Lewis Howes

I hear you on saying it's not someone's fault who has diabetes today, but is it their responsibility to start to reverse it or make different choices and start making and saying, listen, I know I'm eating these highly addictive sugary things,

But isn't it also their responsibility to say, and I've got to learn how to start making healthier choices and be more consistent in the other way.

Otherwise, I'm going to be stuck like this forever.

When I was growing up, I had, what, eight Dr. Peppers a day in the summer.

And I thought I was like, I'm hydrating myself.

It was just eating candy all day, sugary things, cookies.

It was just whatever I could eat.

And if I wasn't running six hours a day, playing in the backyard, playing sports, I'd probably have diabetes.

I mean, I don't know.

But I think that helped me.

But it has been very hard to break the addiction of that habit for decades that I had.

Yeah.

It's so hard.

I love that you're saying this, but do you know Shawn Stevenson?

Yeah.

He goes against that.

And he'll say, I don't know if you go on a show ever, but he said, I was the guy laying with like back pain for months in my bed because all I was eating was fast food for my whole life.

And I was inflamed and I was overweight and I was beast and all these pains that I couldn't get out of.

And he said, it was extremely hard.

It was extremely challenging because there was no healthy food in his city where he's living in, in Ferguson, Missouri.