Yes it is difficult for all of us. My point though is that for those people with undiagnosed IR even if they do the same things that you did, keeping active and keeping a check on what they eat, taking as firm a hold as they can....the weight still goes on. This is T2 , yet they won't get a diagnosis for very many years as insulin levels just aren't checked. T2 is only diagnosed when BG levels rise, but often starts way before then and does cause weight gain. It isn't just difficult for these people, it's impossible. That's how it was for me when my parents died 22 years ago. I did everything I knew but still put on weight. My GP thought I was cheating on the diets. I wasn't. I ate less and less until I got ill with infection after infection. Only low carbing can help with IR and if you don't know about it it's a really depressing place to be, trying diet after diet and still gaining weight. You did all the right things and they worked because you don't have IR/metabolic syndrome/T2. Just imagine what it would have been like if you had done all that hard work and still got fat. It wouldn't have been you to blame, it would have been your body not responding how it should.After my dear dad died this year, I didn't have my hourly walk, there and back to the care home most day's, I was down and out and did , well, not a lot, I put on some weight. Not overweight I know, but aged 60 now, I have to work at a it, even though I wanted to stuff my face at times. Decades of diabetes isn't easy and if I don't keep a check on what I am doing, making sure I keep active and watching what I eat and not letting depression take a firm hold, then weight can go on. We are all, I'm sure, trying to do our best with life and diabetes.
As for not letting depression take a firm hold, well there's another judgement on a whole other group of people.
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