Healthy lifestyle or lifestyle disease? It's a choice.
Imagine this. Someone who has never been fat or obese. Who always eats home cooked food. Never indulges into snacks or processed food.
Do you think this individual can develop lifestyle diseases? Most of us would be shocked if the answer is yes!
And so was Ramkumar - an IT guy turned entrepreneur from Bangalore - after his health checkup in December of 2018.
His fasting sugar was 235, post prandial sugar was 316 and his HbA1c was 10.8. As if that wasn't enough, his liver tests were off the charts - 3 times the normal range!
The reason? The usual culprits - sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy eating habits and hereditary issues.
Doctors suggested him to get started with insulin. He wasn't comfortable with that, so settled for a high dosage of oral medication instead. But the fatty liver was bothering him. He was looking for a more fundamental solution.
"At that point of time, I was blessed to come across Wellness Quotient and got connected to a wellness coach", he says. Apart from other changes, Ramkumar was suggested to adopt zero oil cooking as part of his lifestyle.
"With in three months, my HbA1c dropped to 6.1 and now it's 5.6. On top of that, my liver parameters are normal", says a relieved Ramkumar.
After losing 19 kilos, he is at 72 kilos now.
Today he says, "I'm completely out of my diabetic medication. And I'm able to maintain normal sugar levels without medication."
(Wellness Quotient proudly presents one of their WQ Champion Ramkumar's journey as yet another hope for many out there who want to achieve wellness but are uncertain if they can too!)