During a doctor’s visit to Mumbai in 2024, Usha Rachel Thomas heard words that would change her life. “You go and talk, but you should be physiologically in the intensive care unit.” Senior brand strategist and USSA communications leader was used for high rates and high stress. But nothing prepared her for the reality that her body was moving quietly to a diabetic coma.
Her body did not give dramatic signs. Just growing fatigue, thirst, it could not rely, and the exhaustion that relaxed it after each meal. For two months, it rejected the symptoms as stress or heat. But reading sugar in blood told another story. “Glucometer quantities have been read more than 500, 538 to be accurate-more than five times more than it was to be,” in an interview with HT Health Shots in an interview with HT Health Shots.
It was a day when her story about “I’m just tired.” After all, this led to a medical turn, which turned into a deeply personal return to respect, self -consciousness and a conscious walk to self -care.
Signs of diabetes that were easily ignored
Usha says she felt unusually tired, especially after eating. A short breakfast would be accompanied by the preferred desire to sleep. The same thing happened after returning. “I thought it was just a tireless Mumbai heat or stress from the merger of our company,” she says.
Excessive thirst? She accused this of dehydration. Frequent urination? The natural result is more water. But what she missed was what many do – thin body signs. There was no one else who noticed red flags.
“Having lost my father a year ago, taking care of my mother’s loneliness and managing my grief, the empty nest syndrome after my youngest son moved to settle with his wife in Toronto and work at home during the merger of our company, created the perfect storm of stress and isolation,” she says.
When Usha finally saw his longtime doctor, Doctor B.S. Sheti, he didn’t take much time to connect the points. He offered a random blood sugar test. And when the result showed 538, she was told that no patient wants to hear: “You must be in the intensive care unit.”
Her body was on the verge of diabetic coma.
“These words blew up a carefully built story I spoke for decades. In this sterile examination, my illusion was crumbled. I wasn’t just tired. I wasn’t just craving. I was critically ill. I had type 2 diabetes. I punched.
Looking back, Usha can now recognize the early pre -emptive signs that her body had been sending for years before she got to the crisis. He says she neglected:
- Subtle disorders in the usual blood that were technically “within range” but trend in directions
- Increasing the recovery time from sudden stretching
- Sustainable fatigue, despite seemingly adequate rest
- Unexplained changes in the body that she explained age rather than metabolic dysfunction
- The adaptations she made unconsciously when her energy decreased. She took the elevators instead of the stairs. Took the car at a short distance she once walked.
Traveling to the cancellation of diabetes
During the week since she was told on the verge of diabetic coma, Usha sat opposite the endocrinologist Dr. Dirai Kapora. And without which sugar cover he told her: “You had to see an endocrinologist 11 years ago when weight gain began. The responsibility is yours now. Now you will have to work very hard. But there are good news – your other life substances are great. It means that you can cure.”
At that moment, she felt that she had a choice: “I could continue the spiral, otherwise I could start heal.” Usha decided to cure.
Type 2 diabetes for 60 days
In just two months, the disciplined lifestyle of Usha led the blood sugar to the non -diabetic range. Over the last ten months, she has supported them without aggressive medicines and deprivation. The question is how?
It was built on three main pillars: therapeutic support (originally), transformation of thinking and methodological lifestyle reconstruction, explains Usha, a former journalist and graduate of IIM.
“While I am almost without medication now, I started with a low dose pill for stabilizing my condition. This support has created a space for my lifestyle changes to take effect,” she says.
Changes in graphics:
- Fixed Food Window: Later Daily Supper or Northern Sleep.
- Dinner up to 7: 30-8: 00 PM without exception
- Sleep up to 10: 30-11: 00 PM to support hormonal regulation
- Morning procedures that preferred self -care before work requirements
Deliberate increase in movement
- 10-minute walks immediately after each meal
- Simple squeeze for salt while brushing your teeth or waiting for water to cook
- Daily yoga and dancing with Saurob Bobbi and Bobbra Teachers, restoring energy and joy
- At least 45-minute highlighted walks every day
Dietary changes
The main change was not that she ate, but how.
- First vegetables, then everything else. “This simple change of the sequence has dramatically affected my glucose reaction. I just turned the plate, not the food,” she says.
- Practicing careful nutrition, slowing down to notice the thick, texture and signals of satiety. I still eat chocolate and fruit. I just balance with exercise and accountability.
- Strategic indulgence: “It was so for chocolate, yes, mango, but with a clear awareness of time and quantity.”
- The sequence over the intensity: “I have never deprived myself, only rebuilt priorities.”
Positive signs of diabetes
Usha noticed that even with these major lifestyles for diabetes, the blood sugar level decreased from 538 to 180, then to 112, then 98. Not looking or not ill, and stronger and stronger. “
She says that when the statistics look great, they cannot capture the mental clarity that returned as the morning light after a long night, updated energy or even a deep shift in how it treats itself.
The mother of the two adult sons, she shares, “I disassembled 36 years of unconscious dedication and restored my relationship with my body. I realized that my almost catastrophic health crisis was not the result of days and even months of bad elections. This is the purchase of 36 years of unintentional dedication. I was productive, successful.
To be specific, she says that preventive assistance became a thought, and she sought medical care only when something is obviously not the case. It constantly rejected its 30-kilometer weight gain as inevitable as a result of stress and menopause. Late night’s dinners and conflicting dream models became normalized in the media and entertainment industry in which it worked. Her eating habits included processed foods, restaurant dishes, late evening without consciousness about control over the part. Physical movement almost disappeared from her life when she spent 14-16 hours daily, tied to the screens and providing all working terms. Between all this, she just stopped listening to her body signals.
Final reflections: “Don’t wait if the crisis hit you”
Usha claims that while type 2 diabetes has been normalized as an inevitable consequence of aging or genetics, its experience suggests that a private agency plays a much more role than people are believing.
“My goal is to share this deeply personal journey – to emphasize the opportunities for others. You may be where I was – functional, but unsuccessful, but death. You deserve to find out what the reversal is possible with the right direction and commitment. And your treatment deserves to start before the crisis makes your hand.”
(This story is based on a person’s type 2 diabetes. Consult your doctor before making any diet and lifestyle according to your personal needs.)
