Last month when I was diagnosed, the numbers on my usual morning weigh-in on the bathroom scale were mainly in the 280s. Of course when fully dressed at the doctor’s office or at the diabetes education place in Fayetteville the numbers would be a bit higher but the basis of comparison remains consistent for each venue, which is what matters. So when I weighed in at the all-day diabetes class last Tuesday and was informed that I’d lost ten pounds since the initial interview a month or so earlier I, of course, was pleased.
These days I’m taking two medications for the blood sugar problem, one of which has some appetite suppression and resulting weight loss as a side effect. In the last few days I’ve been eating noticeably less, my glucometer test readings are in the normal range, and I’m still losing weight at a most satisfactory rate. I even had to punch a new hole in my belt today.
I used to have one I’d gotten when I was wearing pants about ten inches bigger around the waist than I’m wearing these days. It had a number of new holes punched in it over the years, and by the time I replaced it I had cut several inches off its length.
Overweight people with Type 2 diabetes are generally encouraged to lose weight not only for the usual general health reasons, but also because losing weight makes the blood sugar easier to regulate.
And it doesn’t hurt that the eating habits that contribute to regulating blood sugar are also the eating habits that most contribute to weight loss if one is overweight.
