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@singist Hello singist, thank you for opening this discussion. Let me tag some members who can maybe answer your question.
Hello all, how are you this morning? What do you think about singist's question? Can weight loss cure diabetes? Have you seen any improvement in your diabetes yourself from keeping an eye on your weight? Feel free to share here!
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Basically yes to a degree for most diabetes 2 patients but there are age onset thin people who develop diabetes 2. If you are obese loss of weight can make a big difference, while you remain a diabetic you can control it completely by diet alone keeping weight down. I was injecting at one stage, got throat cancer, due to the treatment of cancer lost 6 stone in six weeks. At the end of the cancer treatment I returned to diet controlled, no tablets or injections. 5 years later and a return of two stone I am on tablets but use regular diet to avoid injecting, my pet hate in life!
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@singist We were just talking in another discussion about the keto diet, apparently it's very good for weight loss and diabetes in general though to me it sounds very difficult.
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@singist Hi singist
You can control the disease by diet if you start early enough. I didn’t control my condition very well in the first three or four years of my diagnosis. Then I was started of two types of insulin, one fast acting NovaRapid use before food and one slow acting Humulin I, the NovaRapid was for use when I had food or drink during the day and the Humilin I was for use overnight, a ‘background’, slow acting insulin.
Once started on insulin I thought that this was it, all downhill from now on? It was then that it was suggested that I was referred to a brilliant Specialist Diabetic Dietitian who showed me ‘how to eat’ to control my diabetes. My main downfall was carbohydrates, I loved my bread and potatoes. I was shown that eating the right foods would improve my overall condition. True enough a few ‘tweaks’ here and a few ‘tweaks’ there and my blood/glucose readings started to drop quite rapidly. I used to be around 10- 13 mmol then changing the diet I was running around 5-8 mmol, so quite a difference. I now take the NovaRapid prior to meals and as a ‘correcting dose’ if I have a piece of homemade fruit cake or sponge, or if I have chocolate, basically anything that would put my numbers up? I still take my Humulin I at night but during the my NovaRapid intake is take extraordinarily little if not none, providing I watch what I eat and drink.
Yes, singist you can control your disease, by what you consume. I don’t think that you can ‘totally’ reverse it but you sure can control it.
Hope all goes well for you?
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@singist I agree with @richard0804, I'm not sure it's fully possible to reverse diabetes or "eliminate" it, but you can reduce its effects and control it by taking care of yourself through a good diet, habits and sport.
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Is it possible to eradicate Type 2 diabeties by weight loss?