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Garden Go Diabetes Coaching - 

Diabetes Simplified: Practical, Not Clinical

Hi All! Tis I, Wendy, your new Diabetes Coach : ) I am a Type 1 Diabetic who was diagnosed in my early 40s. That’s right, Type 1, it’s not just for kids anymore. Go me! 

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Since my diagnosis, I have completed thousands of hours of research on prediabetes, Type 1 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes, spent thousands of hours working with prediabetics and diabetics of all kinds, launched a Diabetes-friendly food business, and so much more as seen below:  

 

  • Author of The Diabetes Experiment (2022) 

  • Develop Recipes and Healthy Eating Plans for Corporations (3 years)

  • Founder of Garden Go - Diabetes-friendly food business (3 years) 

  • Diabetes Coach - 3 years

  • Healthy Food Coaching - 3 years

  • Healthy Cooking Instructor - 3 years

  • Heart, Cancer & Diabetes Meal Planning & Prepping - 2 years

  • Diabetes Cooking Channel - 1 year

  • Diabetes Motivational Presenter - 1 year

  • Inventor of Garden Go’s Blood Sugar Tea (2024) 

  • Started The Diabadass Club - (Coming late August 2024) 

  • ADA Diabetes Educator Certification (To Complete September 2024)

  • Blood Sugar Cookbook (Coming November 2024)

  • Blood Sugar Mixology Book (Coming November 2024) 

  • Created a Women & Diabetes Comic Strip Book (Coming 2025)  

 

I live and breathe diabetes to try to help as many people as possible going through this infuriating and terrifying life change with as much sanity and sense of humor as possible. There is a time to have a pity party, a time to fight, and a time to laugh. We need to be able to have all the feelings, and we all need someone like me to help us move forward when we get stuck. Because we all get stuck. I will fight for you and be your biggest advocate and ally each and every day, particularly on the days you just want to give up. 

 

As your Diabetes Coach, we will work together to customize your existing treatment plan to include how to just survive physically and mentally on a daily basis and beyond. We will make sure your quality of life is as high as possible and work within your mental capacity because this changes as frequently as our blood sugar after a piece of pizza. 

 

Non-Diabetic medical, health and wellness professionals can only take you so far. I will take you the rest of the way so that life becomes more enjoyable and to make sure you know It’s NOT you! 

 

Contact Wendy today to arrange for a free consultation​​​

What To Expect

Diabetes Coaching - With Blood Sugar Boss Diabetes Coaching, Wendy focuses on information you need to survive and thrive on a daily basis rather than going into detail about the science and the way your body works. That is great at the doctor, but not when you have reached your breaking point by doing everything you can think of to get your blood sugar under control and all your medical team tells you to do is get more exercise, eat better and take more drugs. There is only so much your medical team can do. This is where Wendy comes in. 

 

Wendy centers her diabetes coaching around getting you to the point where you can more easily and effectively manage your blood sugar in a way that fits your life. As a diabetic herself, she understands the disease; whereas, most medical professionals and wellness professionals understand the theory not the reality. She also works to create a team between you and her while also building a community with all her clients so that no one has to go through this monster of a disease alone. We are all stronger together! 

 

For those who are interested, we can do “coach and walk/swim/kayak/bean bags/lawn darts/etc!” I have a friend who lives in Salt Lake City, and she says that meetings with bosses and business partners are often held while hiking. I thought, “that is such a fantastic idea.” So, if you are interested, we can do something active, based on your level of comfort, during our one-on-one diabetes coaching sessions if you are an in-person client. Fun, right?! If this does not interest you, we can do a traditional sit down and chat coaching experience, no worries. We can mix it up, too. Your choice!  
 

Group Exercise Classes - Exercising as a diabetic is completely different than exercising as a non-diabetic. We will come together as a group to exercise and talk about the different ways exercise can impact our blood sugar. Each week will be a different exercise, and we will be outside as much as possible. You can ask questions about exercising while we work out. I will offer different exercise ideas based on various body limitations, and so much more. Think of it like group therapy with some light aerobic activity. : )  

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Exercise & Movement Planning - It can be incredibly difficult to know where to begin with exercise and diabetes. Wendy’s Exercise Planning takes the guesswork out of the process for you. Together, we will determine the best types of movement and exercise for you as we are all at different levels and we have different interests. You will also be provided endless ideas for moving that is not exercise to help keep your blood sugar in check. It will be as painless as possible. 

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Meal Planning - Meal planning includes customer meal ideas for each meal of the week. Each meal will be customized based on your health concerns and food preferences, including whole food plant based, vegetarian, pescatarian, plant forward, dairy free, nut free, gluten free, anything really. Wendy provides you with the meal ideas, you do the rest. You can also choose for Wendy to make the meals, too, with the Weekly Meals Plan. 

 

Weekly Meals - Weekly meals include meal planning and meal preparation. Wendy prepares the meals in a licensed commercial kitchen in Fruitland Park. You can choose 3 meals a week or 5 meals a week. Each meal will be customized based on your health concerns and food preferences, including whole food plant based, vegetarian, pescatarian, plant forward, dairy free, nut free, gluten free, anything really. 

How to Pay

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  • General Insurance - you might be able to use your insurance through a few different ways

  • Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance) covers outpatient diabetes self-management training for people who have been diagnosed with diabetes. Medicare may cover up to 10 hours of initial training, plus up to 2 hours of follow-up training each year after that. 

  • HSA & FSA Cards - Most HSA  & FSA programs should permit you to use HSA and FSA for Garden Go Diabetes Coaching. I can help you find out. 

  • ​Cash, Card, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, etc.

​Real Client Interaction

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Wendy: “This daily practice should help keep your body temperature in better control so you don’t feel like you’re having a hot flash all the time.”  
 

65yro+ Client: “Thank God. I had no idea this was happening because of my blood sugar. I thought I was going through the change again!” 
 

Both: Burst out laughing

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Benefits of a Diabetes Coach with Diabetes

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The first thing you learn about prediabetes and diabetes when you have it is that most medical professionals and health and wellness professionals mean well, however they have NO IDEA how to efficiently and effectively manage diabetes unless they, too, have it. For those people, this disease is all theory and science. As we all know, theory and real life are two entirely different beasts! 

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In the early days, I once had a nurse tell me, after I informed her their diabetes plan was not working, “well, I don’t know what to tell you. According to my medical education, this should be working. You must be doing something wrong.” Yeah, that is the type of nightmare experiences I have encountered. 

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Then, there is the misinformation spreading like wildfire from dietitians, nutritionists, and other wellness coaches with well-meaning intentions, but a general lack of real understanding regarding diabetes. Recently, I sat through a presentation by a “trained” dietitian telling a room full of diabetics that you can bank carbs like Weight Watchers points. Just so you know, that is not possible. Our bodies do not work like that. I do wish that worked though! Again, they mean well, but they just don’t know. 

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And let’s not forget food plans and all the other ways blood sugar is impacted that no one tells you about. Did you know that extreme temperatures outside can cause dangerous highs and lows? No one talks about the little things that impact us each day because they have no idea. 

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The biggest reason of all that I am compelled to provide diabetes coaching as someone with diabetes is because of the endless misinformed diabetes “professionals” out there in both the medical field and health and wellness and the way people with diabetes are mistreated, shamed, and blamed.

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In fact, as I was working on this webpage, I encountered yet another health “professional” that proved the need for diabetes coaches who actually have diabetes. I had made a post on social media about Diabetes Shaming. This health coach then went on to prove my point by diabetes shaming me and everyone with Type 2 diabetes and essentially saying it is a choice. Below was their comment:​

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This is such an arrogant and small-minded view of diabetes. There are so many factors to take into consideration that have nothing to do with one's choices in life. It is because of “professionals” like this that many people with diabetes don’t want to get help or they can’t be successful. These industries are blaming and shaming us for having diabetes and that is not right. These types of medical and health professionals infuriate me and drive me to help all of you!

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I understand what it is actually like to have diabetes and the struggles you are going through. I would never belittle your experience or feelings nor would I ever blame you or tell you it’s a choice.

 

So, if you are looking for an insanely knowledgeable diabetes coach with first-hand experience to guide you through the minefield that is diabetes management with individualized approaches and who will protect you like a Mama Bear, contact me today!​​

Plans & Pricing

Pay As You Go

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With this plan, you can schedule one-on-one coaching an hour at a time whenever you feel you need it in-person or via video. 

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$75/hr​

Monthly Diabetes Coaching

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1-hour session, once a week, 4 times a month

 

$66 - (12% off)

​The Newbie Experience

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Coaching for the newly diagnosed - prediabetes or diabetes

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5-hours week one

3-hours week two

2-hours week three

1-hour week four

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$726 - (12% off)

4-Month Diabetes Coaching

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1-hour session, once a week, 4 times a month for 4 months (16 - one-hour sessions total) 

 

$1020 - (15% off)

A La Carte

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1-hr Weekly Group Exercise - $10/class

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Custom Weekly Meal Planning - $75/hr

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Customer Weekly Meal Prepping - $75/hr 

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Custom Exercise Program - $75/hr 

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Personal Diabetes Training - $75/hr

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