Diabetes Weight Loss Success Story
♪ I was in pretty good shape when I was younger. I was an athlete. Since then, I got into the workforce, kind of let everything go. When I first realized that there was an issue, I was 320 pounds. I just felt sluggish, lack energy. Just wanted to sleep a lot. I was diagnosed with diabetes and really didn't do much about it. The downside of not addressing one's weight and diabetes is that these conditions will continue to worsen over time such as decreased sensation in your feet, losing a limb, developing kidney dysfunction, developing heart problems, all those things once they start to develop are not reversible. I realized I've got to try to get healthier. I've kids to raise and a family to support.
So I would start on a treadmill, maybe walk for 15 minutes and I'd be just beat. When I first saw him, he told me that he had already lost about 35 pounds by going back to the gym, the exercise, and cut down on this portion sizes. But he had kind of hit a wall around 280. I couldn't lose any more weight, no matter how much I worked out the rest of it wasn't going away.
Many patients will hit a roadblock so it was very important that we talked about that this is normal, that you are not alone. That if you do the things that we know work, that we can help you. Dr. Pantalone was able to diagnose the situation. Explained to me why I'm not gonna lose any more weight is cause my metabolism basically has stopped. So we needed to address it. Historically, many medications that were used to treat patients with type two diabetes would cause further weight gain. We put them on new medications that not only helped improve his blood sugar control but can also help the patients lose weight. I lost 40 pounds, six months with the help of Dr. Pantalone. The transformation is amazing. I walked in the gym this morning, saw a guy that I haven't seen for about four months. Didn't even recognized me. The most important message here is that weight loss is possible. While you may have failed in the past, or you may not have seen the results that you were hoping to see in the past, if you work with your medical team to identify a program that works for you, you can get your diabetes under control.
You can lose weight and you can feel better. When I started this process, I was 320 pounds and now I am 240 pounds. So I've lost a total of 80 pounds. My overall energy is just amazing. I would certainly recommend it to anybody that has a situation with diabetes That this can happen to someone like Danny. It can happen to all of us but there is hope and we all can get things back on track. If I hadn't done anything about it, it's hard to say what could have happened. So thankfully for the Cleveland clinic and Dr. Pantalone, I've been able to get this under control and I'm a new person.
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