great point - sometimes its hard not to just dive into a bag of oreos when trying to put on weight!!

I know what you mean. I don't have high blood sugar, but I have the opposite problem - hypoglycemia. Reactive hypoglycemia, I'm guessing.

I still eat too much sugar, but I am a lot better than I used to be. Even though I indulge in fruit and some chocolate and treats every day, I still keep my carbs around 45% of my total calories, and simple sugars are only part of that. The hypoglycemia is, I think, damage from when I consumed insane amounts of sugar throughout childhood and into my mid-twenties. I had an unhealthy pattern going where I wouldn't eat for half the day, and then I would go on sugar binges at night. You know those surveys that ask if you ever ate a whole box of Oreos in one sitting? I've actually done that (nowadays, I have no idea how I managed that, but things change). This kind of thing is much less of a problem since I have changed to a high fat diet (based on the Paleo diet, it seems to suit me best).

I still have to eat more sugar than I would like to, though. Last spring, right before I found MFP, I tried to cut sugar out from my diet and I lost too much weight even though I was eating so much in fats. Now I try to be moderate about it, and eat enough fats, protein, and fiber so that it doesn't dump into my bloodstream at once. I would recommend for others to eat some amount of sugar, but here are some things to keep in mind - some I figured out for myself, and some I learned in my Nutrition classes:

-Eat whole fruit instead of juice. The fiber in the whole fruit will slow the absorption of the fructose
-Use berries in smoothies. Berries have the lowest sugar content of any fruit.
-Some vegetables have a lot of sugar. If you're juicing vegetables, go easy on the high-sugar veggies such as beets and carrots.
-Start your morning off with a good source of protein, and the same thing at night, especially if you like to eat sugary things at night.
-It's good to snack on natural fats throughout the day, and they will help regulate your blood sugar while adding much-needed calories: avocado, olive oil, coconut anything, flax, nuts/seeds, etc.

Are you sure it was Type 2 Diabetes? I have a professor who was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in her mid-30s. It's not so much a matter of juvenile or adult as it is the cause. A Type-1 diabetic has to have insulin because their pancreas stops making insulin, while a Type 2 diabetic still produces insulin but their cells need more to open the channels to take in glucose out of the blood.