One Mom's Triumph Over Diabetes & Resilience After Divorce w/Tracy Herbert

J. Rosemarie Francis: 20:57 Yeah, wow, thank you. That's a very inspirational story, because so many times we get bogged down in the situations that happen and we cry always me and you know, we, we, we misdirect that energy instead of putting it into making ourselves better, making our situation better. So thank you for sharing all of that. I appreciate it. Alright, so tell us what you do for your clients and how we can get in touch with you. Tracy Herbert: 21:30 Okay, first and foremost, my website, traceyherbertcom, has free resources. If you need anything like help on anything, it's going to be in that website, on that front page, and if you want to watch a short three and a half minute clip of my bicycle ride across the country, it's at the very bottom of my home page. But then I help clients go from feeling hopeless to I have hope. I have help clients that help with their health. I help with them with their trainings, different things but most importantly, I help people realize it's not too late. As long as we have breath, we have all the time in the world. So I work with my clients very small increments, just like the lady I met in Sacramento at the bus stop Do this one thing, do you like it? You know I'm more of their guide. I'm not even consider myself as a coach. I'm their guide. What do you want to do? What brings you joy? Because if it brings you joy, you're going to do it over and over. But if I tell somebody, okay, I only want you to eat apples and I only want you to eat eggs, and you don't like eggs or you don't like apple or you don't like salad, okay, then it's not going to work for you. The same thing with exercise. If I say, go ride your bicycle. A lot of people don't like riding their bicycles, especially across the United States, but it doesn't matter, find activities you enjoy. I'm working with a lady right now who she just is older and all she wanted to do was garden. That's all. She missed being able to get in the floor and garden. So we just started off by just having her get on her dining room chairs without arms. So pay attention to this a little bit and cross her arms like this and then just start getting up and down from the chair without even using your hands that little thing. And then we started working on ways she could start having more flexibility. Just from very simple poses. She started changing her diet so her joints didn't hurt so bad and now she's gardening in the ground. She's so thankful. But just things like that is so important and sometimes it takes an outside person. You can't figure things out always on your own, but when you find somebody that's got the right mindset and holds you accountable Because accountability is so important, yeah. J. Rosemarie Francis: 23:47 Yeah, thank you. So we'll put the link to your website on the show notes when we publish this interview, but you also have a podcast. Tell us about the podcast. Tracy Herbert: 24:01 Actually, two of them Longivity codes talks about aging and getting healthier as you age Some of my strategies and the other one is your diabetes breakthrough, which talks about awesome. Very little about type one diabetes. Mostly it's for people with pre diabetes and type two diabetes, because that's epidemic and it's continuing to rise exponentially. Then now the WHO is calling it a pandemic because so many people are being diagnosed with diabetes, and so that's also what I do is talk about just different strategies, different things. I've learned Interviews with both podcasts have interviews with physicians, medical team, researchers and so forth Right. But it's amazing when I work with, when I work with a client who has diabetes or pre diabetes, and the doctor's like you have, you're on your last. You know, if you don't get it this blood sugar under control, you're going to go on medication and they'll start working with me and they say three months later they're like I don't need your medication. The doctors are like keep doing what you're doing. So simple things out there that people don't think they can do. It's very, very simple. J. Rosemarie Francis: 25:09 Yes, thank you. I appreciate you, tracy, for coming and talking to us today, and this is an amazing interview. We have some technical difficulties, but it didn't stop us, did it? Tracy Herbert: 25:22 Yeah, sure it's been wonderful, and I just want people to remember don't ever lose hope. Whatever you're struggling with, there's a solution out there. Find what works best for you, because we're all different. J. Rosemarie Francis: 25:34 Yes, all right. So before I let you go, I'm going to ask you to give a solo mom a couple of tips, one or two, of how they can navigate becoming and staying healthy, while juggling solar parenting the most important for me. Tracy Herbert: 25:52 When I was a solo mom, the most important thing for me was my children. But, like I mentioned, without me taking control of my health, they wouldn't be where they are today because I got healthier. But what you have to do is you have to take things very slowly, but also start replacing just one item. So, for example, maybe tomorrow morning drink a glass of water. If you can do filtered water, that's even better, because the tap water a lot of places are very unhealthy. But just replace your first cup of coffee with a big glass of water. Or, before you eat a meal, drink a big glass of water, because it's proven you're going to eat fewer calories. So it doesn't have to be like all or nothing. And then, like I said, get off the chairs and move more. Maybe involve your kids, go to the park, play games, whatever you can do. A lot of people can't run, ok. Then go play freeze tag I mean everybody can play freeze tag. Or go for a walk, get out in nature. There's so many opportunities If you have money or you don't have money that you can do that you can build great memories. Pick up a game and play with your kids in the evenings and just laugh. I mean, my kids still talk about some of the dumb things we used to do, but it was just so much fun, because having fun is good for your health. A lap a day keeps a doctor away. It is so important.