Hi all,
Well to start off, Dr. McDougalls program has quite literally saved my life.
I have been gradually gaining weight and my health declining after I got out of high school in 1990. I had gotten to 265 pounds back in 2004 and lost down to 175 by cut back on eating and working myself very hard in the gym with numerous hours in the gym on and elliptical trainer, stair stepper, recumbent bikes and such and outside doing some jogging but after that my weight started coming back on fast and fureous in 2010. By the end of last year 2016 I maxed out and had been considering drastic measures of gastric bypass surgery. I had reached a weight of 375 pounds on my 5'8" frame. Everything I tried to lose weight failed and I only kept gaining. I had had high blood pressure for years now, suffered from gout, and then over Christmas I was suffering from the unquenchable thirst and no interest in eating. When my husband and I got home from seeing my parents for Christmas I went into my doctor. My blood sugar was off the scale for the equipment they had in the office and I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Lab results came back that my blood sugar was at 750 and my a1c was at 11%. I was told that I should have been dead or in a diabetic coma. They also diagnosed me with high cholesterol. I was put on Metphormin and lantus insulin for the diabetes and was on several other meds for all the other issues. I was miserable and had no energy. I was also practically blind from the diabetes.
My mom had shared with me about Dr. McDougall at least a year before but I was too stubborn to listen honestly but I remembered about it so when I got the devastating news about my diabetes I thought long and hard about it and then made my decision to begin following the starch solution. I started on the program by the second week of January of 2017 and began dropping pounds and my glucose also started dropping quickly. By either the end of January or beginning of February I made the decision to cut all of my medications and supplements with the exception of the Lantus insulin. I continued to carefully monitor my blood sugar, weight, and blood pressure. I gradually lowered my insulin levels until by late march I dropped off of the insulin all together.
Through all of this my vision has been restored, my energy has been better, my IBS problems are gone and today I weigh 311 pounds down from that 375 at the end of last year. I have a long way to go but I've come a long way too. I had my first doctor visit with my primary nurse practitioner this week. I had refused to see her until I had lab work that I could show and be able to scientifically prove why I no longer needed their medications and why the starch solution works and is healthy for me. My Doctor came in the office smiling and gave me a high five. She shook her head in disbelief when I told here that I was on the starch solution eating primarily starchy foods like potatoes and corn. She said that she could not argue the facts from my lab work and to keep doing what I'm doing as it is working and that both the labs and I look really good. I wouldn't have had this meeting except that I have to have surgery on the 13th of June for a urinary stricture which is a complication of circmcision that generally affects adolescent boys and unfortneatly I'm one of the unlucky adults to have the problem. The surgery required lab work and a pre-op physical so the meeting with my doctor was unavoidable.
Once the surgery is done and I'm healed from that and my knee injury from 5 weeks ago, I'll be able to return to riding the recumbant bike as I had been doing and resume the little bit of physical activity that I was doing. In December and January I could not hardly even walk across my house and I got up to riding 45 minutes 3 times a week on the bike at my gym.
I can honestly say that the starch solution works and what Dr. McDougall tells us all is absolutely true and scientifically proven. I am nobody special so if I can do it, anyone can.
Thanks for hearing my story. I look forward to what life has in store for me and cannot wait to someday be thin and fit again. I have hope for the first time in a very very long time.
