Diabetes Coaching: Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Diabetes Coaching System?

The Diabetes Coaching System is an 8 Step program that is designed to lead participants through a process of making lifestyle changes with the structure and motivation that will ensure success.

What inspired you to develop your coaching programs?

With diabetes and its complications spiraling out of control, experts around the world are finally recognizing that most diabetes programs are missing the coaching, support and practical tools that empower participants to experience long term success.

Here is what one prominant physician, Dr. Mark Hyman, the author of Ultra Metabolism has to say about current approaches to managing diabetes:

"The current conventional diabetes treatments provided are misguided, outdated and only mask over symptoms instead of stomping out the root underlying cause of your problem."

If you don't believe that most programs for diabetes management are not effective, check out the statistics. They say it all.

Did you know that:

• Over 20 million Americans have some form of diabetes (most of them Type 2 diabetes) and 60 million Americans are now considered pre-diabetic. (5 million people have diabetes and don't even know it!)

• Diabetes kills more Americans every year than AIDS & Breast Cancer combined.

• Diabetes is the #1 cause of new blindness in adults ages 20 to 74

• Diabetes doubles the risk of heart attack and stroke. It is also the leading cause of kidney failure, and responsible for more than 60% of all non-traumatic lower limb amputations.

With so many people suffering from this disease, I knew that there had to be a better way to conquer diabetes, and I wanted to be a part of the solution.

How Did You Develop Your Programs?

Following my certification as a Health Counselor, I began intensive research to uncover the most successful nutritional approaches to managing blood sugars. I began to learn techniques being used by the worlds most respected wellness coaches so that I could bring diabetes coaching benefits to my clients.

I applied the principles I had gathered over the course of 25 years as an attorney, change management expert, health coach and diabetes educator to write my book, "The Diabetes Coach Approach Workbook and to develop Great Life's coaching programs.

What is a Diabetes Coach?

It's hard to change habits and behaviors that you have grown accustomed to your entire life. A coach is a partner that is there to empower you so that you can learn HOW to transition to healthier ways of eating and living.

Why Does Great Life's Diabetes Coaching System Work?

REASON #1: Our coaching system is designed to show you "HOW" to transform your health.

Most conventional programs are based on an approach that tells you"WHAT" to do. (what "diet" to follow, what exercise program is helpful, what drugs to take). But, just knowing what to do isn't enough.

I invite you to take a different approach. I call it the "HOW" approach.

• Diabetes coaching benefits you by combining EDUCATION, COACHING and SUPPORT to teach you HOW to balance your body for health and well being and empowers you to take action.

• Armed with an ACTION PLAN and the support of your coach, you are going to learn HOW to conquer diabetes or any health issue that you want to change while experiencing a whole new level of health and well being.

REASON #2:Diabetes Coaching Benefits Participants by Addressing the Underlying Causes

The traditional medical model focuses on treating the symptoms or risk factors of diabetes.

Unfortunately, these approaches, including medication, insulin, and "diets", while helpful in the short term, for the majority of people do not get to the root causes of type 2 diabetes. There is no healing, just a masking of symptoms.

• Diabetes coaching benefits you by showing you new ways of doing things that are causing you to be "metabolically challenged", from how you eat, exercise, manage stress and approach every day living.

• Insullin Resistance is a key underlying factor in Type 2 Diabetes. Coaching benefits you by showing you how to turn insulin resistance around around. In the process you will change your body mass which will in turn help you to get into a fat burning rather than a fat storing mode.

• Most importantly diabetes coaching benefits you by showing you how to give your pancreas a much needed rest from the onslaught of refined foods that affect all aspects of your health.

REASON #3: Great Life Coaching Programs will see you through the times when life's daily challenges get in the way of your best intentions to eat well and exercise.

We understand how difficult it can be in today's fast paced world to fit self care into your daily routine.

• It's easy to stay on track when everything is going your way. That's Not Real Life!

• We know that you don't want to reverse diabetes for a month, a year or even a few years. You want to be healthy the rest of your life.

• We are going to show you how to stay on track and motivated when life's challenges get in the way.

• We want you to ENJOY life, and experience vibrant health today, tomorrow, and into the future.

Reason #4: Coaching with Great Life is a collaboration between someone whose been there and knows what you are going through.

"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results" Tony Robbins,well known motivational speaker,who has inspired millions of people to acheive their goals.

I know with certainty, from first hand experience and from coaching others that it is possible to beat diabetes and regain "vibrant" health.

My journey has evolved into personal mission to make sure that everyone has the information they need to conquer diabetes, the tools to put that information into action, and the diabetes coaching benefits they need to stay on track when life's challenges threaten to get in the way.

If you think health coaching seems like a great idea, but you have more questions about whether coaching is a good fit for you, we invite you to enroll in our Free Tele-Seminar ,where you can learn more about the Diabetes Coaching Benefits that you will experience as a participant in our Reversing Diabetes programs.