Hi. I'm Jason. We have a mutual friend, Kitty Aal. She pointed me in this direction. I typed this all out yesterday on my phone, but I don't think I clicked on the comment button. If it is somewhere else on here or another video, then ignore this one. I really appreciate this video series. I'm a big, fat Chicago guy and I love big fat Chicago food. I am large enough and was fit enough in my youth to still be called "husky" at 300 lbs, but I know I am straight up fat. My family history and experience with food is very similar to what you described in this series. I've watched my mom poorly manage T2D for the past 25 years. I have quit a bunch of things in life that I was really good at in my twenties and early thirties, including alcohol, cigarettes, vicodin, fentanyl patches, weed, etc. The mechanism of addiction and that collecting behavior is so similar across all of these. Food is the hardest. I was borderline diabetic for years and I did nothing about it. Then at the start of the pandemic my A1C jumped from 6 to 12 in only a few months. I was eating like garbage and working 12 hour days six days a week. So I graduated to full on T2D and despite being on metformin for nearly a year now, my glucose still ranges between 120 - 200. I have been half-assing my response to this diagnosis. I finished a whole box of Trader Joes' jelly beans while I was watching your videos yesterday and then smothered some fries in sausage gravy and melted cheddar for dinner and went back for thirds. Nonetheless, a fresh day and your video series fresh in my mind got my fat ass on my bike today and I ate well. Keep up the good work! You have a really engaging narrative style and I hope to see other stuff from you as well.
thanks for writing, jason. man, i’m glad to hear you're moving on it. thanks for commenting. i keep seeing so much evidence that experiences are so connected
Hi. I'm Jason. We have a mutual friend, Kitty Aal. She pointed me in this direction. I typed this all out yesterday on my phone, but I don't think I clicked on the comment button. If it is somewhere else on here or another video, then ignore this one. I really appreciate this video series. I'm a big, fat Chicago guy and I love big fat Chicago food. I am large enough and was fit enough in my youth to still be called "husky" at 300 lbs, but I know I am straight up fat. My family history and experience with food is very similar to what you described in this series. I've watched my mom poorly manage T2D for the past 25 years. I have quit a bunch of things in life that I was really good at in my twenties and early thirties, including alcohol, cigarettes, vicodin, fentanyl patches, weed, etc. The mechanism of addiction and that collecting behavior is so similar across all of these. Food is the hardest. I was borderline diabetic for years and I did nothing about it. Then at the start of the pandemic my A1C jumped from 6 to 12 in only a few months. I was eating like garbage and working 12 hour days six days a week. So I graduated to full on T2D and despite being on metformin for nearly a year now, my glucose still ranges between 120 - 200. I have been half-assing my response to this diagnosis. I finished a whole box of Trader Joes' jelly beans while I was watching your videos yesterday and then smothered some fries in sausage gravy and melted cheddar for dinner and went back for thirds. Nonetheless, a fresh day and your video series fresh in my mind got my fat ass on my bike today and I ate well. Keep up the good work! You have a really engaging narrative style and I hope to see other stuff from you as well.
thanks for writing, jason. man, i’m glad to hear you're moving on it. thanks for commenting. i keep seeing so much evidence that experiences are so connected