My story: Elsy and type 2 diabetes

Elsy shares the story of her type 2 diabetes diagnosis, how she is managing and ultimately hopes to reverse diabetes.

Transcript

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I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes a year before I got pregnant. However, they thought I was more gestational during

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my pregnancy. But a month after having my baby, it turned out to be type 2 diabetes. [MUSIC]

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I was really scared because there are alredy signs of diabetes in my family, and that worried me a lot.

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So I started taking great care of my health and my diet. The first person to whom I mentioned was my husband

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and my mom, they're the people who provide me the most support. I also had a lot of support from my church.

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The church provided a seminar in which we could participate. The seminar is called Reversing Diabetes.

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Mi doctor told me to take great care of my diet, but at the seminar I learned a lot about diet and exercise.

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We learned about burst training, which in Spanish would be like intensive training. For example, it can be walking or it can be running

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30-second intervals, 2 minutes of rest, 30 seconds, and 2 minutes of rest, and that's great.

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3 months after I took the seminar, I was re-tested on my blood test, and my blood sugar levels

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had dropped. It motivates me a lot to make these changes, as I mentioned earlier, for myself

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and my family, but also for others to learn, that they know they have control in their hands.

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That will is everything to be able to change the situation and to be able to change their state of health.

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That we can make small changes in our lifestyle in order to completely eradicate this disease.