The Simple Habits That Are Reversing Chronic Illness: (The Powers Family Series Part 2) - 253
I’m back with Nicole Powers, a courageous mom who opened the door to her family’s real-life health transformation. Nicole didn’t come to us looking for quick tips or better habits. She came because she truly believed her life depended on it. She was scared, depleted, and watching her health decline while knowing her children were learning from everything she did.
A few weeks into learning how to stabilize blood sugar, fuel her body properly, and live with intention, Nicole is already experiencing powerful internal shifts. We talk about what her life looked like before, the small but meaningful changes she’s making now, and how those changes are reshaping her kids’ habits, confidence, and understanding of food.
If you ever felt so exhausted, sick, and overwhelmed by your health struggles, Nicole’s story proves that transformation can begin even at rock bottom and ripple through your entire family’s history.
Conclusion:
Healing doesn’t start with perfection. It starts with awareness and one small decision at a time. If Nicole’s story resonates with you, let it remind you that your body is always listening and ready to respond when you show up with consistency and care.
In This Episode:
00:00 Introduction
03:00 Nicole’s rock-bottom moment & wake-up call
06:22 Life before the shift: skipping meals & sugar reliance
08:20 The power of education & intentionality
12:28 Starting the day with protein & changing family dinners
19:06 The birthday cake moment: when food noise disappeared
21:24 Progress with fasting glucose levels
23:53 Modeling self-care, discipline, and confidence to her kids
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Transcript:
[00:00:00] Nicole Powers: Before starting this program, my fasting sugar was 180. I was sick and I had accepted death. I mean, I had a lot coming at me at once, and I didn't know how to stop it. I was literally watching myself go downhill fast
[00:00:16] Carrie Lupoli: cookies and cream cake that you never before would've ever been able to resist. And you didn't even want it or need it.
[00:00:23] Carrie Lupoli: I didn't want it. That is what happens when your body
[00:00:25] Nicole Powers: becomes balanced. I wasn't hungry. There wasn't a need for it. It's just like I saw it. My mind said, oh look, hey, it looks good. Try it. But I couldn't. I couldn't do it. And that's shocking.
[00:00:37] Carrie Lupoli: Today's episode, it's powerful, it's raw, it's honest, and a little bit heart stopping.
[00:00:42] Carrie Lupoli: I am back at our second episode with Nicole Powers. She's the mom who invited us behind the curtain of her family's health journey. And before we go any further, you need to know this Cole didn't come to us looking for better habits or a little nutritional advice. She came to [00:01:00] us because she genuinely believed that if she didn't make a change.
[00:01:03] Carrie Lupoli: She was gonna die. She was hopeless, she was scared, she was running on fumes, and she knew her kids were watching and learning. So in this second episode of our four-part series, following her transformation and what she's learning. Nicole today shares. It's just nothing short of extraordinary. The cracks that were breaking for her, the turning point that saved her, and the very real shifts she's making now that are changing the trajectory of her entire family's life.
[00:01:35] Carrie Lupoli: So if you've ever wondered whether true change is possible when you're at rock bottom, this conversation will answer that with a resounding yes. Let's get into it.
[00:01:49] Carrie Lupoli: Well, I am excited 'cause we are in our second episode of kind of our little reality TV show that we've got going on here, our reality podcast. With [00:02:00] Nicole Powers, who has been so gracious in allowing us to document the journey that she is on, along with her family, on really learning how to speak her body's love language, understand blood sugar, stabilization, and all the pieces of the puzzle that we teach.
[00:02:19] Carrie Lupoli: And she's not only. Documenting her journey, but she's bringing her three kids along with it. And on the last episode, we got to meet Nicole. We got to hear her story and why this was so important to her. And now on this episode, Nicole is a few weeks in, she's been digging into the daily learning, implementing, and starting to listen to our body.
[00:02:42] Carrie Lupoli: So today we are gonna get a bit of an update from my new friend who's one of my BFFs now. Because we, we text all the time and I love to hear all the things that's going on. Welcome back, Nicole.
[00:02:55] Nicole Powers: Thank you. Thank you very much. How are you? You have grasped
[00:02:59] Carrie Lupoli: onto the, [00:03:00] you've grasped onto the hearts of so many people now that they know your story and they're excited to hear more about what's been going on.
[00:03:06] Carrie Lupoli: You are a few weeks into your new lifestyle, kind of, I don't know, implementing like 1% at a time. You have a very big why, and I know we've heard it before, but just do like a 32nd recap about like what life. Has been like, what prompted you to say, I know I need a lifestyle shift?
[00:03:28] Nicole Powers: Um, I was sick and I had accepted death.
[00:03:32] Nicole Powers: I mean, I had a lot coming at me at once and I didn't know how to stop it. I was literally watching myself go downhill fast and I didn't know how to stop it. Um, I didn't have the knowledge on how to stop it. I didn't know about Food for Fuel. I didn't know. And, um, I feel like I had allowed. The spirit of gluttony, um, slothfulness.
[00:03:56] Nicole Powers: To, to roam through my family lineage just too long. And that's [00:04:00] not something I wanted to pass down to my children. So my goal was, you know, to be able to share the knowledge with them, even if they, 'cause they're young, if they don't use it. I want them to be able to have the knowledge to do it. If I would've known it, I mean, when the doctors told me, well, watch out, you know, you're gonna be diabetic.
[00:04:19] Nicole Powers: I would've PF C3 then, but I didn't have that. I didn't have that. So I want them to be educated, to know. So when they hit a road blocker, when something comes up, they'll say, well, you know what? Let me go back to this. My mom taught me this, so this is how I'm going to eat. This is how I'm gonna prepare my meals.
[00:04:37] Nicole Powers: They'll have something. And I just didn't have that. So that's, that's my line. Yeah. You're changing
[00:04:41] Carrie Lupoli: your family tree. I love it so much. And I love getting the updates from you on a regular basis. And so let's. Let's, let's dig into a little bit of what. The lifestyle that you are living right now and how different it is, and that's what I wanna focus on.
[00:04:57] Carrie Lupoli: The fact that you said something so, so powerful when you [00:05:00] kind of live in the spirit of gluttony. Yeah, and I think what a lot of people don't realize, I think we accept. Aging and disease as part of life. Yeah. I mean, diabetes is so normalized now that, I mean, when, when patients are or, or people are pre-diabetic, they're like a doctor's like, well, let's just wait and see, and then when you're diabetic.
[00:05:22] Carrie Lupoli: Then we can treat it and it becomes just this normal thing and it isn't normal. It is actually a lifestyle disease, and very often it's not about being your fault. It's a lack of knowledge, understanding and normalizing certain types of foods, which are not really food. Right. Allowing that. The, the cheap food that has coupons attached to it to be the normal part of our day.
[00:05:48] Carrie Lupoli: I actually was just in the grocery store the other day and I looked at the natural food section, which is a tiny little section of the grocery store, and I'm like, well, what's the rest of the grocery store? Right,
[00:05:57] Nicole Powers: right.
[00:05:58] Carrie Lupoli: Yeah. And so. [00:06:00] You know, I understand that you take on the responsibility of saying, okay, there was a spirit of gluttony.
[00:06:05] Carrie Lupoli: But I think what we don't also realize is we've normalized a certain type of lifestyle. Yeah. And we aren't given any real indication that we need to do something different. Until we get to this point of almost like, like you, we feel like you're on death's door, and so, right. Let's talk about what a typical lifestyle for you and your family would be as you before you met us, and then what are the changes that you've made already a few weeks in.
[00:06:37] Carrie Lupoli: Because this is not about doing everything all at once. It's about making small shifts over time. So let's talk about what life was like before.
[00:06:46] Nicole Powers: Oh, for me, I was a huge sweet eater because I have three kids there. I'm, I'm always on the go. I never took time to plan or prepare meals, so I was really the type, if I was hungry, I was a grab and [00:07:00] go girly, and it doesn't matter what it was.
[00:07:01] Nicole Powers: If it was a milkshake, I would grab it and eat it. It could be a snicker bar for breakfast. Hey, I'm, I'm grabbing that and eating it. I never said, well, I have to have my protein, or, you know, Hey, I didn't have any meat today, or I didn't drink water today. For the, for me, for the most part, I didn't actually sit and eat.
[00:07:21] Nicole Powers: Dinner until the end of my day, and that's after my kids came home. 'cause at that point, my body said, okay, everybody's home. They're safe. You are done. You can eat. And, and at that point I would eat a big meal and we would wind down and we would go to bed. And that was our life. Uh, my kids would eat at school.
[00:07:39] Nicole Powers: Now my son, you know, they. Handing out whole pizzas. 'cause he's, he's a football player and Chick-fil-A, so he had a lot of food options at, at, um, home. My daughter, you know, she would eat and my, my baby boy, he's a noodle and cereal type of kid. So we all kind of just did our own thing. And at home we had dinner [00:08:00] together, whatever that was.
[00:08:01] Nicole Powers: It could have been pizza, it could have been, um, burgers. It could have been something I cooked. You know, it just, but that's how it was.
[00:08:10] Carrie Lupoli: And I, and, and this is where over time, all of that will add up, right? All of those things that you're doing are normal part of, uh, most Americans' lives. And so there's two things that I feel like we've tried to do with you as you ventured in this lifestyle.
[00:08:26] Carrie Lupoli: One is education. And I think education is key. You're learning so much every single day. And the second is intentionality and recognizing that if you're not. Aware and intentional. You're just gonna go with what's comfortable, easy, and familiar, which is likely running through the drive, through grabbing the Snickers bar, whatever it is.
[00:08:50] Carrie Lupoli: So let's talk about the, those two things. Education, intentionality. Now that you know more. And you're only a few weeks in and you have a [00:09:00] hundred days of lessons, right? Yeah. So you're only a few weeks in, but what are you already learning that you're starting to implement into your lifestyle that is different than what you've been doing?
[00:09:12] Nicole Powers: I would intentionality. I have downloaded an app on my phone. It's called the Eat Wise Meal Reminder app. And what it does is you just set the time that you're supposed to eat every three hours. So now when I wake up in the morning, I'm making a protein shake. Um, I have a chia seed gel that I make that's my fat.
[00:09:31] Nicole Powers: I mix that in with almond milk. I drink it down first thing when I wake up. Um, and I. I click on that app, so it tells me, you know, Hey, you've ate at six 30, and it times three hours after six 30 for five meals. So I try to really, really keep hit my chart with that. Now, are you
[00:09:49] Carrie Lupoli: feeling hungry at that three hour mark?
[00:09:53] Nicole Powers: No, I'm not really hungry at all. My problem is because I've set myself to eat at the [00:10:00] end of the day, I'm not really hungry at all. I miss a lot of my marks. I'm like, oh, I've missed my three hour mark. I'm, you know, and then what happens is, so if I miss the three hour mark on that app, when I click eat four hours, it sets my time later and I'm like, I'm gonna be to bed at this time.
[00:10:16] Nicole Powers: And I will, I would've only ate three meals. I'm messing up. So I'm trying to. Stay on track with eating on time. That's why I've relied. So one thing I wanna remind
[00:10:25] Carrie Lupoli: you. One thing I wanna remind you of is it's never that you're messing up. And I remember your son said something about how he was gonna have a cheat meal and we're like, Nope, there's no cheating here.
[00:10:35] Carrie Lupoli: Cheating sounds like you're gonna do something wrong, but right. It's all these little pieces of language that we're gonna start to shift and you're not messing up. I mean, if you are eating three meals, when before you ate one big one at the end of the day. You are already making so much progress and I, I just wanna kind of clarify for people, when you've trained your body in a certain way to not expect food, the signals that your body sends [00:11:00] becomes a, like, yelling into a pillow.
[00:11:03] Carrie Lupoli: You know, if you put a pillow over your face and you start screaming and it's muffled, you can't really hear it. That's sort of what's happening with your body as you work to reset. You haven't really. Paid attention before to your hunger cues, or you've trained your body so much to know, well, we're not going to eat until the end of the day, so we're just gonna hold off on letting her know we're hungry because we know that she's not gonna do anything about it.
[00:11:25] Carrie Lupoli: If we do so by setting like an alarm for every three hours at the beginning, you're gonna start to retrain your body, but you're gonna start to see, you will get hungry at the three hour mark and it'll become intuitive.
[00:11:39] Nicole Powers: Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Right now I'm. Very rarely hungry. I'm like, oh, I eat again. Okay.
[00:11:45] Nicole Powers: So I'm, you know, but I know our coach, my coach said, you know, she only wants us to do shakes, uh, a protein shake or protein bar, no more than three times. You know, she wants us to get a nutrient. Yeah. I'd rather use
[00:11:58] Carrie Lupoli: two times a day. Two [00:12:00] times for a protein shake, because I want you eating whole. Foods that has lots of nutrients and density, especially for someone that needs nutrients like you, because of all the disease that's there, it's easy.
[00:12:14] Carrie Lupoli: It becomes like the Snickers bar. Right. I'll just have a bar. Yeah. I'll just have a protein bar. But that's processed food too. Right? Okay. I would say really, truly, we wanna go with two times a day, but this is what I think is so interesting. I love that you just said you start your day off with a protein shake.
[00:12:30] Carrie Lupoli: Just starting your day off with food is already a lifestyle shift. Then you talk about how your protein shake also has some chia seeds in it as well as. Almond milk. I mean, how many times have you ever bought almond milk in your life? Before? I just started.
[00:12:48] Nicole Powers: Since November 3rd.
[00:12:50] Carrie Lupoli: Exactly. And I love that. And then, I mean, let's talk about your son.
[00:12:55] Carrie Lupoli: Your son who's a football player when he wakes up. What was his breakfast before and what is his [00:13:00] breakfast now?
[00:13:01] Nicole Powers: He didn't eat breakfast before he would go to school. Oh, there you go. That's my point. Yeah. He didn't eat before, but now. Yeah, he, he wakes up, he eats, he slices his apple. And you know, I am like, okay, he'll make one for his siblings.
[00:13:16] Nicole Powers: And I'm like, not too tough, not too much on my trini shake, but I let him do it. I love that.
[00:13:23] Carrie Lupoli: He loves his shakes. And then he's even packing his own lunch. Am I right? Yeah. For, for lunch and he told me yes, he takes lunch. He told me that he packs himself usually like chicken and vegetables and some pistachios, and I'm like, this kid knows protein, fats, and carbs and this is the football player that would be eat the, eat entire pizza, right?
[00:13:45] Nicole Powers: Yeah, that's true. Yes, yes.
[00:13:48] Carrie Lupoli: And so just the shift in in your one son is really amazing. And now your other kids too, your two younger kids, they're having a protein shake in the morning as well. Am I right? Mm-hmm. Yes. [00:14:00] And you're starting to cook different dinners now? I am. I am. Yes. I'm So what, tell us about the dinners that you're cooking now.
[00:14:09] Nicole Powers: Um, well we, we're just now doing reintegration, so we are, uh, this week introducing. Dense carbs. So before I was doing mainly chicken, um, the fat that I'm used to is avocado and again, chia seeds. So I was doing a baked chicken rotisserie. I did a kale and spinach salad, and I would sprinkle some chia seeds on it.
[00:14:32] Nicole Powers: I have not been using, um, any dressing. Because we haven't went over that in class, so I do make a lemon, um, apple cider kind of spray mix that I might just to wet the lettuce up. Yeah. Yeah. Good. And, and veggies. My, even my youngest, he's not, he's not able to really tell that anything's shifted. Well, he's, he's being introduced to new vegetables.
[00:14:56] Nicole Powers: Like he said. He told you, he said, ah, Brussels sprouts. That's disgusting. [00:15:00] Yeah. He said, I didn't like the
[00:15:01] Carrie Lupoli: Brussels sprouts, but he said like, I do like what my mom is cooking. And Nicole, this is like when you, before right? It would've been like, let's just order a pizza or let's just run through the drive through.
[00:15:13] Carrie Lupoli: And now this is what we were saying. Now that you're educated, you're more intentional. And I mean, I want you to be thinking about all the different types of proteins, right? And so you have chicken, salmon will automatically be a protein and a fat You steak. Yeah. Is a protein and a fat. Uh, yeah. I mean there's, there's.
[00:15:29] Carrie Lupoli: So many, uh, fish is such like a really great way for you to be able to get protein in. And then there's lots of vegetarian proteins and things like that. But I just love that even if like your kids may, may or may not know, like your 7-year-old is not going to be taking in as much as maybe your 18-year-old is, but you are providing an education by modeling.
[00:15:54] Carrie Lupoli: A dinner that's gonna be balanced and your, I know that your daughter, [00:16:00] when we originally first talked, she really struggles with. Some body image issues and feeling confident about what she's eating. Yeah. And I can already tell in her little by little she's feeling more confident. And I always say confidence does not come because you've met a goal.
[00:16:15] Carrie Lupoli: Confidence comes when you know what you're doing is right. And while she it, you know, it's not like she's been sitting in class learning, but she's learning from you and modeling from you, and she's really excited about the momentum that she's on. I mean, she's feeling really good about herself.
[00:16:34] Nicole Powers: Yeah, she is.
[00:16:35] Nicole Powers: She is. She's doing great. I just wanted to add, 'cause I know we were talking about the integration of reintegration of foods and different proteins and things like that. Now I did switch it up a little bit last night. Uh, and my kids probably didn't know, 'cause we had been doing mainly chicken, but I did some beef.
[00:16:52] Nicole Powers: Um, I think they were fine with it, but for me, my tummy. No. So now I'm learning that, [00:17:00] yeah, I'm, I'm learning what, what affects different foods, have, you know, 'cause it didn't, it's like my tummy started, it, it, it was like, it started cramping and it was just, maybe it was too much for it to process. 'cause I like a good rib eye.
[00:17:14] Nicole Powers: Fat and you know, I like steak. So
[00:17:16] Carrie Lupoli: you've actually done a lot to your body in the last few weeks that it's not used to. Your body is even, even like, even though you are taking care of it, that is foreign to your body right now. Yeah. So there's a lot of adjustment that your body is going through and I just love that now you're really listening to it.
[00:17:36] Carrie Lupoli: And then you can start to make little tiny shifts because you're listening. I think about it like this. I over time you've, you know like when we get a callous on our hands. And you can't really feel like if you had a callous on your hand and something sharp was like kind of, you know, penetrated it, you might not feel it.
[00:17:55] Carrie Lupoli: Right. Right. I, I want you to think about your body kind of had this [00:18:00] callous on it. Right? And even though you. I mean, your fatigue, your cravings, your disease, all of those were the result of this callous, right? But your body wasn't talking to you as much because it, I mean, it was in, in that way, but you were normalizing, feeling awful.
[00:18:20] Carrie Lupoli: Right. Right. And now that you are, in some ways, I don't like to use this word too much detoxing, but in some ways when you're detoxing, it's like when you think about a drug addict who detoxes from drugs, that's a healthy thing to do, but the body is like, whoa, what's going on here? Right. Right. Yeah. So, so being aware of those kind of things are gonna be really important.
[00:18:43] Carrie Lupoli: You know that what you're doing for your body is right, and you are healing when you think about when you get a cut on your hand. You scab over before it fully heals. Right. This is like what's happening to you right now, and it's really amazing. As [00:19:00] long as you, I mean, you're already committed. The public is not gonna let you quit, right?
[00:19:05] Carrie Lupoli: So one of the things that you said to me, um, after our last episode was that I think it was your son had a birthday and there was a birthday cake. Tell us a story about that.
[00:19:19] Nicole Powers: He had, um, he wanted to, he's my young traveler. He wanted to, uh, visit Japan's for his birthday. So he's like, mom, can we go to Japan?
[00:19:27] Nicole Powers: And I'm like, well, I, you know, I'll take you to a Japanese restaurant that's as close as I can get you. So we took him out to a Japanese restaurant and he happened to tell his aunt that day, and she's a cook, but he said, I want a cookies and cream cake. And I was just gonna order. Order him something. As a matter of fact, I did.
[00:19:47] Nicole Powers: Um, and she, before she went to work that day, she made him this huge cake. I mean, it was huge. It looked delicious and it was just beautiful. And I saw it and my mind wanted it, [00:20:00] but my body didn't have the craving. So I did try to go get a piece, but it was like I couldn't even eat it. It's like my body just.
[00:20:07] Nicole Powers: Stopped it, but I, I think it's habits. 'cause I'm used to doing that. I'm used to the grab and go, grab the sweet, put it in my mouth before I know this time it was like my body just stopped it. So I was like, ah, I don't want that. I wasn't hungry. There wasn't a need for it. It's just like I saw it. My mind said, oh look, take it.
[00:20:27] Nicole Powers: Looks good. Try it. But I couldn't. I couldn't do it, and that shocked me. Amazing. Isn't that amazing one piece. Yeah, it was. I said, okay, something's happening here. And I could feel it. I could feel, even though I may not see it outwardly, I can feel that my body is doing some kind of shift or some kind of adjustments on the inside, and I'm just, I'm happy.
[00:20:48] Nicole Powers: That I'm caffeine free and that I've just taken a small break on my medicine. I wouldn't tell anybody else to do that, but I can feel it. I'm not, you know, I'm not being Yeah, I mean your, your
[00:20:58] Carrie Lupoli: doctor, your [00:21:00] doctor prescribed you ozempic and Yeah. You wanted to, um, pull off of it while you were doing this, and this is one of the things that I think is so important.
[00:21:08] Carrie Lupoli: A lot of people talk about being on GLP one as quieting the food noise, and yet you had a. Full on cookies and cream cake that you never before would've ever been able to resist, and you didn't even want it or need it. I didn't want that is what happens when your body becomes balanced. Let's also talk about a few numbers because you had your fasting, your fasting glucose numbers.
[00:21:31] Carrie Lupoli: Am I right? Yes. Yes. And so tell us what, give me the, the breakdown of what your numbers were and what they are right now.
[00:21:41] Nicole Powers: Initially starting before starting this program, my fasting sugar was 180 1 and that was so nerve wracking to me. 'cause I was like, how can I get this down? It's not, it's not moving.
[00:21:53] Nicole Powers: And then when I eat, it shoots up into the two hundreds and I can't never, I. Get it down. Um, after starting [00:22:00] the program and I started eating more consistently, making sure I got the protein in there, being, you know, intentional and active. I seen it go down to 1 41. It was resting at 1 41 and I said, okay.
[00:22:13] Nicole Powers: And just recently, I'm resting now at 1 26. So, and today is day 24. This is what I'm talking about. It's weird. We're at 21, uh, we're at day 24 now. So I wake up, I test my sugar and it's 1 26. And I said, okay, great. That's, that's good. And I initially, um, what made me really, really look into that is it was not too long ago.
[00:22:37] Nicole Powers: I was very, very sleepy and very sluggish. And I thought, Hey, is my sugar low? I didn't, you know, I'm drinking water, I'm doing the protein. Let me just check. And it wasn't. It wasn't, and I said, okay. I said, let's, let's keep, keep it going.
[00:22:50] Carrie Lupoli: Let's keep it up. Body is coming off this, I mean, we talk about sugar being a drug and with the amount of glucose that has been floating around your body [00:23:00] un almost uncontrollably, you are controlling it through lifestyle changes and you are only a few weeks in.
[00:23:07] Carrie Lupoli: I mean, Nicole, you have so much more to learn and to do, and you're already seeing this much progress. And your kids are starting to shift. Just imagine what life will look like for you in a year from now when you keep going like this.
[00:23:23] Nicole Powers: Yeah, I'm excited. How excited. How exciting is that? I'm excited about it.
[00:23:27] Nicole Powers: Yes, I'm excited and I'm, I'm, I'm really, really excited for them because they'll have the knowledge, you know, they'll have the knowledge to use it. Even when my son said, you know, at school when he was going to eat the lunch and he said, well, can I eat the, you know, the roast beef or can I have that? And I said, well, yeah, you could take the gravy off of it.
[00:23:44] Nicole Powers: You can eat the meat, you can eat the veggies. So even he's being proactive in, in what he puts in his mouth now, and I just think that's awesome.
[00:23:53] Carrie Lupoli: And, and it's really because they care about health because they're seeing, they're seeing firsthand what happens at the [00:24:00] older version of themselves, which is you.
[00:24:02] Carrie Lupoli: Right, right, right. You are the older version of themselves and they're seeing you at a young age. I mean, Nicole, how old are you? 44. That's like to be as sick as you are, to be very honest with you, at 44 years old. I mean, your son is close to 20, right? Like it's not that far away, and they don't want that for themselves.
[00:24:24] Carrie Lupoli: And so by telling them, like if you take off the gravy, that's gonna allow you to serve your body a little bit more. It's not about what you can't have, you're teaching them the discipline of declining. And the beauty and the love of self-care, loving yourself so much. Now we know that with the holidays coming and all that kind of stuff, you're gonna serve your soul.
[00:24:45] Carrie Lupoli: But to be able to teach the difference and why it's so important is a life skill that is going to not just save your life, but their lives and the generations, your grandkids. I mean, Nicole, all of this is so [00:25:00] incredibly powerful. I agree. Just you're seeing progress in a way that you wouldn't, you would, if, if the last three weeks have not happened, your numbers would continue to go up.
[00:25:12] Carrie Lupoli: You would be on medication and you would be dying still, and now you're on the track of. Progression and getting your life back.
[00:25:21] Nicole Powers: Yes. And let me just add this too. 'cause even with the ozempic, when I would take it, I wasn't noticing my numbers going down. I didn't see that on the Ozempic, not the way I'm seeing it now.
[00:25:34] Nicole Powers: And I was on the strongest milligram. I'm on two milligrams, so it's not like I would, and all they would do
[00:25:39] Carrie Lupoli: is keep upping it and upping like you can't keep upping it.
[00:25:43] Nicole Powers: Yeah, so I didn't see my, I, I didn't see it affect my numbers in that way, and I, I just thought, well, hey, I'm immune to this. It's not working.
[00:25:51] Nicole Powers: I think that's why I could take a pause on it and kind of see, because when I was on it, I didn't see it affect my numbers. But now doing the opposite, [00:26:00] making sure I eat every three hours, getting that protein in, I'm seeing a difference and the way I'm flushing is ridiculous. So, yeah.
[00:26:09] Carrie Lupoli: Yeah, your body, your body is loving you right now, even if it's like we do not know what's going on.
[00:26:16] Carrie Lupoli: So, Nicole, I'm so excited about this little update. We're gonna make sure we get, uh, the next update where, how you're doing, and we'll continue to revisit and connect with you because you're now connected to all of us. We all, we're all invested in you. And your progress in your life and your kids' lives.
[00:26:34] Carrie Lupoli: So thank you for being an open book and for sharing all of this, and I can't wait to see you next time. Thank you.
