About Me

I’m Adam Lea. I’m not a doctor, a dietitian, or a coach. I’m a 58-year-old guy with a full-time tech job who got handed a type 2 diabetes diagnosis that I should have known was coming. I’ve spent the last three+ years turning my numbers around and writing down exactly how, with the real lab sheets to prove it.

What happened to me

In February 2023 I went to urgent care feeling like I was dying. My blood sugar was 343. A few days later the full labs came back: A1C 12.5%, with cholesterol, LDL, and triglycerides all way out of range. At my heaviest I was 356 pounds.

It hit hard for a specific reason: my father died from complications of diabetes at 57. My uncle lost toes, then his feet, then part of his leg. I was 54, and in my head that gave me about three years. I’m 58 now; I outlived him, and that fact is a big part of why I do this.

What I did about it

I cut carbohydrates hard, started walking (a single block at first — my joints hurt too much for more), and tracked every number obsessively. My doctor pushed insulin and Ozempic. I asked for a chance to prove what I could do with diet first. Over the next months my A1C fell from 12.5% to 7.5%, then to 5.8%, where it’s held, and I lost 131 pounds (356 → 225). I did it without Ozempic or any GLP-1 drug.

The honest part most people skip

I’m not going to tell you I’m “cured.” I don’t believe that’s a real thing for type 2 diabetes. I also did very reluctantly start metformin, and I still take it. So by the strict clinical definition I’m not “in remission” yet. I’m well-controlled on minimal medication. This site is the log of trying to earn my way to true remission: real numbers, including the meds, all the way to the goal of doing this without them. “Without Ozempic” is true. “Without medication” would be a lie, and I won’t tell it.

What this site is, and isn’t

It’s a public, honest record: my actual lab work on screen, what I ate, what I walked, what worked, and what didn’t. My data, not your orders. I’m not selling a cure, a supplement, or a miracle. I question a lot of conventional advice, but I’m not anti-doctor. I’m pro you being an informed, active participant in your own health, the way I finally became in mine.

If you’re newly diagnosed and scared, start here: [link: How I got my A1C from 12.5 to 5.8] and [link: The symptoms I ignored].

A real disclaimer

I’m not a medical professional, and nothing here is medical advice. This is my personal experience and my own lab data, shared for information only. Never start, stop, or change a medication based on something a stranger on the internet did, including me. Talk to your own doctor.