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Janetta
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Hi Janetta, welcome to the forum 🙂 Very sorry to hear about your diagnosis, you must be feeling a bit shell-shocked 
How did you come to be diagnosed? Did the doctor put you on any medication?
Whilst weight is a significant risk factor for diagnosis, there is likely to be a strong genetic link to why you have diabetes. The good news is that, now you are diagnosed you can work towards getting your blood sugar levels under control, and you will begin to feel much better about things. Many people find that the modifications they make to their diet and activity levels leave them feeling fitter and healthier than they have for a long time - it's true! 🙂
I don't want to overwhelm you with information right now, but will just give you a couple of quick pointers to information that has helped many of our members: have a browse through our 'Useful Links' thread, in particular I would recommend reading Jennifer's Advice and Maggie Davey's letter, and getting a copy of Type 2 Diabetes: The First Year by Gretchen Becker. These should all help to give you a solid foundation to understanding what it is all about, but if there are any questions you have - whatever it may be! - then please do ask and we will try our best to help. 🙂
How did you come to be diagnosed? Did the doctor put you on any medication?Whilst weight is a significant risk factor for diagnosis, there is likely to be a strong genetic link to why you have diabetes. The good news is that, now you are diagnosed you can work towards getting your blood sugar levels under control, and you will begin to feel much better about things. Many people find that the modifications they make to their diet and activity levels leave them feeling fitter and healthier than they have for a long time - it's true! 🙂
I don't want to overwhelm you with information right now, but will just give you a couple of quick pointers to information that has helped many of our members: have a browse through our 'Useful Links' thread, in particular I would recommend reading Jennifer's Advice and Maggie Davey's letter, and getting a copy of Type 2 Diabetes: The First Year by Gretchen Becker. These should all help to give you a solid foundation to understanding what it is all about, but if there are any questions you have - whatever it may be! - then please do ask and we will try our best to help. 🙂
robert@fm
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Don't beat yourself up -- the idea that "type 2 diabetes is caused by obesity" is an urban myth fostered by the tabloids; there's plenty of evidence that in some cases at least, it's the other way around. (I had weight problems long before I had any control over what or how much I ate.)
Welcome to the forums! 🙂
Welcome to the forums! 🙂
Hi and welcome to the forum. Don't beat yourself up over the diagnosis. While the weight doesn't help, it is not the only reason people devlop diabetes. Does anyone else in your family have it?In my family my father and an uncle have it, there may be more, but they are pretty tight lipped about it.
Have you been put on any medication yet? Or have you been told try the diet and exercise route first?
Please feel free to come and ask any questions you like, someone will be aroud before long to help you
Have you been put on any medication yet? Or have you been told try the diet and exercise route first?
Please feel free to come and ask any questions you like, someone will be aroud before long to help you
Pumper_Sue
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hi everyone,just been told yesterday have type 2,have been very upset,feel its my own fault as im overweight,joined to get some support,thankyou
Hi Janetta,
welcome to the forum 🙂
People are dignosed with type 2 diabetes even when they are slim. So don't go down the route of it's all my fault.
What's happened is your pancreas has gone into overdrive producing more and more insulin so you eat more to counteract the hunger feeling then the weight goes on. Thus you now have the problem of diabetes.
So what you need to do is train your pancreas into thinking you are full and need no more food.
So you need to look at what you eat, cutting right back on starchy carbs is a must in helping to control your blood sugars, exercise is very important as well even if it's just a 20 min walk every day.
Welcome to the forum.
It is really massively unhelpful for you to go down the "It's all my fault" route. As others have said there are other factors involved than just excess weight.
Anyway, draw a line under your past and start afresh. It's not what you did yesterday that's going to help you it's what you do today, tomorrow and for the rest of your life.
I did that when I was diagnosed (like you I was overweight) and am now fitter, healthier and happier than I have been for decades (I josh not!!). My diabetic symptoms have also improved greatly and I am currently off all medication.
You may find the weight loss group section on the forum a help. Pop along there and get stuck in!! 🙂
Good luck,
Andy
It is really massively unhelpful for you to go down the "It's all my fault" route. As others have said there are other factors involved than just excess weight.
Anyway, draw a line under your past and start afresh. It's not what you did yesterday that's going to help you it's what you do today, tomorrow and for the rest of your life.
I did that when I was diagnosed (like you I was overweight) and am now fitter, healthier and happier than I have been for decades (I josh not!!). My diabetic symptoms have also improved greatly and I am currently off all medication.
You may find the weight loss group section on the forum a help. Pop along there and get stuck in!! 🙂
Good luck,
Andy
Copepod
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Welcome Janetta - can understand why you'd prefer not to have to join the forum 🙂
Anyway, now's the time to start turning around, reducing weight, increasing exercise / activity, change diet, have more fun etc. If you need any suggestions about weight - try "Weight Loss Group" section of this forum; for activity, there's "Exercise / Sport", which is wider than sport, although activities such as gardening tend to be discussed "Off The Subject". If you can't work out where a question fits, just post in "General Messageboard" (where you are now), as it can always be moved if more appropraite.
Anyway, now's the time to start turning around, reducing weight, increasing exercise / activity, change diet, have more fun etc. If you need any suggestions about weight - try "Weight Loss Group" section of this forum; for activity, there's "Exercise / Sport", which is wider than sport, although activities such as gardening tend to be discussed "Off The Subject". If you can't work out where a question fits, just post in "General Messageboard" (where you are now), as it can always be moved if more appropraite.
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