I’m back from my trip to Mars
Not really. I’m back after a little time off from my writing projects. Right after my last series of posts, I started getting sick. Normal problem with me. Have a few months feeling good and then pow – sick for 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, or even more. This off/on battle with illness has been a part of my life for 2 decades. Well, 6 weeks ago I finally found something that looks to have changed that. Let me tell you my story and my happy ending so far:
All journeys start off with a beginning. Well in my case, several beginnings. A little over twenty years ago I was working as a sheriff’s deputy and had gotten into shape so I could do my job better. I worked out every day, watched what I ate most days, took supplements, etc. All the usual stuff young people do.
While working, I became ill. At first, no worries. I thought it was something that would go away. Over time, I became worse. Constant fever, fatigue, and just feeling like crap all the time. One day, I was trying out to job another police department and during the physical testing, I basically collapsed. Fever was well over 103 at that point. Judy, dating at that point, finally convinced me to go to the doctor. Well, they found nothing. Started giving me drugs of various kinds to try to combat whatever was going on in my body. Massive loads of antibiotics were prescribed. It soon got to the point, I couldn’t work. I called in sick more than I worked and eventually had to leave. Doctors kept piling on drugs. I kept being ill. I can’t remember the name, but they gave me some damn drug that put me into a daze all day. Judy came home from work and ate lunch with me and by the time she got home for the day – I couldn’t remember her coming home for lunch. We ditched that drug fast.
Off and on with the work for the next 18 months until I happen to go in for a checkup and a new doctor discovered what was wrong with me. I had tonsillitis. That’s right a simple case of tonsillitis that no one could discover over the last 18 months. He scheduled me for surgery, scraped out the tonsils, parts of my throat, and a little bit of the uvula that hangs down the back your mouth. Guess what? I got better and the constant fever and other symptoms went away.
I would like to have ended the story there, but I can’t. 18 months of massive drugs and antibiotics left me a wreck. Weight was gained from the drugs and inability to do anything. My immune system was all but destroyed at that point. I caught every little bug the kids came close to. It would take me weeks if not months to get over the simplest cold. I also found out, I had become allergic to all kinds of chemicals. My head would break out from shampoos. I underarms would develop a rash from deodorants. Laundry soaps would leave me red and itchy all over with rashes. I couldn’t pump gas. If the neighbors applied fertilizer to their yards, I reacted. The city or state spraying the sides of the roads, I reacted if I drove by. If I came with 50 feet of someone wearing perfume, I shut down. My life was miserable at that point.
Changes had to be made. I avoid situations where chemicals were being used. I couldn’t attend any public gatherings because of perfume. Large parts of grocery stores were avoided because of the smells from cleaning supplies and soaps. We had to strip our house of anything with a smell. The girls couldn’t wear all that stuff teenage girls wear. Their friends couldn’t come over. I started seeing an environmental doctor. We started trying to eat organic food and rid ourselves of toxins. Sustainable living became a new mantra around the house. Our lives changed dramatically, but eventually I got a little better and could interact with selected groups of people. Luckily, I had found a job at that point where no one wore perfume and where I could work from home when I was sick – not always the case with a future jobs. I went on a near-vegetarian diet one month and felt a lot better.
But as with most things, it didn’t last. Job pressures, long work hours, and the normal American way of life crept in and took me back to my old ways of eating and living. Years and being inactive and now a new life of desk jobs lead to me gaining 80 pounds in a few years. I would try to exercise to lose the weight, but every time I did – I got sick when the weight started to come off. I eventually learned that the toxins I had been exposed to and were allergic to, were stored in fat cells. Working out started burning these fat cells and dumped the toxins back into my body causing me to react to them and become ill. Even dieting had the same effect. Fat cells released the toxins and I would become sick. I had stopped the weight gain with a little exercise and some dieting, but I was stuck at 325 pounds for a few years until something else happened.
As with a lot of overweight people, I had developed type 2 Diabetes. It probably started long before I noticed it. I now recognize the symptoms and could tell you of incidents for four or five years before I was actually diagnosed. Having been burned by doctors for years, I didn’t trust them and only visited a doctor when I just had too. Usually for a sinus infection or if I thought I had the flu. You couldn’t get me into a doctor for a checkup at that time. I had an incident with extremely high blood sugar and that was what caused me to finally get checked out. My doctor found the diabetes and we started on trying to bring it down. I stopped eating sweets and carbs. Tried the Atkins diet and the South Beach diet and dropped over 30 pounds in a few months. I still got sick during the weight loss, but at the time I was an independent consultant so I could manage my clients in a way my life didn’t stop. I felt better and have managed to keep my diabetes under reasonable control ever since. The problem my weight loss plateaued between 286 and 292 pounds and stayed that way for over 6 years. A drop of 10 pounds with a juice diet on week was gained back. A drop here and there with small amounts of exercise – gained back. I still would become ill when I worked out. I would be able to exercise for a few weeks. Drop a few pounds and then old fat cells would release toxins and I would get ill. Nothing worked until about last summer.
In the summer of 2013, my doctor gave me a new diabetes medicine. The old medicine would remove the excess glucose from my blood but wouldn’t do anything with it. The body would take the excess removed from the blood and store it in fat cells. My own body was working against me when I was trying to lose weight. The new medicine would eliminate the removed glucose. Finally, I was starting to lose weight in a way that didn’t make me sick. I lost around 20 pounds over the course of 7 months. I was on my way. Then Judy discovered Plexus.
The first week, Plexus didn’t really speed up my weight loss. What it did was correct years of other issues that either were a result of excess weight or caused excess weight. For decades, sleep was hard to come by. I would have trouble going to sleep and once asleep, I would wake up 4, 5, or 6 times a night. A few years ago, I went through a stretch of waking up every 45 minutes all night long and then taking 10-15 minutes to go back to sleep. I was exhausted all the time. Exhaustion led to inactivity, which lead to weight gain, which lead to higher blood sugar, which lead to exhaustion. Viscous circle. I tried going to a doctor, we had moved so I couldn’t go to the doctor I had started trusting. All they could see was my weight and if someone was as heavy as I was and felt exhausted all the time – it had to be sleep apnea. I had 0 signs of any other signs of sleep apnea. I tried to tell them this and that I wasn’t sleeping and not resting – I wasn’t sleeping at all. It wasn’t not breathing and moving from deep sleep into light sleep. It was staring at the alarm clock once an hour all night long. Several visits later, trust in doctors went back to zero. I lived with the condition for a year until Plexus came along.
One week of Plexus Slim and Accelerator+ combo and I would sleep all night long. I still have problems going to sleep and the dog wakes me up once or twice to go out, but in between – hours of uninterrupted sleep. Energy now flows in my body. I’ve achieved more in the first month of using Plexus than the years before. It has been about 6 weeks since I have stated Plexus by the time I write this and I have gotten more hours of deep sleep in the last 6 weeks than in the last decade. It’s incredible how I feel each day. If Plexus did nothing else for me, getting hours of deep sleep each night would be worth it. But, Plexus is helping in other ways as well.
After the first week, Plexus started speeding up my weight loss. Instead of less than a pound a week, I now lose 2 pounds or more each week. My new clothes started falling off after three weeks on Plexus. Now the circle has changed. I have energy each day. I go out and work on the yard which burns calories and builds muscle. More calories burned and more muscle built means I lose weight faster and my blood sugar stays lower. More energy and noticeable weight lost means my items crossed off my todo lists. More things accomplished, the better I feel about myself. The better I feel about myself, the better I sleep. And so on, and so on.
Yes, Plexus has changed my life over the last 6 weeks and I hope it keeps going. I’ve hit a plateau around 5 weeks, but worked through it. My weight didn’t melt off like some of the testimonies you read, but the better sleep kept me going. I’m now at the point I can add healthier options to my life to help my journey. Candida is getting under control so no more cravings for sweets. Better food satisfies me now and junk food doesn’t taste good. The weight I have lost so far allows me to bend over and move around better so I can start small exercises again. Many changes coming my way and I’m going to use this web site to let everyone know what they are and how they help or don’t help.
So now you know what has kept me partially busy over the last 6 weeks. I hope you take the time to read the pages on my new web site and follow my new blog as well as this one. I will try to update you everything Thursday with a Status Thursday post on both sites and I’ve gone back through my notes and created a few from the first 6 weeks of my journey and will continue doing so. Yes, I would like for you to become a Plexus customer through me or join my team as an independent Plexus Ambassador. But, what I really hope will happen from the new web site and blog is that your life will change from something I wrote here. Something you read of mine clicks and starts you on your own journey. Something takes you from an unhealthy you to a healthy you. Something that will help create that person inside of you that will meet me in a park one day for a 5 mile jog that is just another exercise and not a major accomplishment. A healthier you that can reach down and pick up your children or grandchildren and play with them without becoming winded or sore the next day. A healthier you that lives to see your grandchildren get married or your great grandchildren born. A healthier you that actually enjoys life and aspires others to become like you. So grab your Plexus, start reading, and let’s do this together.
For those who like what I write – don’t worry, my health and energy is returning to the point I think I can keep both sites and blogs up and running. I still won’t to redo the look of this site and what I learned building the other site will carry over. I am changing what I will be doing – expect more free stories. I’ve almost given up on finishing The Meltdown in book format, so I now plan on just releasing it on this site until it’s done and then try to bundle for a book. Same deal with the second episode of Jonathan’s Journey and Spider Wars.
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