The idea of food was somewhat a reward system once I became financially

quasi-independent, where I could afford to eat in a restaurant like I wasn't

eating in Michelin Star restaurants but I could afford to go to a steak house or I

could get a hot dog in the street or I could go to a nice Chinese restaurant and we just ate and then the first clue that something was wrong with the diet was when my aunt got diabetes and we were

told that they were going to have to chop off her feet below her ankles, like a double amputation. And I guess I was just

around 30 or so when that happened?

Like, it's incomprehensible to me to envisioned what it would be like.

At the time for me to just think about someone close to me losing their feet was a very very hard thing to process.

And then ultimately she died of complications associated with diabetes after the amputation.

And then my uncle died of heart disease.

And then my other uncle died of heart disease. And then my mother got stomach cancer and died and it was like

within three months like I thought maybe she had an ulcer or had something else or you know whatever a kid who doesn't want his mother to die is

thinking but we were in definitive denial that she was dying and she like went

downhill and she died and then my father died of heart disease in the

same hospital as my mother and then my brother who was less active than me my

older brother ended up becoming overweight, obese, having

the first of three strokes and a heart attack. Hello friends and welcome back to the Light Watkins show with yours truly Light Watkins.

If this is your first time here, so I interview ordinary people just like you and me who've

taken extraordinary leaps of faith often in the direction of their path, their purpose, or their

mission.

And in doing so, they've been able to positively impact the lives

of many others who've either heard about their story

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