Business owners are hard wired to achieve results!  Entrepreneurs grow companies.  We don’t sit around and wait for things to happen.  Like many of you, I was the hard charging workaholic that neglected my health to grow a company.  I had a thousand excuses of why I couldn’t devote more time to that area in my life.

1. I have to much work and not enough time.
2. I am a business person and not an athlete.
3. I can’t afford to waste my time at the gym.
4. All food is the same and I’m not a health nut.

These were my excuses and decrees of why I couldn’t be in shape and health.  So, I worked, and worked, and worked…  At the age of 29 years old, I started getting sick.  Perhaps it was the 60-70 hour work weeks, or the 4 hours of sleep per night.  Perhaps it was all the steaks and hamburgers or even the sedentary office life.   I’m not quite sure what it was, but a doctor visit one afternoon told me that I had a 500 mg/dL reading.

You would think that I was some overweight, sloppy guy who just was over eating.  The truth was, I weighed only 185 pounds when I was the sickest.  I wore a size 36 pants, didn’t smoke, and was a very light drinker.  So why was I so sick?  Why was I getting up to pee four times a night? Why was I so sleepy?  Diabetes was ravaging my body and I was the victim of personal negligence.

It was September 29th, 2006 and I remember the day like it was yesterday.  After visiting the doctor, he basically said that he thought I had type 1 diabetes because of my age and weight.  For me, that would mean an insulin pump and finger pricks about ten times a day.  However, the doctor wasn’t right!  I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes by an endocrinologist about a month later and put on a heavy dosage of medication and insulin.  With in about 3 months I was feeling much better, but the fact was I was still stuck with diabetes and trying to make sense of how I got it. Continue Reading…