Reverse Diabetes Improve Good Health Skills Every Day

Our health behavior is predictably consistent and new health skills can be learned. Overweight/obesity diabetes remission at 50 years of age can recapture an additional 10 years of Good Health beyond age 70, prevent premature death and reduce costs for medical care at least $5,000 per year.

Start a Good Health Journal today:

Every day, do something good for your health and write it down. Start with 5 minutes a day and aim for 30. See what happens in a week, then a month.

If you don’t really like typing on the virtual keyboard of your mobile unit, you can dictate your text and take photos of records. Tap the microphone icon on the screen or in the keyboard display to activate Speech to Text.

Health Behavior is Consistent:

All our behavior is predictably consistent. What we do each day is the same every day. It’s more than just habits like brushing our teeth and combing our hair. More than how we drive to work or go shopping. We are consistent at work, in our social life, what we say to our friends, what we do for entertainment and even how we vote.

Predictably irrational is how psychologist Richard Thaler described behavioral economics.

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Dr. Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics. His work shows that assuming people are predictably irrational is the most rational approach to studying their economic behavior. We really do know more than that! Rational or irrational, our consistent health behavior is entirely understandable. Tell me. When was the last time you did something unusual? Why change anything? After all, we made it this far!

Being consistent is something we learn by experience. Subconscious brain activity stores all our previous experience. We come to expect what worked well before will work again and we remember how. Because everybody expects us to be consistent, we do it. Very complex situations don’t bother us because we remember just what to do. Our attitudes and actions are automatic. We don’t even think about it.

When something new appears, we also know what to do. We decide whether we approve of it, whether we need it, whether we can use it, what it will cost us and whether we’ll do something about it. Some times we’ll get right with it, some times we need some persuasion and some times we flatly reject it.

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We suppose we’re doing all this by deliberately thinking about it. In fact our subconscious neural networks are filtering this new information and our intentions for new action through memory of our previous experience. You can say what you intend but clearing it for new action requires more than you might expect. You get started by stating what you intend to do and when you’ll do it. Then go on with your activities of normal life and see what happens. If what you intended doesn’t happen, try something less demanding. If nothing works, go back to your source of information and find something more persuasive to get started. When you succeed, keep deliberately trying to accomplish more and more until you find your limit.

Now you’ve got something to work with. Keep trying to do more and more while you build the skill to do it consistently. Do it again, again and again. Eventually you won’t have to think about it. That’s success!

Good Health Plan Description:

Get Started:

√ Keep Good Health Journal to record daily action for good health to be reviewed week by week.
√ Manage with coaching to coordinate planning, measuring, reporting and analysis of good health skills.
√ Manage medications for control of hyperglycemia and hypertension.
√Access and process accurate, up-to-date information about overweight/obesity and diabetes.
√ Manage physical health for blood glucose, blood pressure, body weight, maximum abdominal girth, nutrition and physical activity.
√ Manage social/professional interactions for eating, drinking, exercise and entertainment.

We’re surrounded by information about what to do. It’s in the newspapers, on TV, it’s talked about amongst family and friends.
For example, your doctor tells you what to eat and drink.

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The challenge is where to start. How much is less? How much is more?

Here is where you discover how your stored memory of previous experience affects the results of what you intend to do. As you deliberately plan, train and test your skills in good health, keep a record. That way you’ll know what skills are making progress and which are blocked from progress.

The first task is deliberately recording everything. Start by setting up a Good Health Journal. Make it simple. Use something like Google Keep. On the first day of each new week, write down what you intend to do that week. Then, every day, enter anything you can count, measure or describe related to good health skills.

If you can’t think of anything, or you can’t report something at least 5 days every week, use the time to learn more about getting started. Take as many occasions on as many days as you can to read articles about advantages and benefits of preventing and reversing diabetes.

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Self-Managing:

If you are self-managing your Good Health Skills, at the end of every week, review what you intended to do and what got done. For example, here’s what you might have planned and recorded in May 20-26, 2018. The result? Something recorded every day. Success!
If results for the first week were pretty easy, do it again. This time, deliberately plan and explicitly write down something a little more difficult.
If the result was records on fewer than 5 of the 7 days, see if you can figure out what was the problem. Maybe you can fix something. Start with setting an alarm to remind you about recording something every day.

Trial-Run Coaching in Texas (No Charge):

If you live in Texas and wish to start Trial-run Coaching, you can e-mail me at jaherdmd@herdhealthcare.com or call to 713-669-0271. I will reply to each email or call.
If you don’t really like typing on the virtual keyboard of your mobile unit, you can dictate your text and take photos of records. Tap the microphone icon on the screen or in the keyboard display to activate Speech to Text.
At the end of every week, take and share a screenshot of your Good Health Journal or e-mail a copy to me. I will reply with coaching tips.

Telehealth in Texas for Diabetes Prevention and Remission:

MONTH 1:Register in Texas and begin Good Health Coaching: (3rd party Services $110)
If you live in Texas and decide to register for telehealth coaching, please call/text message me at 713-669-0271 or send an email to jakaherd@gmail.com.

I will send you a packet of documents by US Postal Service. These documents are Requests for Information that is important for effective coaching. Please fill them out and mail them back to me at PO Box 20669, Houston, TX 77025.

You also need a food diary account with MyFitnessPal and tests for fasting blood glucose and HbA1c from Request-A- Test.

MyFitnessPal Premium Account Annual Fee ($50)
Request-A-Test diabetes screen ($60)
Good Health Coaching 1 month (no charge )

Total $110

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We will establish telehealth technology with you for data collection, file transfer and audio/visual communication between Win PC, Android and iOS mobile devices.

The platform includes hardware and software applications linked within Google and Office 365 ecosystems using secure end-to-end encryption over the internet including WiFi connections. It is completely and strongly HIPAA compliant for audio/visual communication as well as file transfer and data storage.

MONTH 2: Good Health Coaching: (3rd party Equipment $80 and Refundable Deposit $50 which will be returned when performance criteria are met)

Equipment: $80
Weight Watchers by Conair Body Analysis Glass Bathroom Scale ($30)
Omron BP 710n 3 Series Blood Pressure Monitor ($30)
Omron Pedometer HJ 321 (Aerobic Steps and 7-day storage) ($20)
Total $80

Refundable Deposit: $50

If you live in Texas and decide to continue coaching beyond the 1st month, you may deposit $50 in an account with DP&R. This money will be refunded at the end of 4 weeks contingent upon:

One Photo Record of BIA/Body Wt Scale, Digital BP Device and Omron Pedometer,
Daily Notes and Records of Measurements in the Good Health Report 5 d/wk and a
Virtual Coaching Session at least 1 d/wk.

MONTH 3:Managing Blood Glucose: (Refundable Deposit $100 which will be returned when performance criteria are met)

If you live in Texas and decide to continue coaching beyond the first 2 months, you may deposit $100 in an account with DP&R. This money will be refunded at the end of 4 weeks contingent upon:

One Photo Record of BIA/Body Wt Scale, Digital BP Device and Omron Pedometer,
Daily Notes and Records of Measurements in the Good Health Report 5 d/wk,
Full Food Records in MyFitnessPal 3 d/wk and a
Virtual Coaching Session at least 1 d/wk.

Objective: Before meals BG 80 to 120 mg/dL and 2hr after meals BG < 180 mg/dL

MONTHS 4 – 10: Managing Diabetes Remission: (Refundable Deposit $100 each month which will be returned when performance criteria are met)

If you live in Texas and decide to continue coaching beyond the first 3 months, you may deposit $100 in an account with DP&R at the beginning of every month. This money will be refunded at the end of 4 weeks contingent upon: