On her birthday four years ago, Jayne Jones thought she had a stomach bug. “It got so bad, my husband took me to the ER,” shares the Florida mom. Tests revealed advanced type 2 diabetes, her blood sugar seven times higher than normal. It was causing massive inflammation in Jayne’s organs, soaring blood pressure and dangerous deposits in her blood vessels. “They said I’d come within minutes of a stroke, even though I’d never been warned about my blood sugar before.”
Once emergency meds kicked in, a doctor stopped by Jayne’s bedside. “Follow up with your primary care physician and eat lean meat and salad for the rest of your life,” she advised, signing Jayne’s discharge forms. Jayne felt a tingle of fear. She’d almost died and now she’d just…go home? “A nurse squeezed my toe and said, ‘It’ll be okay, kid,’” Jayne recalls. And she was right. Jayne was not only going to be okay. She was going to create her own ‘diabetes diet,’ normalize her blood sugar levels, reclaim her health, lose stubborn excess pounds she’d carried for years—and have a whole lot of fun doing it.