--- title: "Patient's Wake-Up Call Prompts Walking Routine, Weight Loss | Sutter Health" description: "Sury Maturi explains how losing weight with HMR benefited his and his family's health." url: "https://www.sutterhealth.org/patient-stories/surys-story-reversing-diabetes-1042868131" --- 1. [Home](https://www.sutterhealth.org/) / 2. [Patient Stories](https://www.sutterhealth.org/patient-stories) / 3. Patient's Wake-Up Call Prompts Walking Routine, Weight Loss # Patient's Wake-Up Call Prompts Walking Routine, Weight Loss * * * 2012 When Sury Maturi committed to PAMF's HMR Weight Management Program, he expected to lose pounds and improve his health. But one of the most surprising benefits was a strengthened relationship with his wife. As he embarked on the program in July 2010, Maturi began a regular daily exercise regime and walked his hilly Almaden Valley neighborhood for up to an hour and a half every day for 544 consecutive days. "My wife Jaya joined me on many of my walks," says Maturi, a busy Silicon Valley engineer who works for Texas Instruments and moved here from Hyderabad, India, more than 30 years ago. "It's given us some really nice quality time to talk and just be together. It's fantastic how much this has enhanced our relationship." Maturi was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 16 years ago but had managed to keep his diabetes more or less under control with medication. He'd tried losing weight during this time to improve his health and lessen his reliance on diabetes medications but had never been successful. "In June 2010 I got my wakeup call," says Maturi. "My endocrinologist told me I had no more medication options. I would need to start injecting insulin to control my diabetes. I really, really did not want to do this as a personal choice." As an alternative, Maturi's doctor suggested the HMR Program, and Maturi jumped at the chance to avoid insulin-dependency. "I knew this was my last chance, so I was really motivated to succeed and carefully followed all the recommendations of my care team – the prescribed diet, regular exercise and precise medication dosages," says Maturi. "I kept a detailed chart of my sugar levels, weight loss and medication dosages. Very soon I saw a big improvement in my sugar levels and started losing weight. It was very exciting and a great motivator to keep going." Although Maturi's main goal for embarking on the program was to control his diabetes, he also lost 37 pounds along the way. "I'm now only taking a third of the medication, and my diabetes is well-managed," says Maturi. "I feel great, am sleeping better and have much more energy. It's a liberating feeling. I cannot thank PAMF's HMR staff enough for their vast knowledge, constant encouragement and being ever ready to help me improve my life." Maturi's 18-year-old son, Abhiram, and 16-year-old daughter, Kinnera, also are delighted about their father's new-found health. "At a recent family dinner out, Kinnera suddenly had a very serious look on her face, and I knew she had something important to say," says Maturi. "She looked straight at me and said: ‘Thank you so much for doing the program and taking care of your health. It means you'll be around for us longer.' I really choked up when I heard that. I hadn't realized how much my ill health had affected my family. I need no further incentive to keep going and doing what's best for my health." ## Discover similar stories Choose a service topic below to read more stories like this one. 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lost about 37 pounds.\nI started with the medically supervised program.\nMy blood sugar numbers have come down dramatically.\nI went down for a diabetic to a pre-diabetic, to now,\nI'm almost at the edge of being non-diabetic.\nAnd I also enjoy life very well because I\ndon't have any hypoglycemic episodes that\nused to hamper and take away the quality of life for me.\nI don't live under the dark clouds of the debilitating\neffects of that disease.\nAs I started doing this exercise, my wife joined me.\nAnd she thought initially that she\nwas giving me moral support.\nAnd then soon she realized that in addition to that,\nshe is also benefiting from the physical activities.\nSPEAKER 1: Once he started and I noticed\nhow determined he was with the food and diet and exercise,\nit kind of inspired me to do it too.\nAnd I could not just sit on the couch\nwhen he started walking so I just put on my track pants\nand started walking with him.\nAnd then I noticed the quantities and what kind\nof food he's eating.\nAnd that changed my eating habits too.\nSURY MATURI: My kids now have a lot more awareness\nof what they eat, even though they're typical teenagers.\nThey think twice about ordering the kind of fried food\nthey order at the restaurants.\nAnd in fact, my daughter, one of the best things she ever\ntold me, this was one of the days when\nI was kind of feeling a little bit down and kind of wondering\nwhy me, why I have to do all those things.\nAnd I was reaching one of the gap foods,\nlike French fries or something.\nShe kind of slapped on my wrist.\nAnd she looks at me, she says, thanks, dad,\nfor doing everything, all your hard work.\nBecause of that, I can enjoy you for much longer\nbecause you'll be healthier.\nSo that moment I thought there's nothing\nthat's going to deter me-- neither rain nor snow\nnor anything else.\nAnd I'm going to stick to the program no matter what.\nThat was the biggest motivation for me\nand the inspiration for me as well.\nHMR is one of the best things that happened to me.\nAnd all the staff and the doctors and the nurses\nand everybody is really knowledgeable\nand they're very, very committed to the cause.\nThey are passionate about what they're doing.\nIf anything, I would say that HMR\nhas done me a big favor in giving me a second chance.\nI mean, that particular feeling of living\nagain is such a liberating and exhilarating feeling\nthat I wish I have enough words to describe it.\nNot only that, we not only feel good,\nwe also feel good that we are contributing to the economy\nbecause we completely refurbished our wardrobes."} ``` ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://www.sutterhealth.org/patient-stories/surys-story-reversing-diabetes-1042868131#article","name":"Patient's Wake-Up Call Prompts Walking Routine, Weight Loss","headline":"Patient's Wake-Up Call Prompts Walking Routine, Weight Loss","abstract":"Sury Maturi explains how losing weight with HMR benefited his and his 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But one of the most surprising benefits was a strengthened relationship with his wife. As he embarked on the program in July 2010, Maturi began a regular daily exercise regime and walked his hilly Almaden Valley neighborhood for up to an hour and a half every day for 544 consecutive days. \"My wife Jaya joined me on many of my walks,\" says Maturi, a busy Silicon Valley engineer who works for Texas Instruments and moved here from Hyderabad, India, more than 30 years ago. \"It's given us some really nice quality time to talk and just be together. It's fantastic how much this has enhanced our relationship.\" Maturi was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 16 years ago but had managed to keep his diabetes more or less under control with medication. He'd tried losing weight during this time to improve his health and lessen his reliance on diabetes medications but had never been successful. \"In June 2010 I got my wakeup call,\" says Maturi. \"My endocrinologist told me I had no more medication options. I would need to start injecting insulin to control my diabetes. I really, really did not want to do this as a personal choice.\" As an alternative, Maturi's doctor suggested the HMR Program, and Maturi jumped at the chance to avoid insulin-dependency. \"I knew this was my last chance, so I was really motivated to succeed and carefully followed all the recommendations of my care team – the prescribed diet, regular exercise and precise medication dosages,\" says Maturi. \"I kept a detailed chart of my sugar levels, weight loss and medication dosages. Very soon I saw a big improvement in my sugar levels and started losing weight. It was very exciting and a great motivator to keep going.\" Although Maturi's main goal for embarking on the program was to control his diabetes, he also lost 37 pounds along the way. \"I'm now only taking a third of the medication, and my diabetes is well-managed,\" says Maturi. \"I feel great, am sleeping better and have much more energy. It's a liberating feeling. I cannot thank PAMF's HMR staff enough for their vast knowledge, constant encouragement and being ever ready to help me improve my life.\" Maturi's 18-year-old son, Abhiram, and 16-year-old daughter, Kinnera, also are delighted about their father's new-found health. \"At a recent family dinner out, Kinnera suddenly had a very serious look on her face, and I knew she had something important to say,\" says Maturi. \"She looked straight at me and said: ‘Thank you so much for doing the program and taking care of your health. It means you'll be around for us longer.' I really choked up when I heard that. I hadn't realized how much my ill health had affected my family. I need no further incentive to keep going and doing what's best for my health.\""} ```