Krystyna23040
Expert
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- Type of diabetes
- Treatment type
- Diet only
When I was diagnosed I had lost so much weight, was very thin and haggard and had ketones so the initial diagnosis was that I had type 1 and that it wasn't my fault. I took that to mean that if it was type 2 it was my fault. How happy I was that it wasn't my fault. Then I was so happy that I was re-diagnosed as type 2 and I discovered low carb and keto and that I could put the diabetes into remission.If you speak to one endo they say you're diabetic because you're fat. Another says you're fat because you're diabetic. They all say we don't know what causes you to be diabetic. Yet the world castigates us for being lazy. A lot of type 1s have a really weird almost elitest view because their pancreases are more broken than type 2s. At diagnoses I Powerlifted seriously and was putting up elite numbers and still got battered by diabetes. My neighbour who I went to school with who is very seriously overweight and drives the 200m to the local Spar every time he needs milk doesn't have it... Yes, it rankles me lol
Now I am very proud to be a Type 2 who has (with the help of this website) gone into remission, come of insulin and reversed eye and foot problems. I do believe that it wasnt 'my fault' that I had a body that could not cope with the level of sugar and carbs that is normal in our society. I also have a friend who is 6 stone overweight and has superb blood sugar control - so she obviously will never get diabetes as she has been overweight for years and has never had problems.