Recovering from Diabetes - Vineet Khandelwal's story

Vineet is a dear friend. He once posted the following. I found it very inspiring:

1st Feb 2017 - 11:30 AM - Random Blood sugar testing in office

Sugar reading: 416

Medical Technician: Sir, this is too high, please get it checked

V: Really! But I feel fine

Medical Technician: Please get it checked properly it should be around 100

4th Feb 2017 - Lab blood test

Fasting Blood Sugar: 235 | HBA1C: 12.1

Still cannot believe the test. Let us get another done. Maybe the report is incorrect

10th Feb 2017 - Lab blood test

Fasting: 210 | Post: 257

Time to take this seriously

13th Feb 2017 - Visit the doctor

Doctor: hmmm. Mom has sugar?

V: Yes

Doctor: hmmm

V: Doctor, what does this mean?

Doctor: Simple, you have type 2 diabetes and your cholesterol is also high. Here are some medicines. You have to take them for life (lifetime!). Brisk walk for 45 minutes daily and eat this low fat diet (a standard printout is provided)

Back home

K: But V, look at all these medicines! they have a ton of side effects! there is no way you are taking these medicines. Diabetes is a lifestyle disease, we must treat it with a diet. Let us talk to a dietician

20th Feb 2017 - Dietician

Eat every two hours. Eat one walnuts, one almonds in the morning with oats. Eat roasted channa, makhana, diet khakhadas, salted lassi, multi grain roti. Avoid Mangos/Bananas

7th March Follow up - Dietician

Dietician: How are you feeling?

V: I feel low in energy, bloated all the time, sleepy, thirsty in spite of drinking 7 to 8 glasses of water as prescribed

Dietician: Ok. Let us change the diet a bit. Add sprouts to the breakfast and eat two almonds and two walnuts. Drink skimmed milk. Eat two diet khakhadas at 4 PM. Take 10 to 12 glasses of water a day and drink butter milk in the night. Continue to eat every 2 hours

I feel :(

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Kavita attends 3 day workshop at THAC in April 2017

K: V, I think you should start eating the THAC way. It will help

V: Sure

The next day starts with fruits and all the goodness that THAC teaches. Mangos, bananas were eaten with no fear. Milk and milk products were dropped, wheat was dropped, refined Sugar was dropped, single grain, salads were adopted. Oil was reduced amongst other things like deactivating etc

19th May 2017 - blood report

Fasting Sugar: 104 :) | Post: 123 :) | HBA1C: 6.9 :)

21st July 2017 - blood report

Fasting Sugar: 88 | Post: 108 | HBA1C: 5.5

Diabetes free!!!!

That status has remained that way until now. I am confident that this will stay like this for life.

There is something to be said about this body of ours. More than 50 years of abuse or ‘eating right’ was fixed in just 3 months. In fact, my weight started coming down within two weeks after THAC and the energy level shot up.

I felt alive once again.  Not only was Diabetes and Cholesterol back at normal levels, my headaches that I used to have frequently is gone. There are various other improvements that I feel internally.

It has been a great journey. I subsequently attended the workshop and learned first hand the workings of this magnificent body and the way to maintain it. I learned that death and disease are not related and that we become what we eat. Proper input is very important to live a medicine free life.

I Don't need to have medicine with food. Food is the medicine my body needs.

Vineet Khandelwal