by Konstantin Monastyrsky

“A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair—a process in time. It is good as a whole through being good in its parts, and through their good order to one another.”

Mortimer J. Adler, The Time of Our Lives
The Ethics of Common Sense, Ch. 2

Parting With Diabetes,
Part by Part

You are unique, and not a single reputable physician, weight loss counselor, or certified diabetes educators can tell you in advance what kind of diet-breaking exceptions may be happening throughout the entire length of your weight loss program. This level of uncertainty goes up with age, extra weight, and pre-existing medical conditions.

If you lack the expert guidance to overcome these exceptions the moment they happen, or do not make essential corrections and adjustments throughout the journey, your chance of attaining permanent weight loss goes down, and the probability of damaging your health and appearance goes up.

For these and other reasons — some practical, some esoteric, — my associates and I will assist you through all of the major milestones of your program by developing your weight loss plan first, executing a transitional diet second, overseeing a low-calorie weight reduction diet until you attain your target weight and normalize blood suger, third, and, finally, helping you to transform your accomplishments into a diabetes-free lifestyle.

For as long as you remain 100% compliant with our program, the program delivers, period.

Here is what each of these milestones entails, part by part:

Part 1. Preparing a Personalized Weight Loss Plan

To start the process, you‘ll need to complete the following three tasks:

1. Answer all of the questions in the Health History Questionnaire provided by your counselor. This exceptionally detailed document provides me with background information about your health, family, and dieting history that can never be learned so consistently through a casual interview. This information is essential for preparing a weight loss plan that is, indeed, custom-tailored to your individual needs.

2. Obtain current blood tests and body measurements from your physician. This information is necessary to track your weight loss and recovery progress, to keep you motivated, and to safely transition from one stage of your program to another. Also, if you take diabetes-related drugs, the outcomes of your intermediate check-ups will allow your doctor to reduce or discontinue them safely and responsibly.

3. Complete a detailed seven day log of your diet by writing down or photographing every single morsel of food and drink that passes your lips. This log will also include questions about the quality and length of your sleep, energy levels, basal body temperature, blood pressure, and pulse rate, the volume and frequency of stools and urination, and so on.

With all of the above information gathered, your counselor can proceed through a series of detailed interviews that may span several sessions. We will take as much time as needed to get to know each other well, to gain insights into your lifestyle, discuss your goals and objectives, and learn your concerns.

This thorough, factual, and analytical approach allows me to get a good grasp of your relevant background, dietary preferences, and lifestyle, so there is no mismatch between your day-to-day reality and my recommendations.

At the end of these interviews, your counselor will present you with your recovery and weight loss plan, and will thoroughly discuss with you all aspects of your weight loss program, such as its duration, probability of success, possible obstacles, and other relevant topics. Also, you‘ll be able to ask as many questions as you may have, so you commence the program with a complete understanding of what you are getting into, why, what to expect, and by when.

Part 2. Executing the Transitional Diet

The transitional diet is the most critical and assistance-intensive stage of your weight loss program. The quality of execution and its effectiveness determines your ability to attain and retain a normal weight..

When the transitional diet isn‘t done right, you may encounter a stubborn weight loss plateau, damage your health, ruin your appearance, and even gain more weight after aborting the underperforming diet.

A gradual and deliberate transitional diet is especially important if you are already affected by digestive and metabolic disorders typical for people with pre-diabetes and diabetes. I have already discussed the safety and logistical reasons behind the importance of a transitional diet in the preceding seminar.

Your counselor will be able to estimate the duration of your transitional diet only after completing your recovery and weight loss plan. In general, the older you are, and the more health problems you have accumulated — the longer the transition, especially if you are already taking multiple drugs to control blood sugar and counteract their side-effects, such as hypertension, fatigue, or depression.

It may also take you a considerable time to bring down an elevated level of insulin, which is partially related to your unconditional reflexes. Alas, the “unconditioning” of reflexes acquired over a lifetime takes time. The actual length of time depends on your personality, lifestyle, and occupation. Expansive, emotional personalities combined with a high stress lifestyle and occupation take the longest because insulin controls not only blood sugar levels, but also the first stage of the “fight or flight” response to stress, one of the primary non-food factors in the pathogenesis of obesity and diabetes.

Throughout the entire duration of your transition, we‘ll be discussing your progress every two weeks. Whenever you run into a problem between consultations, you‘ll be able to ask your counselor relevant questions by e-mail as often as you need my assistance, subject to the acceptable use policy. You really want to “squelch” these problems while they are still pesky sparks rather than raging bonfires.

There are pretty specific criteria for determining a successful completion of your transitional diet:

1. Reduced hunger, appetite, and cravings. You are no longer affected by severe hunger, hunger pains, insatiable appetite, and/or unbearable sugar cravings. For as long as you are alive and healthy, some hunger, some appetite, and some cravings are expected, but those normal physiological functions are fairly straightforward to manage without breaking down the program.

2. Stable blood sugar. You no longer experience the common symptoms of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), such as dizziness, blurry vision, fatigue, and migraine headaches.

3. Normalized blood tests. Your fasting blood sugar, A1C, and triglycerides are close to or within the normal range. I recommend having relevant blood tests every 45 days while on the transitional diet, and 90 days thereafter. Continuously improving tests will comfort your doctors and family, and are a great motivator for you too. I require them in order to track your progress and compliance.

4. No need for medication. You no longer need to take sugar-lowering medications. Commencing a low-calorie weight reduction diet while taking these drugs isn‘t safe because of profound hypoglycemia risks, or practical because they drive up relentless hunger and appetite.

5. Quality of sleep. Your sleep has improved, and you no longer wake up more than once per night to urinate. These are good signs of normalized blood sugar and reduced levels of insulin.

6. Adequate digestion. You do not experience any significant digestive distress, such as indigestion, GERD, heartburn, bloating, or constipation. If you have a prior history of constipation, straining, and hemorrhoidal disease, you may still need a palliative to maintain regularity because of the organic (i.e. irreversible) transformation of your large intestine, rectum, and anus, and related nerve damage [link].

7. Stable weight. Your weight is steady, or you no longer experience measurable weight loss. This means that your diet and energy expenditure are in balance, that you have lost all of the phantom weight, and that further weight loss can only be accomplished by additional reduction of your calorie intake — the objective of the next step.

Part 3. Overseeing a low-calorie weight reduction diet until you attain your target weight

As I have already mentioned in the preceding “how-to” seminar, if the transitional diet is done right, the low-calorie weight reduction diet runs its course pretty much on auto-pilot, and you may require only minimal support. By “auto-pilot” I mean that your endocrine and digestive systems are well adapted to the reduced calorie diet, so you no longer experience any significant or unexpected diet-breaking exceptions.

Throughout this stage, your counselor will assist you to accomplish the following objectives:

1. To determine the proper composition and energy content of the weight reduction diet based on the outcomes of your transitional diet;

2. To monitor exceptions, make necessary adjustments, and to help you along when encountering obstacles.

3. To track and assess the progress of your weight loss, and to make sure you are losing only body fat, not muscle or bone tissue.

The last task is important because there is a fine line between weight loss and body wasting. Crossing that line isn't going to make you look any better or healthier regardless of your weight.

A deliberately slow rate of weight loss prevents your skin from sagging by allowing it to contract gradually. This approach reduces or eliminates the appearance of undesirable folds, creases, and wrinkles, and it applies not only to the face and neck, but also to the abdomen, buttocks, breasts, underarms, and other fat-heavy regions.

If, at any point, you'll find that further weight loss is undesirable from a purely cosmetic point of view, we'll assist you in stopping it while still maintaining a stable weight and normal blood sugar.

You may also improve your post-weight loss appearance by rebuilding muscles with the help of dynamic exercises. Regular vigorous workouts may also improve your stature, strengthen your bones, enhance your skin tone, and build a fire under your energy metabolism, so you can enjoy a more varied diet without affecting your weight.

Part 4. Supplements for safe and effective weight loss

Extended low-calorie weight reduction diets without adequate supplementation cause undernutrition because they lack essential vitamins, minerals, and microelements that are present in more varied and abundant regular diets.

Undernutrition may harm your health, exacerbate diabetes, and stall weight loss, especially if you are past middle age, or already have a history of metabolic and digestive disorders.

In addition to preventing undernutrition, quality supplements enhance weight loss by increasing the rate of your energy and structural metabolism, improving digestion, reducing hunger and appetite, normalizing thyroid functions, and averting anemia. For these reasons I recommend taking professional-grade supplements throughout the entire length of the transitional and weight reduction diet [link].

To assure the safety and effectiveness of your weight loss program, I recommend taking professional-grade supplements that are manufactured for my company in the United States by professional supplement contract manufacturers from pharmaceutical-grade components, and in accordance with United States Pharmacopeia (USP28) and audited standard operating procedures (SOP's).

If you run into any problem while taking supplements made even by another equally reputable company, I wouldn't be able to assist you with related questions because I can only vouch for the performance of the supplements that I am intimately familiar with from the experience of our clients, my family, and myself.

Supplements cost between $60 to $80 per month. May be slightly more if you have some special needs, such as chronic constipation, enzymatic deficiency, inflammatory bowel disease, and similar disorders. This cost will be offset many times over by your reduced expenditures on foods, snacks, drinks, and dining out. Ditto with savings on multiple medications, co-pays, and deductibles.

Part 5. Staying slim, fit, and healthy for the rest of your life

Believe it or not, it isn‘t difficult to eat considerably less, especially after you get up in the morning, and enjoy your new, slimmer body; or when total strangers, particularly little children, stare at you because you “don‘t look right” for your age; or when you catch an unconscious smile from a passersby, or get extra attention in service establishments, or when your friends and doctors are stunned at your amazing transformation, or you suddenly get a promotion or a raise, and on, and on, and on...

To make sure that these benefits of my program stay with you for the rest of your long and healthy life, it must become a lifestyle. More varied, less restrictive, but still different.

Ultimately, you can attain a normal weight, and, to the extent possible, recover from diabetes ONLY if you accept full and unconditional responsibility for your past, current, and future choices and actions, do not repeat the same mistakes again, and turn the core principles of my program into a life-long lifestyle.

On the other hand, re-imposing the responsibility for your prior actions and lifestyle onto a third party, payment or not, will not make you any healthier or any thinner.

Program availability

Our diabetes reversal program isn‘t available at the present time because it is still in production and is pending a treatment trial. We expect its earliest public availability by the middle of 2011. Please visit this page often for additional details and progress reports.