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Type 2 How to Gain weight type 2

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Shanewhite12308

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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I’ve been a type 2 diabetic for a year now. A few months before I was diagnosed I weighed 185 pounds when I found out I was diabetic I spent 5 days in the icu and I was down to 160. Now a year later I’m 143 I feel like I’m slowly wasting away. My question is how can I start to put on weight and what’s causing me to slowly loss or if anybody else has experienced the same. Thanks
 
Shanewhite12308 said:
I’ve been a type 2 diabetic for a year now. A few months before I was diagnosed I weighed 185 pounds when I found out I was diabetic I spent 5 days in the icu and I was down to 160. Now a year later I’m 143 I feel like I’m slowly wasting away. My question is how can I start to put on weight and what’s causing me to slowly loss or if anybody else has experienced the same. Thanks
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Hi @Shanewhite12308 ,

I have to ask you a bunch of questions before I can properly answer you. I'll explain why in a minute. Have you changed your diet at all since diagnosis? Maybe gone low carb, to control your T2? Is there any obvious reason, any at all, that you might have been losing weight since diagnosis?

The thing is... When there is unexplained weight loss, that's usually a red flag for (a variant of) T1. A lot of adults are misdiagnosed as T2 first because people assume adult onset isn't a thing, while it is. And it's not commonly tested for, even when you're hospitalised.

That said, if you did start a low carb journey, weight loss is a likely side effect of that. If you are low carbing the most common solution'd be eating more often, say 3 meals a day and 3 snacks. Still low carb mind you, but take in more fats and protein than you might when low carbing with or without intermittent fasting. If everything I'm talking about is a complete mystery to you though, get yourself to the doc and request a C-peptide and a GAD test, to check whether you truly are a T2. Treatment varies wildly between types, and you really need to know what's going on.

Keep us posted eh.
Jo
 
Hi. Yes, unexplained weight loss can be a sign of being late onset T1 (LADA) and not T2. There are two tests for that i.e. GAD and C-Peptide so do ask for those if the weight loss continues together with high BS. I assume you have a meter and check fairly often to avoid going too high and risking DKA. To gain weight have enough proteins and fats. Don't be tempted to increase the carbs without checking your BS isn't too high.
 
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