On this episode… I discuss my Top 5 Travel Tips for Solving Type 2 Diabetes. As part of my Week in Review, I share my week at Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort. I also provide an update on my progress using Mounjaro, and review Type 2 Diabetes news articles.
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STUDY: JARDIANCE SLOWS KIDNEY DISEASE
Scientists Just Quantified The Shocking Extent of Type 2 Diabetes Due to Poor Diet

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Top 5 Travel Tips for Solving Type 2 Diabetes
I wanna give you five tips for traveling if you’re dealing with solving your own type two diabetes. Now these are things that I do. you might have other ideas, other tips. If so, please let me know. But these are things that I’ve found that I think are really the most helpful things for me, and I do a lot of traveling.
this week we’re in a, I’m gonna call it a villa. It’s almost like an apartment, if you will, here at Disney’s Resort. there’s a living room, a full kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms, of course. And, I, so there’s plenty of space here, to live and it’s not like a hotel room. So this really, I’m talking about what I’m doing for this week, but you can really interpret these five traveling tips for almost any scenario.
So let’s get started. My number one tip, and I’m gonna start with number one. Maybe I should do this backwards, but here it goes. My number one tip is to pack your own food. Now, like I said earlier, this week, folks, here staying with me are eating chips, cookies, crackers. I’m looking right now at this, kitchen and there are at least I’m counting four different kinds of cookies.
All of the packages are open. Some of them have had to be replenished this week. I know that for a fact. There’s two different kinds of ice cream in the fridge. there’s pretzels, I think about three different kinds of chips. So anyway, it’s everywhere. So what do I do? I pack my own food. If I’m gonna want something crunchy, I’ll pack pork RINs.
If I’m gonna want something sweet, I’ll pack some of my protein bars or protein quest, protein snack type foods. I make sure that, we have, protein shakes, all the things that I need, even my, diet soda. And, maybe that’s not the healthiest, but, I do have some, time to time and so I pack it to make sure I have it.
I pack my little yellow packets. My, I think they’re Splenda packets, for the coffee. I pack my, flavor water, zero calorie enhancer. I call it spritz, but it, it has a brand name, but I think it’s a Walmart brand. But I pack that, to put my water. So I drink lots and lots of water. So pack your own food.
I found that to be, very helpful. the next thing is it goes with that and it’s cook in your own. Accommodations in your own villa. That’s what they’re called here. but do your own cooking when you can. we have, I think we’ve eaten out one time, and that was for our breakfast. Otherwise, every meal’s been cooked here.
Now the other folks did eat out a few different lunches. I usually have leftovers for that. But they did eat out. they went out and at the pool bar or something and had chicken strips or whatever. But basically we’re cooking here in the villa so I can make sure that in these meals there’s stuff that I will enjoy and stuff that’s helpful to me.
So we have eggs to make for breakfast, but they also have English muffins and bagels. we have, sandwich stuff, for lunch. I make sure that I get cheese that I like and meats that I like, and I get that low carb, 6 47 bread. it’s just a brand name. any of that low carb, high fiber, bread, would be good.
And then for dinners, I always make sure this good meat and veg. we made Mississippi, pot roast this week. We made a chicken salsa this week. So I always make sure there’s good, foods that are cooked right here that I can eat, and then the following day for lunch, if they’re out getting chicken strips and french fries, I’ll have some leftovers and really enjoy it.
Number three, get movement in your new location. So here we are in Hilton Head Island, and like I said, I really love the atmosphere of this place, South Carolina low country. I’m looking out here now and I see these marshes and they, drop down and rise up with each tide and different birds, gulls, herons, once in a while, a few, small hawks.
How you see outside and, yeah, it’s just beautiful. So it’s a joy to get out and get in my walks, explore new areas, and, with my smartphone, I always know I can get back to, the resort wherever I go. The fourth thing, sample local cuisine. So if you are going out to eat, make it special.
Don’t just eat the same old junk you can get at home, but if you are going out to eat, like around here, a shrimp is a very, good, thing that they have, fresh here. Also, a lot of fish is fresh here. So get something that’s, that the local place is known for and make it special. Make it an occasion.
no need to over-indulge in the same old thing you can get at home. Just get a reasonable amount of something that they do really well. make it special. And then the fifth thing, the last thing, the last tip I’m gonna give you here is to track everything. Now, if you’re anywhere near like me where you travel a lot, You can’t really let things go off the rail and still stay on your plan.
If it’s a, maybe a once a year or just a few days, then, yeah, it’s not really in the long run gonna make a tremendous difference what you do for just a few days, once a year. But if it is, more like, you know, our retirement lifestyle in that. we travel quite a bit. I’m gonna say we average one week out of every three away from home. So I can’t afford to be different, when I’m traveling than I am at home. So I track everything. I use my Fitness Pal, I use my Apple Watch. I make sure that I’m tracking my movement, all of that to keep myself on my plan.
Even though I’m traveling. So those are the five tips for traveling that I wanted to share with you today.
Mounjaro Update
Let’s take a look at the Mounjaro update for the week. this is a bit of status quo here, I think I am still at the 7.5 milligram dose. I’ve been using Mounjaro now for just over four months.
The first month was at 2.5 milligrams. The second month was at five milligrams, and now for over two months, I’ve been at the 7.5 milligram level. And I’m having no issues. I’m really having no negative side effects whatsoever. I gotta say that the combination between this Mounjaro and my Farxiga seems to be perfect.
the Mounjaro, in addition to all the things it does with helping with insulin, is also certainly controlling my appetite. I’d be hard pressed to overeat. I gotta tell you. And the Faraxiga what excess sugar there is. I can pass that out through the kidneys, with the Farxiga. So I think it’s working very well.
Now I do go in for blood work in three weeks. This’ll be my first blood work. It’s been about five months so far. So this’s be almost six months, since my last blood work. So I’m very interested in seeing, how this Mounjaro is, affecting my, blood work. So we’ll see that in just a few weeks.

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