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In this episode we learn that the very first step we must take to heal our bodies is to become our own cheerleaders! If you are diabetic or prediabetic and want to be cheered on by a squad of amazing women who are also learning to heal their bodies, join us for group coaching! Email me at SweetlyGifted@gmail.com to get started. #squadgoals

SWEETLY GIFTED with COCO QUINN: The podcast for women who are struggling with Type II #Diabetes, or are Pre-Diabetic, and want to learn how to heal their bodies! 💕

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Fortunate

I just recorded and posted my first podcast, Sweetly Gifted with Coco Quinn. It’s all about helping women who are struggling with Type II or Pre-Diabetes and want to learn to heal their bodies. It brought me back to this blog site I created and added just one post to in February of 2015. Back then I was on a mission to spend a year learning everything I needed to to reverse my diagnosis. That was a journey I began and quit over and over again... I thought that maybe going “public” with my struggle through this blog would keep me accountable. I don’t remember how far I got before I gave up defeated again that time... because it was just one of so many false starts and painful failures.

In November of 2016, I mustered all my courage, strength, nerve, hope and sheer desperation and decided that THIS TIME would be different. This time I was keeping the same goal, I WILL REVERSE MY DIABETES, and NOT give up. If my weight-loss stalled on one program, I’d pick up something new. I committed to embarking on this journey once again... the Monday after Thanksgiving. And this time, Thankfully, I fucking did it. 

It took about six months from that week after Thanksgiving start to hit my goal. I blew my own mind. It’d struggled for 20 years to lose weight. I’d lost and regained the same 20 pounds over and over. It started coming off so easily that last month, I started to have panic attacks. My whole identity shifted, my relationship to my body and to the world through this new, thin body brought up things I’m still learning to navigate my way through. But I’ve kept 25 pounds off for over a year now. I have probably another 25 to go to be where I want to be, but the good news is that now I have the tools to embark on this next leg of my journey. 

I met a girl named Liz the other day (you can hear her story here) who is where I was in that February 2015 post... desperately trying to keep her spirits up and think positively about her ability to change, while at the same time horrified by the choices she feels out of control making. I was THERE! I know the way out. I’m not perfect, not even where I want to be right now physically, but I’ve learned a hell of a lot. I’m sharing my story now so I can help other women who are feeling trapped THERE... in the dark place where they can’t see how they could possibly lose weight, keep it off, and improve their health. 

I’m further ahead of you on the path to health and wellness and weight loss, and there are some rocky patches for sure up here, but if you’re ready to make drastic changes, why not journey along with me... I’d love the company. 

From one sweetly gifted gal to another... let me tell you... the ways my life has changed for the better because I suddenly had this scary diagnosis fall in my lap... the way it pushed me to get back up and try again after I finished licking my wounds from the last time I failed, because it was so big and scary... It truly was a gift. And I’m not returning it. 

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In this episode a new friend shares her current struggles with diabetes and we get real about how dark things can get with this diagnosis. I spent five years stuck in that same dark place. I never could have guessed back then that the path I'd take to eventually reverse my diabetes would improve my life on so many other levels... that I could look back at that diagnosis as a sweet, sweet gift.

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Street Fair Fortune 

I didn't even know something was off with my body before my diabetes diagnosis. My friend Jaime pulled me into a booth at a Los Feliz street fair where they were doing free blood sugar screenings one Sunday morning. I knew something wasn't right when the volunteer testing me kind of freaked out when my numbers popped up, then rechecked them on another gadget (assuming the first had made a mistake) and then called in reinforcement from fellow volunteers asking, "What do we do?" and, in rather a panic, "Do you feel okay?"

I was embarrassed at the fuss and self-conscious that my friends (more from our group had stopped in by then) were hearing news about me that I was just learning and hadn't processed yet. If something was wrong enough with my body to cause this kind of reaction from strangers, why didn't I feel sick? I was diagnosed shortly after that.

This diagnosis is a gift, an opportunity for me to learn to listen to my body and make choices that are loving and honor it. It's just a gift I want to return as soon as possible. The reaction I've had from most people I've spoken to is that diabetes is reversible. I'm going to spend the next 12 months learning everything I can about this condition, interviewing experts and hopefully some people who have managed to cure themselves as I attempt to do the same.