Back to the Kitchen!

Supe's Kitchen is Back!

Friday, April 24, 2015

Supe's Kitchen is Back!

 

In the beginning the Supe's Kitchen was designed to direct those who needed a healthy change in their life.  It began with me being diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic.  After having been told for about five years that I was a pre-diabetic, I finally crossed over to the full blown diabetic side.  Not a side I wanted to be on, but with my eating habits, coupled with my outstanding workout routine...NOT... it was not a matter of "IF" but when.  So as I stared at the bottle of pills on my counter that I was supposed to take twice a day, I thought......Nope...... you did this to yourself, so get yourself out of it.  So I did!  I combed through every article I could find about type 2 diabetes and I found that it is reversible and reversing it was what I intended on doing.  Long story short.... I identified the right foods that would aid in weight loss, but would also help reverse the condition I had created.  I learned how foods interacted with the body and how to put them together for optimal health benefits, along with weight loss.  I introduced exercise over time, with simple things like walking and then jogging.  I utilized everyday routines to incorporate new ways to get whatever exercise I could, however so small, and you know it worked.  I lost 52 pounds in 11 weeks.  At my 3 month checkup for my type 2 diabetes the doctor said "keep taking your medicine, it seems to be working."  I just smiled and said, "I never took a one."  He said whatever you are doing, keep doing it and make sure you tell everyone you can, because it works!  So I did that very thing.  I started the Supe's Kitchen here at school for our staff members.  I introduced them to the healthy meals that I had put together, along with the exercises that could be done here at campus.  We had weekly meetings on Wednesdays after school.  In seven weeks, my staff had lost a total of 59 pounds and walked a distance from Mason Public Schools in Mason, Oklahoma to the mouth of the Grand Canyon National Park.  Our staff received a financial reward from a corporate sponsor for a job well done. That reward was donated to Relay for Life.  I was so proud of my staff.  But most of all, I was proud of the life style they had chosen,  a life style of "Eating to Live" not living to eat.  That was more than two years ago.  Time has passed and bad habits have started creeping back in.  I remember!  I remember how I felt before Supe's Kitchen and I remember the feeling of frustration with myself for letting type 2 diabetes get a foothold.  I remember that I said "never again" and so, before I continue to head further down that road to diabetes, I choose to head back to the kitchen.....  Join me on this journey back to a healthier me and you.  I will post recipes and exercises that I will incorporate in my daily routines.  My goal is somewhere back around 190#s.  FYI that is about 30#s from here.  See you there!

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