45: Pre-Diabetes: 1/3 Of Us Have It. What Is It And Why Is It Serious?

Wha is Pre-Diabetes

What Is This Episode About…

100 million people in the USA are pre-diabetic. This is a serious problem that no one is talking about. And the reason is that people don’t quite understand it. So in this episode, Cari and I will explain this condition in layman’s terms and tell you what you can do about it.

We have seen people on our program decreasing their insulin demands, getting off their diabetic agents because they’re choosing to eat the proper human diet.

You’ve got to give up the sugar, whether you want to lose a hundred pounds or you don’t want to be diabetic anymore.

We’re telling people to give themselves insulin to bring the sugar levels back down when the real answer is just to stop eating the crap food.

We all eat like we’re diabetics on Code Red.

If your doctor has said to you you’re pre-diabetic, please do not lose hope. Please do not think that’s a death sentence. Please do not wait for it to get worse. There is a better way.

We teach on Code Red: “no snacking”, and that does solve a whole lot of issues.

We don’t eat frequently on Code Red. What it does, it beats up your system. It causes you to secrete insulin all day long and your body cannot get it back down to baseline and you really are beating yourself up.

Cut back on processed foods and sugar.

Once you get on Code Red, you get completely detoxed from the crap – Let your blood sugars come down and just eat the two meals a day.

Please follow the advice of your doctor as far as titration is concerned.

Stay tuned to know more.

Key Points of Discussion

  • One-third of people in the US are pre-diabetic (4:54)
  • When it’s pre-diabetes, you’re still in the reversing stage (10:58)
  • We’ve seen people on our program getting off their diabetic agents (12:36)
  • They want to have their cake and eat it too. They’re making themselves sicker (13:29)
  • You’ve got to give up the sugar (13:53)
  • When the real answer is just to stop eating the crap food… (15:07)
  • Why Code Red is the answer to pre-diabetic or types 2 status (16:45)
  • Why we teach “no snacking” on Code Red (17:36)
  • Why we don’t eat frequently on Code Red (18:48)
  • You need to be in touch with your primary care provider (23:15)
  • Be in contact with your doctors about titrating your medications (23:51)
  • Once you get on Code Red, you get detoxed from the crap (25:13)
  • And with high fat, you’re going to notice a steady stream of energy (25:21)
  • Do not quit taking all your insulin instantly (26:05)

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When Was It Released…

This episode was released January 29, 2020

Episode Transcript…

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Cari:               00:00 If your doctor has said to you, you’re pre-diabetic, please do not lose hope. Please do not think that’s a death sentence. Please do not sit any Cinnabuns and drink your sugar coffee and wait for it to get worse. I want to just please see my heart on this. There is a better way.

 

Cristy:             00:20 And it is going to get worse. You don’t just kind of like you don’t just oil, it didn’t really do anything. No, it is going to get worse. It is classified as a terminal disease.

 

Cristy:             00:32 I’m Cristy Code Red and you’re listening to Rebel Weight Loss and Lifestyle where we believe food holds the power to heal or poison and we believe our society has been misled regarding proper nutrition and weight loss. You’re in the right place if you’re looking for some straight-up truth because I’m here to shed light on the lies and brainwashing that has taken place over the past five decades. Thanks so much for listening.

 

Cristy:             00:59 Welcome to Rebel Weight Loss and Lifestyle. Welcome. Welcome, welcome. I am Cristy Code Red, author, entrepreneur, retired professional boxer, and I am so glad that I am being joined by Cari Thompson. Cari, what’s up?

 

Cari:               01:12 Hey, so excited to be here. I was gone for a couple podcasts. I’m just saying, I hope your ratings didn’t go down. I’m totally teasing. Totally teasing.

 

Cristy:             01:23 Hey, you know at the, actually speaking of ratings at the time of this recording, out of 860,000 podcasts in the United States, we are number 250 wow. That’s almost a million podcasts. You’re 250 yeah, like not 250,000 just 250 I mean that plane to a plane. Five and a plane. Zero. I’m just thankful and you guys, that is all you and let me really quick read a rating and a review that somebody left for is, this is from Selena in C being Selena, just a few hours ago, wrote Five Stars, rebel newbie.

 

Cristy:             02:00 She writes, I’m so thankful to have come across Cristy and her podcast. If you want someone who can speak the truth and life to your soul, you have found it when she speaks. I swear it’s nuggets of knowledge and experience that you will not find anywhere else. She gives us raw truth, but without making you feel diminished in any way. If anything, she makes you feel energized and ready to take on the challenge. That is my life. Thank you so much. Representing the truth and I love the banter between you and your sister on everything.

 

Cari:               02:30 What you don’t know, Selena, is that we do this all day long. If you could be a little mouse in the corner sitting right here in my chair, in my office, you would know. We do this all day long, all day long.

 

Cristy:             02:43 Cari does songs and voices and is so funny. It’s really great. So thank you. Thank you for the rating and thank you for the review. All of you guys, I sure appreciate that. It’s because of you that everything’s going so well, so thank you for sharing and sure. Appreciate this. And, and just so everybody knows that if I ever say a link or anything, it is always going to be in the show notes so you can click on it there and you can, it’ll get redirected right where you want to go. So Cari, I’m so excited about this podcast because I love this subject and guys today we’re talking about diabetes and I know that’s like, ah, no, hold on a minute.

 

Cristy:             03:20 It’s the Cristy and Cari way to bring it to you. It’s not scary. It’s not weird. It’s not something that you should be like, it’s layman’s terms, right? Real people terms, real people.

 

Cari:               03:31 I think part of the problem, let me actually let me back out. When Cristy and I visited KetoCon last year, again, Cristy is speaking at KetoCon. Am I allowed to say that? I just am so proud of you, but anyway, when Cristy and I visited KetoCon last year, one thing that struck me was Dr. Barry. We listened to him speak and he said something that is the inspiration behind this podcast in my heart anyway, because it was such a wow moment. Of course, being a nurse for many years I have seen this. But when he said it, I was like, Oh my gosh. He said, if your doctor’s gonna fight you on living this type of a lifestyle, the proper human diet, it’s going to be about anybody with heart disease like taking statins.

 

Cari:               04:15 And number two, anybody who is diabetic and Cristy, we heard the story sitting next to us of the woman who decided to feed her diabetic daughter a proper human diet. So diabetic not give her carbs and grains and crap food, not give her hours and Cheerios and ding-dongs and guess what somebody called child protection on this woman. So because of me listening to Dr. Barry, Cristy was sitting right next to me. Our jaws are dropping open. You can’t feed your child with real food. I think that is why it’s so important to talk about this today.

 

Cristy:             04:54 And also cause 100 million people, 100 million people. By the way, there are 300 million people in the United States. So one-third of those people. Wow, 100 million people are pre-diabetic. And what does that mean? That means your A1C is between 5.7 and 6.4 and so that’s not a good thing. And let’s explain to Cari, why don’t you explain to people what a one’s, what hemoglobin a one C means?

 

Cari:               05:23 I think you might even have a better handle on it. I used to joke about this in the ICU. I used to say you can’t hide from an A1C. So we would have people come in and diabetic ketoacidosis or some kind of diabetic. Even if they came in to get a knee replaced and you know, we’re going to check your blood sugar, Cristy, I kid you not, they’d be like, Oh my blood sugars have been. Or it’s kind of like when people try to lie about their weight to you, Cristy. It doesn’t work. Oh I’ve been running 80 to a hundred or Oh with my insulin I’ve been less than 120 and then you get them back, which the other name for that is glide class late hemoglobin. That’s a mouth word. [inaudible] Class late. When we would get these numbers back we will be like, Mr. Smith, your blood sugar is not been 100 for the last couple months.

 

Cari:               06:12 So it is a test that measures the very basic way to say it is what have your blood sugars been like? How well have you been controlling your diabetes? Isn’t it a couple months, Cristy, for the last 90 days, three months? Yeah. So it’s the last three months. It’s a measure of what have you been doing or in other words, I like to call it the real truth. Cristy has a technical way to explain it too.

 

Cristy:             06:35 Well I like to say the simplest way I’ve ever heard it explained to me is how much sugar is coating your red blood cells and you can’t care was right. You cannot hide from an A1C. And we all should know what our A1C is. I was married to a type one diabetic, Jason Nicole, my first marriage, and we’re not talking about type one. And anytime we talk about diabetes, Cari and I were just not talking about type one.

 

Cristy:             06:58 That’s really kind of a different ballgame. And that’s not something that we deal with a lot. We’re dealing with type two and prediabetics. And so the A1C is telling you if you are between 5.7 and a 6.4 that is like, Oh Hey, we’re not looking too good. You need to, you need to take pause. And this isn’t, no, this isn’t a good thing. And this is, this is an indication that things you’re running a little chew hide and then you have a little too much sugar-coating your red blood cell and you need to stop and do an about-face. And at least that’s what we’re all hoping you will do. And when Cari talks about what your blood sugar is running, normal blood sugar is between 80 and 120. We like to say, we’d like to bring that down a bit and say between 80 and 180 and a hundred I think personally, why not?

 

Cari:               07:47 Like why would you want to ride it? Run-on that one 20 side? Well, Code Red rebels do not even run that high, but we won’t, you know, we won’t get into that just yet. So, so when you try to tell your doctor, it’s just like going into the dental hygienist and your hygienist asks you, do you floss? She or he can see that you don’t floss. So it’s not any, that’s exactly what an A1C does. It tells you what my, my blood sugar has been running a run an 86 Oh bull crap. Cause your A1C is, you know, it’s 6.2 like you’re not come on. So, those are the technical terms. You might hear us throw up a little here and there. Right. And I always say to my dental hygienist, why do you make me lie to you?

 

Cari:               08:30 Don’t lie. You know, you know the truth. Actually, I’m better about flossing, but I’m not as good as Cristy who will floss 24 seven if you’ll let her. Sometimes she even flosses when she’s online. That’s all I’m saying. I do, I do. I’m like, what are you doing? Stop. Don’t with those flossing, flossing is how you keep your show.

 

Cristy:             08:48 When we say 100 million people in the United States are pre-diabetic, 100 million people are heading toward a danger zone. They’re heading towards the fact that their pancreas is going to give up. So your pancreas, you guys [inaudible] insulin, insulin is the, what we call the ADA sensitive. Yep. The BA, the absorptive hormone that causes the cell to open up and absorb nutrients. You cannot live without insulin. It’s a life, not life-threatening. It is a vital hormone. I’ll have to have it. You have to have it because if you don’t, then you can’t absorb the nutrients.

 

Cristy:             09:25 They can’t get into your cell. It’s like an open suck. It has a little key. It opens up the door to the cell. So if your pancreas decreases the insulin and when you, when you become insulin resistant or you become pre-diabetic, you’re producing, I’m trying not to say too much to get too out there. Maybe you can help me stay on track. I think you’re right. Your body goes, ah, that key isn’t working anymore. There you go. So your body goes, okay, so let me put out more keys. And it just takes a bigger and a thicker key to open up a cell. It’s technically not actually bigger and thicker. So don’t write to me. I had someone write to me nasty about, you guys don’t understand type one diabetes. I’m like, yeah we do. We just almost everybody’s type two. That’s why we talk about, we do get type one, but it’s just that your body goes, ah, yeah, this is not working.

 

Cari:               10:10 So then your poor pancreas, where does beating the heck out of it? You guys? I mean those little beta sales are like trying to keep up for those. You can’t see me. I’m running in place like ah. So they just keep putting out more and more and more and tell Cristy’s right, they’re done. So you got to start taking Metformin. You guys start taking Glucophage, you gotta start taking a little bit of insulin or you’ll die because your blood sugars are too high. You need insulin to make everything work. So you’re just literally, I would say the most layman way to describe type tube diabetes is you have beat the poop out of your pancreas. Isn’t that the best way to say it? Yeah, and I like to bring it out. I like to describe insulin resistance as a way is to, the same thing as shouting was somebody with earmuffs.

 

Cristy:             10:58 Shaun. Yeah, they can’t hear you. So you’re shouting louder. Louder. So your body has put earmuffs on and it cannot receive the insulin. So your body puts out more and more and more until your pancreas gives up, you give up. It cannot keep up with the load. Yeah, he says I’m out. It can’t keep up with the load that you’re putting on your body. So your heading pre-diabetes is a really good indication. Like we all should have this check do your doctor is going to be able to say to you, Hey listen, it’s not good. You’re still in the reversing stage so you can still make it better but you keep going down this path, you are going to become type two.

 

Cari:               11:34 And the thing that frustrates me the most, Cristy, this is my biggest beef, Ugh. With modern medicine, not even modern with traditional doctors and you know providers.

 

Cari:               11:46 And again I believe if I break my leg or whatever like I’m going to the ER to get stitched up. Let me just say that. So I’m putting them down. But here is my biggest beef, Cristy, is that they say, Hey Bob, your A1C was whatever. He says, what does that mean? Well, you’re pre-diabetic. Okay, what should I do? Well, you know, we’re just going to watch it. I hate that. So Bob is going to keep doing what he’s doing, Cristy, and he’s going to end up with diabetes. So we’re watching it. We’re watching you wear out your pancreas, we’re watching you continue to gain weight. We’re watching you have nerve damage, eye damage, kidney damage, peripheral neuropathy. We’re going to watch that and I don’t like, or we’re going to send you to a dietician who tells you to, you know, incorrect advice. We have seen people on our program decreasing their insulin demands, getting off their diabetic agents because they’re choosing to eat the proper human diet.

 

Cari:               12:44 So by saying, watching it, it’s like, Whoa, we’re just gonna watch it. So that to me it makes me nuts, Cristy. It makes me nuts when I hear that from doctors and everyone, not just docs. I mean docs aren’t just the blame.

 

Cristy:             12:59 I was at a conference and I sat next to an endocrinologist and he believed what we believe in Code Red. But he says, well, I just don’t teach my outpatients won’t. I just try to get them at a hundred grams of carbs per meal. And I mean I about fell over and I was like, how can you sit there and say that you know, they need to be completely off. And he was like, cause they’re not going to do it. So I just, I don’t believe that. I don’t believe people want to, I believe if you educate them on the right, here’s the deal.

 

Cristy:             13:29 Wonderbread Bob is not your friend oatmeal from McDonald’s with Craisins and Brown sugar that’s making this worse. That’s going to cause a massive demand on your pancreas. I just, I believe if we just tell people the truth, but they want to have their cake and eat it too and they’re making themselves sicker. So I just don’t believe, well, they’re just not going to do it. I just, we haven’t seen that. Have we? I mean [inaudible] sugar addiction. Yeah. You got to give up the sugar, whether you want to lose a hundred pounds or you don’t want to be diabetic anymore. And I had this conversation with a family member who came to visit me over Christmas, and their A1C is elevated. They do not eat Code Red, and this person is a nurse and knows better, but they don’t want to give up their nightly chocolate. They don’t. So you know what, like at that point, you just go and you know I, yeah.

 

Cari:               14:19 So yeah, the thing that kills me, I told you this is the thing that bothers me the most. But the other thing that kills me on these dietary recommendations that we give to diabetics. So like you said, keep your carbs. So you have a disease where carbs are sort of, especially very processed carbs. So we’re talking like you eat a big jar of SpaghettiOs. Okay, your blood sugar’s going to go up. Sorry, I had to say SpaghettiOs. Oh, I used to love those when we were kids and we didn’t get them very often, by the way, because we couldn’t afford those. You eat a jar of spaghetti SpaghettiOs your blood sugar goes up, you test your blood sugar, you give yourself insulin to combat the SpaghettiOs. What are you doing? So you’re telling people we’re telling people to eat healthy whole grains. I’m holding up my fingers and quote marks.

 

Cari:               15:07 Okay. And then we’re telling them to give themselves insulin to bring it back down when the real answer is just to stop eating the crap food and then you don’t have, it’s simple. People were like, is this program okay for diabetics? Is the only thing you should be eating if you’re diabetic?

 

Cristy:             15:26 Oh my gosh, we all eat like we’re diabetics on Code Red. But I want to say this, I Cari and I know somebody who’s A1C recently was 5.7 now that’s at the low end of the prediabetic scale. And his doctor didn’t say anything to him and I’m like he wouldn’t have known what that even meant. And it didn’t even say anything like Hey just to kind of make you aware of this a once he’s a bit high and this is not really good. Cause if you keep going like you are, it’s going to keep getting worse.

 

Cari:               15:54 Nobody even probably say exercise. They probably say try to lose weight. This is why it is called diabesity because most of the people that are type two diabetic, sadly enough they are obese as well and this is who we see. Oh my gosh Cristy hundreds of people every day just like this person I’m describing to you. So if your doctor has said to you, and I know you want another point Cristy, but if your doctor has said to you you’re pre-diabetic, please do not lose hope. Please do not think that’s a death sentence. Please do not sit any Cinnabuns and drink your sugar coffee and wait for it to get worse. I want to just please see my heart on this. There is a better way.

 

Cristy:             16:40 And it is going to get worse. You don’t just kind of like you don’t just oil and didn’t really do anything.

 

Cristy:             16:45 No it is going to get worse. It is classified as a terminal disease. Yes. You don’t want to screw around with diabetes. And so why is Code Red the answer to pre-diabetic or type two status, if you’ve been given, even if you’ve got, if your A1C is over 6.4 you’re still going to be all right because we eat meat, vegetables, nuts, eggs, seeds, seafood and fat. Now you’re always going to trigger a little bit of insulin, right? Every single thing that you eat because the cell needs to open up and receive broccoli. It needs to open up and receive steak and avocado in these still need to, your cell needs to open up and receive it, and that’s when insulin does. So you’re going to trigger a little bit, but you’re only going to trigger a little bit. It’s going to do his job and get out of your body, which is what you want because you cannot lose weight in the presence of insulin. It is the fat-producing hormone.

 

Cari:               17:36 Correct. And that is why people who eat all day long [inaudible], they give themselves food. They have to give themselves insulin. Maybe they gave himself a little bit too much or they didn’t count their carbs and then all of a sudden their blood sugar goes down. They get that horrible feeling like you’re going to be sick. That nausea it. Everybody has had low blood sugar. Hypoglycemia knows what I’m talking about. So they eat a little more an hour later. Then they just, they’re constantly in this up and down thing. And this is why we teach on Code Red, no snacking. Because not only whether a diabetic or not, you guys, this applies to my nine-year-old daughter. You’re beating your core pancreas up. It’s like process, process. Give me insulin, do it, do it. Your stomach, everything doesn’t have a hot minute to rest.

 

Cari:               18:24 And so even my own husband today, you can’t see me rolling my eyes unless you’re watching, asked me. So snacking, I was like, Ani, no, we don’t snack on Code Red. Give your body a time. And this is especially true for diabetics or prediabetic people. It’s true for everybody, but it’s even truer because like Cristy said, the insulin goes and it gets out. That’s what you want.

 

Cristy:             18:48 And I think it’s podcast number two or three. I specifically talk about if you want to go back and watch those, I specifically talk about why we don’t eat frequently on Code Red. What it does, it beats up your system but it causes you to secrete insulin all day long and your body cannot get it back down to baseline and you really are beating yourself up. I thought it was funny Cari, when you talk about then you get a lot of tickets.

 

Cristy:             19:12, Of course, Cari runs the medical is, you guys know when we talk about tickets, they are emails that come to our help desk to customer service and carry handles the medical stuff. And we see this on our social media. And then when you get this in private emails of people who say, my blood sugar, I get real, I can’t eat Code Red cause I get really shaky. And he always laughs when you’re like, yeah Bob, you’re, you’re getting shaky cause you’re, that’s the thing.

 

Cari:               19:35 Hey, if your A1C is seven yo, your blood sugars are running high, they’re running high, and then all of a sudden you change your eating and you start eating the proper human diet, a Code Red version, whatever you want to do, but you’re not eating hours and SpaghettiOs. Well, yeah, Bob, you’ve been running 300 for the last 10 years.

 

Cari:               19:56, Of course, you’re going to feel like crap when you get to one 20 you are, you’re going to feel miserable. Your body is going to take a hot minute to get used to it. Let me give you another example of this. So if you always have high blood pressure, you always have like you run high your whole entire life and then somebody gives you some medication for your high blood pressure. Let’s say you’re sick, you’re in the ER, they give it to you in your Ivy, like we do an ICU, and all of a sudden your blood pressure goes to one 10 over 21 to not over 20 I’m going to get people written in one 10 over 60 let’s just say, so for me, Cari, that would be a high blood pressure. Also for Cristy, we don’t run that high. That’s just not our nature. But for someone who’s running 200 over a hundred you’re going to feel horrible with a blood pressure that low, you’re going to sweat, you’re going to feel really bad.

 

Cari:               20:46 That is exactly is one 10 over 60 in normal blood pressure? Absolutely. But to someone who’s running 200 over 100 they’re going to feel terrible. So it’s not the drop. It’s where you were before. So that’s the exact same thing with blood sugar. If you’re running three hundred all the time or two 50s or whatever, you’re not going to feel good in a normal range right away. You really aren’t.

 

Cristy:             21:10 And the body, the brain needs glucose, but the body, so the brain functions best right around, I mean for the average person, right around a hundred you’re going to notice Code Red rebels. We just run low. We just don’t have a lot of of sugar in our body and our body has adjusted. So for a rebel to run 65 70 75 and a nothing like it’s no big deal for our fasting glucose to be that low and we’re just used to it.

 

Cristy:             21:33 So the body will get used to it. But you have to give it time Bob for your body to get used to the normal range. Oh and Bob’s like, Oh, you know, and he really is feeling it. He’s not, they really feel like crappy but, and then he wants to go and eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and because he gets panicky, but don’t panic if you’re eating the proper human diet and you’re trying to bring yourself down. I mean you might give different advice. But Cari, I mean I’m a, I’m a culture you kind of person, but maybe if someone who runs that high as trying to get down to code red maybe should titrate. I think it depends on the person. It depends on what’s going on with you. Here’s the thing I really want to tell you guys though, and we say this all the time, but especially I don’t know how much, how many carbs diabetics eat.

 

Cari:               22:18 But you know we definitely are carbs. Any carbs that we consume on Code Red are in veggie carbs. So you know there’s the fiber, there’s all that. So it’s a different kind of food. You guys, it’s just a different molecular makeup. It’s going to hit your system differently. I will tell you that having had stomach surgeries, cause you all know that I’m a failed weight loss surgery survivor, that I have something called dumping syndrome. If I eat anything that’s not Code Red-approved and my blood sugar will dump and remember it’s not how low it’s getting. It’s the difference between what it is normally to what it is now. So it’s a very, I know how that hypoglycemia feels. It’s a horrible panicky feeling. So trust me, I do understand. I don’t want you to get so low that you’re sick to your stomach that you’re throwing up.

 

Cari:               23:02 You know, I want you to be reasonable. So you may need to eat something initially because you got to realize you’ve gone from eating a lot of processed food and a lot of carbohydrates and sugar everyday to none. Here’s the most important thing folks. You need to be in touch with your primary care provider and you have to start with their help. Let them know I’m eating. And you don’t have to go into the big don’t, I mean just don’t go there. It’ll just cause problems. Just say, I’m really cutting back on my processed foods and my sugar. Can you help me with my medication? They need to help you cut back your Metformin, your Glucophage, your insulin. You may need to keep track of your blood sugars more regularly. You cannot a thousand milligrams of, you know, whatever you were doing before and eat no carbs.

 

Cari:               23:51 I mean, you will be not feeling good. So it’s really important that you’re in contact with your docs about titrating your milk, your medications.

 

Cristy:             23:58 You will need to bring that the medication down. You’re just not going to have the demand for it. I’m a, we had a rebel that was on a hundred units a day and now she’s on zero and so, and she had a pump, a mini-med pump and so you will need your medications adjusted. If you notice that you’re losing weight and you’re eating off the food list, you’re going through the program and you’re not feeling really good. It’s because you’re taking too much insulin and you will know and you don’t know it. So we do definitely, you need to stay in touch, make sure, and even I’ve even said to, you know, to take your food list and although it’s a proper human diet, so it’s not like it’s seeing what’s real food, water and sleep.

 

Cristy:             24:35 And so it’s always fun to meet people like, oh, I don’t know about that. Oh you want me eating the pop tarts? And the oatmeal means healthy whole grains. So I’m going to eat healthy whole grains that I have to then take insulin for it to cover. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. It doesn’t make any sense to me. I just don’t, I don’t understand. And I know that the typical diabetic nurse educator, and maybe it’s changed, but they were like a hundred grams of carbs per meal and Oh my God, 300 grams a day. Oh my goodness. You know, and you need to understand that if your blood sugars are fluctuating a lot like they probably are now on the standard American diet, they will regulate and normalize. Once you get on Code Red, get completely detoxed from the crap and let your blood sugars come down and just eat the two meals a day.

 

Cari:               25:21 With high fat, you’re going to notice a steady stream of energy that your body will adjust and fairly quickly. And we see people that are having results the next morning, two days later, a week into Code Red. It’s true, Cristy, it’s just really important. Some people do dump at night, meaning their blood sugars go low at night. You know, you may want to have the glucose tabs on hand. Nut butter is a great alternative. You know, pop a couple of strawberries and I am not suggesting that for everybody, but if you do dump during the and just wait it out, wait it out. Keep track of your blood sugars. But I do want to say that please do not be dangerous. Let me make this very clear. I hope my, our lawyers are listening. No, let me make it very clear. Please follow the advice of your doctor as far as titration.

 

Cari:               26:05 You really need to get help with that and for God’s sakes, do not quit taking all your insulin instantly and then be like, code red told me to quit taking my insulin. Just like Cristy, we were growing up, the guy that threw his TV in the river because God told him to, which of course, again, since you guys haven’t heard this story in a while, we were very poor. Cristy and I were like, why doesn’t he give his TV to us? But God told him to throw his TV in the river. Well back then TVs were expensive. I mean, so he threw his CV in the river. So please do not quit taking all your medication without help from your primary care provider. And then be like, God told me or told me to throw my insulin, my insulin in a river. Don’t know.

 

Cristy:             26:47 No, I don’t. I don’t want to go down this rabbit hole too far. But I do want to say that healthy people make a lot of sense, but they don’t make a lot of dollars guys. And the government, the industry does not want to see you go down to two meals a day. I mean, industry, the food industry wants you to buy more food. That’s their job. They want you to buy more food. They want you to eat three meals and two snacks. You’re consuming more food. Imagine all of us, what would happen if all of us had two meals a day? We will be consuming so much less food. So you might get some pushback. You might get. And I hope your doctor, I just, I mean the first rule in, in being a medical doctor is first to do no harm. So I, I really hope that they are on board with this.

 

Cristy:             27:28 I’ve seen a lot of a few old school medical doctors that just aren’t, you know, aren’t really on board with this whole new way of thinking of high fat, low carb. But guys, I mean you’re not going to see a whole lot of support from the pharmaceutical industry. They want you to take those meds. It’s a lot of money to be made off of you being sick.

 

Cari:               27:45 Oh, absolutely. Cristy. And remember if I can give you guys any piece of advice as you approached your primary care provider. Be honest, but keep it simple. Don’t go into the whole, you know Cristy, like unless they ask like just not that we’re saying lie, we’re just saying keep it simple. I’m eating real food, I’m drinking water, I’m sleeping and I’m cutting out processed foods and sugar. There’s no need to go into a bit crazy. I have found that this is the advice that we give our clients.

 

Cari:               28:18 Just keep it very simple and just say, can you help me titrate my medication? That is it. You don’t, and remember your doctor really should partner with you in your healthcare journey and if you don’t have a doctor or a nurse practitioner or a PA that partners with you the gets done to find somebody else. I mean come on. You know it’s like, but that’s my personal opinion. Those, I’m not giving you medical advice. I’m just saying that it’s really important that you partner with your doctor on all things, your thyroid, your periods, you know, anything you have going on. It’s super important to be in a partnership. I liked that partnership and we hope that you better understand pre-diabetes, A1C, glucose levels, your blood sugar levels and not, don’t get scared by those terms. Don’t be, no, we used to call it the sugars.

 

Cristy:             29:08 I used to have a case of this sugar, diabetes and just as triggers, you know, my grandma had these sugars. Now we’re seeing diabetics in children and doctors just aren’t trained to handle that. And so they’ve really seen a shift in how we’ve got diabetic 11-year-olds and it’s just not good guys to handle it. They’re just not trained to give them the right food advice. They know how to teach. They know how to give insulin, they can get you good. But if you don’t have to do the insulin, like if you don’t not, you don’t have to. If you can minimize that in your body, you know, well if you can manage your diabetes with your food, that’s what is always optimal. We got to get you out of that danger status back into the normal pancreas function. You know, and you can’t lose weight in the presence of insulin guys.

 

Cristy:             29:51 So you really don’t want to be eating all day long. Just be aware now you know, now you can’t unknow you know, cause Cristy and Cari told you that really easy to understand the way of diabetes, pre-diabetic tied to that kind of thing. So I hope you enjoyed this. I enjoy it. I love talking about this is. I do too. It’s my favorite thing to talk about and please do not be scared. Just check it out. Check out our program if you need help, go to our help desk and I’m happy to answer any questions. I have some information about diabetes on there and some great videos I want you to watch. Absolutely guys, 10-pound Takedown Challenge is happening, so go to 10poundtakedown.com. The link is in the show notes. Click on that.

 

Cristy:             30:35 If you’re driving, please don’t touch your phone. Just listen to us talk. Let it just go to the next episode please. We’ll use please don’t text and drive, but if you are somewhere and you want to just click the link, that’s easy for you and thank you so much for joining us. We love you guys all. We want you as rebels. We want Code Red kids. We want you guys on our program. Join the next challenge. Become a rebel of the proper human diet. Cari, thank you for joining me. Thank you. You guys have a good one.

 

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