1 00:00:20,740 --> 00:00:20,990 [music] 2 00:00:20,949 --> 00:00:26,560 My family history with diabetes started with my Mother. She was diagnosed back in 1980. 3 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:31,390 I was aware of it more in the nineties. And just learning the hardship of what she’s 4 00:00:31,390 --> 00:00:34,690 gone through, I wanted to prevent it for myself and family. 5 00:00:34,690 --> 00:00:41,330 Being my mom’s caregiver was an eye-opener. Just coming in and taking care of her, talking 6 00:00:41,330 --> 00:00:45,460 with her, taking her back and forth to the doctor’s appointments, making sure she took 7 00:00:45,460 --> 00:00:51,100 her medication on time, eating right. That was a personal wake up call for me to want 8 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:53,750 to take better care of myself. 9 00:00:53,750 --> 00:00:59,930 I realized that I needed to lose weight after going to my physician. Speaking with my doctor 10 00:00:59,930 --> 00:01:04,909 and him letting me know that my weight was high and I was also experiencing high blood 11 00:01:04,909 --> 00:01:05,570 pressure. 12 00:01:05,570 --> 00:01:11,840 In the beginning, me trying to take the approach of losing weight—it was not easy. I did 13 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:18,810 fall. I did struggle. My first step was just to get up, get out, and walk. Those were one 14 00:01:18,810 --> 00:01:19,420 of my first things. 15 00:01:19,420 --> 00:01:24,280 I knew that I would eventually have to take the approach on food, but my first thing was 16 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:29,399 getting active and just getting motivated to get out. 17 00:01:29,399 --> 00:01:34,600 Physically and mentally I did notice a change. I noticed a change just for the simple fact 18 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,689 of getting out and moving. I started to drop weight. 19 00:01:37,689 --> 00:01:43,600 As far as physical activity, the things that I do now that I did not used to do: I went 20 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:49,819 and bought an exercise ball, I get out to bike ride more, when I’m coming home, if 21 00:01:49,819 --> 00:01:53,549 we have a little bit of extra time, I try to get out and play football with my husband 22 00:01:53,549 --> 00:01:58,149 and my children, and when I’m in the area, maybe taking a walk with my mom. 23 00:01:58,149 --> 00:02:04,880 My eating habits and portion control has been a great impact in maintaining my weight loss. 24 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:11,319 We try to eat out of smaller plates. Then also just staying motivated with moving, having 25 00:02:11,319 --> 00:02:12,670 fun, and exercising. 26 00:02:12,670 --> 00:02:19,670 Some of the things I do to reward myself, I don’t keep myself from everything. One 27 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:25,700 of my favorite things to do to reward myself is, I still keep in portion control, but when 28 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:29,130 we go out to eat, I like to have sushi. 29 00:02:29,130 --> 00:02:35,480 I stay focused to stay on track and meet my goals being a busy mom just by the simple 30 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:41,370 fact of educating my girls and my husband. The more educated they became, it made it 31 00:02:41,370 --> 00:02:45,310 a whole lot easier for me to maintain the good health. 32 00:02:45,310 --> 00:02:51,210 I feel wonderful now. Before, in the past, my mood was down, I had a lot of weight that 33 00:02:51,210 --> 00:02:58,130 I was carrying. And that was just extremely a horrible feeling. But now I feel more motivated, 34 00:02:58,130 --> 00:03:04,420 I feel good about myself to not just stay at this weight, but to continuously lose weight 35 00:03:04,420 --> 00:03:08,970 My advice to a person who’s trying to prevent diabetes, would be to first, get with your 36 00:03:08,970 --> 00:03:14,580 doctor, find out what your numbers are, where your numbers should be. 37 00:03:14,580 --> 00:03:19,340 Reach out and get support from those maybe in your church, your family. Just get highly 38 00:03:19,340 --> 00:03:25,670 educated about diabetes. And if you fall, don’t stay down, get back up again. 39 00:03:25,670 --> 00:03:32,460 To find more tools on preventing type 2 diabetes and managing your weight, visit YourDiabetesInfo.org. 40 00:03:32,460 --> 00:03:33,810 [music] 41 00:03:33,810 --> 00:03:40,810 I’m Latecia Turner. I’m preventing diabetes by losing weight and keeping it off. It’s 42 00:03:41,210 --> 00:03:42,830 not easy, but it’s worth it!