Where do I start?

Waking up in the ICU

And there I was, waking up in the ICU. Blurry at first, looking around, checking out my surroundings, and noticed and recalled that I was in a different country with everyone speaking different languages with a different language.

And then I recalled how I got here.

The events that led there

Earlier that day I was out for a walk. Everything was going great. Got to a location I was going to settle down and have a drink and something to eat, and my chest started tightening up. And it radiated across my whole shoulders, from shoulder to shoulder. And I started sweating profusely. I knew something wasn't normal. And I had to get help.

Next thing I know, I wake up in the ICU. It was a bit of trying to get my bearings while in there and trying to find out... was I still on this earth or not?

So I found out that I had a full blockage, I had a heart attack, and that it was time for my recovery phase, or figuring out what was next. Where do I go from here, right? Where do I start?

A second diagnosis

And then what emerged out of that was I eventually realized I was dealing with a lot on my hands, because the next surprise was... as I was going to get discharged from the hospital one day before that I was told I had type 2 diabetes.

And so things became very real. And for me, I was scrambling to grasp what that actually meant. How did I need to translate that into what I do next?

Again, I was alone in this foreign country. and so my bearings were lost. Me, I'm so used to having things planned out and knowing what I'm going to do and I didn't know what to do. All I knew I was alive and breathing.

So that's where I had to reflect on, again, you know, have to figure out a plan here. Have to figure out a plan of what does this entail? How do I recover properly?

Alone, with a bag of medications

I'm looking at my hand as I'm exiting the hospital finally, and I've got a bag full of drugs, prescriptions, and insulin. And I've been instructed how to use this, and that I was on this the rest of my life.

But being alone, I didn't have time to digest that. All I knew is I just need to clear my head and figure out next steps for me. which included all the instructions for the medical community. There was no roadmap for this in my life.

Where the five pillars came from

And so this is where I came up with these pillars, these five pillars, and being able to concentrate on each one individually to master it, to help fix my broken metabolic health and get on a road to recovery.

So very overwhelmed, overloaded, and this is my story about how these five pillars, which is supplementation, nutrition, sleep, stress, and movement. These five pillars is what, how I structured, how I structured my recovery over the next few years to get into a spot now where I'm in better shape than I was have ever been mentally and physically and cardiovascularly.

So I welcome you along as I dive in to each of these pillars that you can use wherever you're starting, wherever you find that you need help. You might not be in the same eye-opening moment as I have, but I'm sure somewhere in your life you know, one of these pillars is something you'd like to improve. And I welcome you to be part of that.

And to, this is the great thing about it, is that you can't master all your whole life in one fail-sweep. You're not going to get the results you need and you want. And that's why when people say they want to lose weight, that is, recipe for not it's not going to happen long term and Why is the weight on there? You know is it like you know is it one of these other? Pillars that's causing the weight to be on and that's the root cause of what you want to accomplish

So if you get out of the short term trying to get out short-term benefits and get more long-term gain that's a winning formula for sustainability and So thank you again and look forward to having you along and subscribing for notifications on my posts as I dive into the details that can help you and other ones you love.