Client story: JP's own change
This is the story of where the change really began.
Where it started
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The nurse reassured me that I didn't need to change anything, this would be balanced with medication. I felt relief. I didn't yet realise that relief was a trap.
Before that there had been years I couldn't read correctly. In the afternoons my energy ran out, and I patched it up with energy drinks. On gig trips my habit was to stop and eat fast food as late as 11pm, not because I was hungry but because it had become a habit. In the morning I didn't remember what I had eaten, and I didn't understand why I hadn't slept well.
The turning point
The turning point wasn't the scales or a blood test. It was my father. He had a medical emergency in hospital, in front of me. On the way home I started counting forwards from my own point and noticed that the same path wasn't twenty years away. It was a few.
I didn't change that evening. But from that evening on, I could no longer not know.
What I started to understand
Little by little I learned why I eat the way I eat: what was hunger, what was habit, what was tiredness, and what was simply that food was close by and the evening was long. I changed things one at a time.
My experience in numbers
- Starting weight
- 134 kg
- Less weight
- 45 kg
- Type 2 diabetes
- Remission
- Diabetes medication
- Dropped
These are my results. They do not tell you what will happen to anyone else. If you take medication, changing it should always be discussed with your own doctor.
Where I am now
I eat differently now than I used to, and the change has lasted. Afternoons are different. On gig trips I no longer stop to eat just because it is late and that is how it used to go. Food no longer defines my day the way it used to.
I still do gigs on stage. Alongside that, I coach people who recognise themselves in that old version of me.
My journey in brief
Starting point
Type 2 diabetes was diagnosed, and the relief of not having to change anything was a trap.
Turning point
My father's medical emergency in hospital. From that evening on, I could no longer not know.
What I started to understand
Why I eat the way I eat: what was hunger, what was habit, what was tiredness.
Where I am now
I eat differently than before, and the change has lasted.
Why I coach
I coach people who recognise themselves in that old version of me.