Carolyn Rivers

I apologize for miss the zoom call. and yes, I thought I would be like my grandparents and my siblings who all have hypertension and most of them diabetes and I didn’t see any way out because at the time I did not know that most of our disease process and other cultural issues was related to learned dietary culture style. Even though I’m a a nurse, it did not register to me or I didn’t make the connection about diet and disease process and most importantly that I had the power to change that direction.

Carolyn Rivers

Nov 3 •

🏆 Wins

No sugar this Halloween

I am happy to say for the first time my life, I did not eat one piece of candy or sugar treat for the past weekend or prior to this weekend during this Halloween season. Not one piece I stayed strictly to my low carb diet and dranked plenty of fluids. Though, there was lots of treats around because my daughter-in-law and son who lives with me, they love to bake. I didn’t touch that either. They wanted to pass out candy. I didn’t touch that either and this is the honest truth. Again, as for as I can remember, this was the very first time in my life that I did not eat any kind of sugar treats of any kind during this past Halloween. I am so happy that I made it through. I feel good. I’m taking this journey day by day, but I’m very serious. I noticed that my shoes are very loose now because I no longer have any swelling in my ankles & feet. Now I can see my ankle bones again! That’s a big deal for me! I am going to consider this a success for this season. OK I gotta go through Thanksgiving and the other major holiday season and then January my 73rd birthday so I’m going to keep trying to make purposeful decisions, but I’m definitely feeling on the right track. I will continue my 10,000 steps and do my exercise daily and try my best to continue to be focused!

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