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Before I got out of the military , I

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knew I knew it was gonna be an issue

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because I had already started having

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health issues associated with my blood

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pressure was borderline . Um , I was

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having issues with sleeping sleep apnea .

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Started to creep in . I didn't realize

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I had sleep apnea until you know , my

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husband told me one day that he thought

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that I quit breathing , breathing in

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the middle of the night . Now I'm

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having to use a CPAP machine at night .

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The tissue in the back of my throat was

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thicker , I guess , from being

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overweight and it would just cut off

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your breathing . I was diagnosed with

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in a large heart and they put me on to

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high blood pressure medicines . I did

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have concerns about potential heart

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disease , especially as my blood

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pressure became really out of control .

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I had to go in once or twice a week um ,

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for fetal monitoring because of my high

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blood pressure . I ended up in the

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hospital several times because my blood

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pressure was so high that they were

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worried about the baby and I couldn't

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get my head aches under control . I

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just knew it's it was not gonna get any

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better and the weight was really an

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anchor . It was holding me down when I

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started working out . I still wasn't

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losing weight even though I was

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starting to get more fit . Um and

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that's when I got diagnosed with having

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a thyroid problem . I was probably in

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my 40s when my thyroids stopped working .

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It's kind of hard because I feel like I

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can look at food and gain weight , but

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it comes on so easy . It just doesn't

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want to come off with the thyroid

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medication . I just stayed it that way .

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I didn't , we'd go up with you , but I

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wouldn't lose anything . The health

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consequences that I have relating to my

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weight is diabetes . Type two diabetes

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came up and like , okay this is getting

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a little more serious now . The way I

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found out I had to get admitted to the

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er I went to a doctor's appointment ,

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get a check up and they had immediately

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sent me to the emergency room and at

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that point I found out of high diabetes

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and at that time my blood sugar was

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like over 600 last year , I just found

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out that I had diabetes , high blood

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pressure , high cholesterol . And it's

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like , whoa and it was a slap in the

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face . What concerns me the most is my

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dad had a stroke back in 2000 and seven .

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He was in his upper fifties and um you

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know working out on a regular basis but

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he was still overweight and he ended up

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having a massive stroke . That if it

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wasn't for my mom actually hear him

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fall in the bathroom , you know , he

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could have died . You know , at a

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younger age , you don't think much

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about that . But as you get older ,

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high cholesterol becomes a big issue

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and you start thinking of the , you

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know , what can happen with high

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cholesterol . And so that starts making

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you think , OK , well , what can I do

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to change this ? I'm afraid that

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without some kind of , you know , uh

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intervention of some sort , I may end

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up in that same boat . Yeah .