Independence from and Freedom to...

Today is the day the US celebrates it's independence.

I am reminded of my independence and freedoms on this day.  This post will discuss those and my hope is this perspective inspires you to start THRIVING and not 'just' surviving.

Freedom From

Each July 4th  I am reminded of my personal independence, the independence from drugs and insulin.

This will be my 7th Independence Day celebration, free from the chains of drugs and injecting insulin four times a day!

Seventh! In a row!  WooT! :)

However, the benefits of the way I eat, play and live give me much more than that.  I am not ONLY free from taking any drug, not only am I free from injecting insulin ... I am also:

• Free from elevated blood sugars and related complications.  See the top right pic, that's my fasting this morning and a little higher than I'd prefer.
  
   I have reversed all known diabetes complications including neuropathy. 

• Free from the addictions of grains, sugar and starches.  I am no longer addicted to the products of Big Food companies.  I do not want or need breads, cakes, cookies, pasta nor cereals.
  
  I eat real foods, fatty meats, low-carb vegetables with the occasional nuts and berries.

• Free from requiring the Medical Industry to survive. The medical industry wants you to believe you need a 'team' of doctors to manage diabetes. False.
  
  Other than a dislocated shoulder in 2013 I have not seen a medical industry professional since 2009. Other than the pain medication for the dislocation, I have been completely drug free since 2009.

• Free from the downward health spiral, feeling progressively worse while taking an ever expanding list of drugs.  In 2009 my health was deteriorating rapidly while I was taking more and more drugs.  I will never forget how miserable I felt.
  
  

The list is amazing and I am so thankful each of them, however the list only tells part of the story. Now to discuss my freedom to...


Freedom To

  Because of the way I eat, play and live I also have many more freedoms.

I have:

• Freedom to eat nutritious, delicious, low inflammatory, body healing ... fuel. Here is a picture from a meal I ate four years ago today.  My meal today will be similar, fatty meats and low carb vegetables.

Here was my meal last night.  Ground beef and roasted poblano peppers. 

• Freedom to play as I want.  
  
  This is HUGE to me.  I was once an obese, sickly... couch potato.  The other day I rode my bike (background center left) and pushed this sled on the high school football field for 220 yards, in July! It felt great! 

Below is a typical picture of me.  I am barefoot and shirtless as much as possible especially when I walk on grass and in full sun.  

• Freedom to live as I want to live. This picture of a recent sunrise. 
  
  

  The dawn of a new day inspires me.  Each sunrise is a fresh start. The first day of the rest of your life. If you don't like who, what or where you are... change it! 

Summary

I was once a miserable, obese, drug and insulin dependent diabetic needing drugs and insulin just to survive.

Repeat these words, "I am the boss of me". 

You choose the foods and drinks you consume.  I urge you to follow my meal plan for 30 days, it can make a significant change in your life. 

Can you break the chains of drug or insulin dependence? Only one way to find out. DO IT!

Eat like me.

Type 1 diabetics will be on insulin until a cure is found, I 'get that'.  But even type 1's can benefit from a low carb paleo meal plan.  Many type 1's are on an ever increasing amount of insulin, drugs and an increasing amount of insulin resistance. 

"Carb up and shoot up" diabetes treatment protocol benefits no diabetic. 

It does benefit Big Food, Big Pharma and the Medical Industry.

I want everyone to enjoy a better, more satisfying, more enjoyable life.  

That is difficult when your health is slowly deteriorating and you take more and more drugs and require more and more medical industry services.  

Begin your journey to earn your independence today.