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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
I saw someone alluding to this on a different post and realised I don’t know the answer. Is it a cause or an effect? Or both. And how do you minimise it?
I have been asked dozens of times since teenagerhood whether I am pregnant. Because I look it, always, exercise or no exercise. I’m a short, stocky (always within BMI guidelines) or recently much less stocky (now, having lost 7 lbs on LCHF unintentionally) UK size 8 so am what might be termed ‘petite’ if I didn’t look heftier than that.
I always assumed I looked like my mum (short Chinese) with the build of my dad (the stocky bit) in a genetic mix that could have had a more impressive outcome. But my mum had type 1. So maybe she was diabetic shaped too and not what I thought was Asian shaped.
The diabetic nurse took one look at me and told me I was diabetic shape. After asking if I was pregnant...
Is it just me who this happens to? (Men, I’m assuming you don’t get this?)
I have been asked dozens of times since teenagerhood whether I am pregnant. Because I look it, always, exercise or no exercise. I’m a short, stocky (always within BMI guidelines) or recently much less stocky (now, having lost 7 lbs on LCHF unintentionally) UK size 8 so am what might be termed ‘petite’ if I didn’t look heftier than that.
I always assumed I looked like my mum (short Chinese) with the build of my dad (the stocky bit) in a genetic mix that could have had a more impressive outcome. But my mum had type 1. So maybe she was diabetic shaped too and not what I thought was Asian shaped.
The diabetic nurse took one look at me and told me I was diabetic shape. After asking if I was pregnant...
Is it just me who this happens to? (Men, I’m assuming you don’t get this?)