over the weekend.
She's a fabulous cook, so she'slike oh, let's do this.
You told me about couscous, soI made couscous, I did a bunch
of stuff.
She added a bunch of stuff.
It was like phenomenal, youknow.
So it's like I think thatpeople think and I will say one
(29:08):
thing that was a game changerfor me too Thinking about having
to chop up all the vegetablesis kind of a pain in the ass.
So you sending me that chopper,I think, has made a huge
difference.
It's not so, oh my God, thisrecipe calls for a whole onion
to be chopped.
You know it's like.
You know it's a lot of work,and so now it's become even
(29:31):
easier, and now I'm even makingeven better dishes because of
that, and I make my own salsakind of stuff for my whole grain
chips that I get at Costco andI.
So I do chips.
I do my beet hummus.
I make that every week I do.
I'm kind of a weekly person, soI do.
I do it every other week andthen I have it for the week.
(29:54):
So I do my beet hummus, I do myjuicing, I do my.
I love my beans and I makethose into packages and then I
just pull them out.
So I think I do, I just freezea little bit, I make the full
thing and then I freeze and thenI pull and I swear it's really
been a game changer and it's soeasy.
You know, you go to the farmer'smarket, pick up your vegetables
(30:16):
that you need and, boom, you'reeating it.
And you just have to think andlike, like you said, like it's a
lifestyle change.
I either have to decide that Iwant to get and eat healthier
and be better or I'm going tojust continue to go down that.
I love the saying one of thedoctors on forks over knives you
(30:39):
can either eat your way intoillness or you can eat your way
out of into healthy.
You have the choice.
So that's really how it is andso many of us are, if that,
watching that it's for 23 poundsoverweight the average American
(31:02):
on the Western diet.
We suck here teaching everyoneabout health and we really need
to have a better way of changingeveryone's mind and thinking.
And so last thing I just wantto cover because we have so much
more to cover but we'll do itin another podcast for 30
minutes you can't just do thisalone with diet.
(31:25):
On your American diet, on youryou know the American diabetes,
it says you have to do exercise.
So talk about your, becauseit's not just that, it's
exercise.
So tell me about your exercisejust for a brief moment.
How many times a day are theyrecommending you to keep that?
Speaker 2 (31:45):
To exercise Well, at least you know, four times a
week.
Usually is not by the day, it's, it's, at least you know three
to four times a week.
I've been doing the vibrationplate that you got me started
doing it since last August andbefore two weeks to three weeks
(32:05):
ago I was doing it twice a day,10 minutes in the morning and 10
minutes at night.
And then I saw a YouTube videoby the founders of Mastering
Diabetes and they wererecommending because I was still
struggling with my blood sugar.
This is before I started thecoaching and they said go for a
(32:28):
walk after every meal.
And I'm like okay, well, Ican't really go for a walk For
multiple reasons.
It's constantly pouring downrain here.
And and I my half foot.
You know just that's whatcauses me all my pain.
So I can only spend short, peer, short peer is a time on it.
So I started doing thevibration plate three times a
(32:52):
day.
And how's that working?
It's working out really well.
Now, you know, when I was doingit twice a day, I was up at the
highest level.
So when I right I was at thehighest level five on mine and
so when I went to three times aday, adding that third time, I
(33:13):
went all the way back down tothe beginning to work myself up.
Can't just boom, start doing it.
It has to be gradual becauseyour body has to adjust.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
You realize 10 minutes of that vibration plate,
which is the sessions that itis.
10 minutes equals one hour ofrunning, and if you normally do
not run for an hour on atreadmill then you might not
want to be doing that.
You know, it'll really shakeyou up.
Yeah, I did have someone startwith three times or doing it for
(33:47):
30 minutes and she couldn'twalk for three days.
So it's very important that youdefinitely start out slow doing
the vibration plate andremember what it's doing, and I
will be doing a live, so I'll bedoing lives now and starting
this next week.
Today's my first live at 12, 15.
(34:08):
And so we're going to do Q&A.
So please hop on.
And vibration plates do so much, but they're also something
that you need to beprecautionary and understand and
make sure that you're not just,you know, being crazy.
So but that that's awesome.
So that's helped you with your,you know, exercise after each
(34:29):
meal, and so for two weeksyou've been down how many, how
many pounds since you startedSix and a half pounds.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
That's a lot.
That's a lot and I only weighonce a week.
So because I get obsessive, soyou know, as I said, I'm
gradually increasing thevibration plate from the levels
you know you can go up thelevels and because my back has
improved so much since I startedthe vibration plate Now I've
(35:00):
been in therapy and we've talkedabout that on the other podcast
.
I'm going to start next weekand go back to rowing.
I love rowing and with the, inthe last two weeks I've also
started doing upper bodyworkouts on on my my after my
(35:20):
lunch.
So on my lunch vibration I godown to the number one, actually
, I sit on it and then I do awhole upper body workout.
It's a good workout.
It really works.
The the bat wings, so you knowit's helped me with dropping the
(35:41):
weight, with feeling so good,having so much energy and out
more.
I'm doing more.
I love all the prep work with,so that's also.
I'm doing more around the house, so that's even more activity.
We're starting our garden.
I'm going to be out in thegarden more, so just all the way
around.
The health benefits that we'reexperiencing with eating this
(36:06):
way at this new lifestyle hasjust been phenomenal.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
And I just want to bring back our listeners, who
probably haven't seen maybe someof our other podcasts, my
sister and I together.
But we started this pod.
We started this kind of journeylast summer because of our
mother not doing very well andof course, cassie had her own
journey of the type two diabetes, but my mom wasn't doing well.
So it certainly it kind of likehow jump started things for us.
(36:35):
We were like we got to get herbetter and then in the meantime
we're getting ourselves better,so kind of actually worked out.
And then it's funny becausethen it's become contagious in
the family.
My father, my brother, mysister-in-law, we've got friends
, we've Dan, we've got familymembers, you've got your other
son, I got my boys about readyto jump on it right now.
(36:56):
So it's like you know itbecomes contagious and when you
think of it we're all going tolive longer.
How well do you want to live?
Do you want to live healthy andhappy and vibrant and
peacefully, die quick Boom, ordo you really want to have a
(37:18):
long death of pure illness?
Always to the doctors andpeople taking care of you or
ending up in a nursing home, andto me, I just want to live
happily and healthy and bevibrant.
And you know, good thing, Ilive in California.
I can die at any time I want,if I have dementia and or any
(37:41):
account of other health issue.
But my thing is, why liveunhealthily when you can live
healthily and I feel so good,like my body feels good?
I feel good, I've lost moreweight since doing your.
So I started the vibrationplate that started the weight
loss, then the diet, changing tothe whole foods that helped,
(38:06):
and so it's like everything juststarts jumping and it becomes
pretty easy, I think.
So let's, let's spend everythingelse.
I know we've got other placesto be.
We've definitely have more totalk about with regards to
recipes.
Where do you go to get them?
Let's talk about next timePlaces for people to go.
(38:29):
There's a lot of veganrestaurants and there's ways to
eat vegan when you go out torestaurants.
So I've been learning that andI want to teach people that,
because let's not be sillyenough to think that we're not
going to go out ever.
We're going to go out, so allright.
Well, thanks for joining me,cass.
I'm so glad.
I'm so happy to be part of yourtype do diabetes journey of
(38:52):
really honestly recovering andyou're going to show people that
they can do it too.
That's awesome.
All right, I love you, sister.
Have a good one you too, bye,bye.
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