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"In 2013 I had a lap band put around my stomach. For the next two years I threw up constantly and jumped up and down in my kitchen just to get food to go down, until the band broke and a surgeon cut it back out of me. Today my type 2 diabetes is reversed, I'm off insulin after 20 years, and I'm 82 pounds lighter, and none of it took an operating room." - Deborah (off insulin, down 82 lbs) My A1C had climbed to 11. The diabetic nutritionists put me on 15 grams of carbohydrates a day, and I'm probably made up of 90 percent bread, so there was no way that was going to happen. When it didn't, they warned me about losing limbs and going blind, and I got scared enough to try the band. They fill the band with liquid so your stomach can only take a little. I couldn't tolerate even that, so the doctor drained it all back out, and I still spent two years miserable. I'd stand in my kitchen jumping up and down to get a bite of dinner to move while my family laughed, because it did look comical, right up until the band broke and I needed another surgery to remove it. A few years later, an ad came across my Facebook that said eat your favorite foods. I remember thinking, well of course I want to eat my favorite foods. I had no idea what to expect. I just knew everything the hard way had already failed me. For the first four months I followed the meal plans to the letter and lost 30 pounds. Then I went back and watched the lessons again, especially the ones on diabetes, over and over, and the little light bulbs kept coming on. Year by year the weight went, and my insulin doses shrank with it. Around year four, it clicked all the way. I understood what was happening in my body, and I realized I was the one in control of it. I stopped panicking about what I'd eat on vacation, because I knew. I finally knew. Five years in, here's my chart: 💉 Off insulin, after 20 years of it 🩸 A1C down from a high of 11 ⚖️ 82 pounds gone, nearly 100 from my highest weight 👖 From a plus-size 20 to a size 12 🍽️ Half of every plate is vegetables, by my own choice How I got here is a way of eating built around real grocery store food, designed by a team of Stanford health experts to wake up the natural fat-burning hormones that stop working properly after 50. These days I cook the soups I love, salmon, asparagus for my husband, and real sourdough from a local baker who mills ancient grains. When I want something sweet, I make full-fat yogurt with blueberries and crunchy vanilla granola, and it's plenty. Meanwhile, somewhere out there is a woman being told her only options are 15 carbs a day, a band, or a needle for the rest of her life. I was that woman for most of my adult life. Me? Still eating bread. Still cooking my favorites. Still off insulin, and still shocked every time I say that out loud. Over 54,414 women have used the Homemade Method to bring their blood sugar down, work with their doctors to reduce their medications, and lose weight that surgery and dieting couldn't move. If you've been offered everything except a way of eating you could actually live with, take the free 3-minute quiz and see if this one could be it. No surgery, no carb limits, no giving up bread. https://start.homemademethod.com/quiz It's only available for a limited time. 💕 Deborah, Homemade Method Member