Weight Loss Can Result in Reversing Diabetes

since January I`ve lost almost 30 pounds at that point I was taking 2 metformin a day.As I started to see weight loss I was also seeing my sugar levels drop.I ended up on 1pill than 1/2 and last week my doctor said I don't need to take any and checking my numbers they are normal 4.8-5.2 but this doesn`t mean I`m not diabetic.Once a diabetic your always diabetic but it will help to avoid the complications that come with it.MFP has helped to lose the weight and make better choices.Keep up the good work and keep monitoring your sugar levels

Congratulations! I am hoping to reduce my risk of developing Diabetes by getting to a healthy weight.

Awesome!!!

Congratulations!

Job well done!

Great. I'm glad that you're doing better.

Of course the doctors and medical professionals are going to say that you can NOT reverse diabetes. They don't want you to. Seriously. Look at the number of people that have diabetes just in the USA. Think of how much money is spent on supplies and prescriptions. Think of how much money the doctors, companies that make the medication, meters etc and the pharmacies themselves will lose if everyone got smart and active to reverse this disease. Any smart idiot (Yes, I know that is an oxy moron, but it fits in this case) with half a brain can figure out what would happen if the truth is spread about it.

:blushing: Ohhh if it were only that easy :flowerforyou:

Congrats! That's a huge achievement by anyone's standards.

I think the OP, **** Cobb is a real person and sounds like he is an inspirational one at that. Found this about a successful Pick-up Litter volunteer organization he runs: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Adopt-YOUR-Block-Be-a-Litter-Gitter-Huntington-WV/150391718348761

Question: Regarding whether or not diet, exercise and weight loss cures Type II diabetes, are we really talking semantics here? It would seem that at some point, all our bodies would break down if we feed it the wrong foods, too many foods and not enough exercise. It just happens at different points with different people, and different systems break down first. In some, the ability to deal with glucose breaks down first. So, as far as lifestyle issues are concerned, isn't it a fact that none of us are ever cured of the ability to totally withstand long term abuses? So, therefore when someone says they are cured of Diabetes, we know what they mean. They are now operating in a zone of body weight, food intake and exercise where their personal machine operates in a healthy range. To me, this would be a cure. Thoughts?

I've been hearing people say this. But any time i ask a healthcare professional if diabetes is reversable, they look at me like i'm a moron and give me a very confident NO!

I have a lot of loved ones with diabetes. Unfortunately, even if this is true, i don't think it would motivate them to eat/exercise enough.

Just hoping this is for real and not another ridiculous troll, cause this one would be a little like a punch in the nuts

Yes it can I am a pure example of that. I was on diabetes medicine and cholesterol meds through exercise and better food choices I am on no longer on those meds anymore. I hope to stay that way if possible.

I'm happy for ya.

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Question: Regarding whether or not diet, exercise and weight loss cures Type II diabetes, are we really talking semantics here? It would seem that at some point, all our bodies would break down if we feed it the wrong foods, too many foods and not enough exercise. It just happens at different points with different people, and different systems break down first. In some, the ability to deal with glucose breaks down first. So, as far as lifestyle issues are concerned, isn't it a fact that none of us are ever cured of the ability to totally withstand long term abuses? So, therefore when someone says they are cured of Diabetes, we know what they mean. They are now operating in a zone of body weight, food intake and exercise where their personal machine operates in a healthy range. To me, this would be a cure. Thoughts?

No. It's not semantics.

There are plenty of people who've had a diet of mainly carbs, gotten morbidly obese, and never became diabetic or pre-diabetic. If you have Type II diabetes, you need to be watchful with your diet forever. Once you have the symptoms controlled, you can be more liberal in your choices, maybe even to the point of eating 'normally', but you still need to be aware that poor choices will set off the diabetes again. It's waiting to rear its ugly head.

If you were 'cured', you'd be able to eat all the carbs, gain weight, etc and have no worries. Not about diabetes, anyway.

Ask a cancer patient sometime whether the difference between 'in remission' and 'cured' is just semantics.

I've been hearing people say this. But any time i ask a healthcare professional if diabetes is reversable, they look at me like i'm a moron and give me a very confident NO!

I have a lot of loved ones with diabetes. Unfortunately, even if this is true, i don't think it would motivate them to eat/exercise enough.

Just hoping this is for real and not another ridiculous troll, cause this one would be a little like a punch in the nuts

It depends on which type of diabetes it is. Type 2 is reversible. Type 1, not always.

Not reversible, manageable.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/type-2-diabetes/DS00585

Complications can be reversible as the damage may not be permanent, or able to be reversed to a degree. However, the condition is not. I wish it weren't so, but it is.

I too am looking into managing (not curing) my T2 Diabetes and the article does have some interesting information.
All my life I have been medicine "unfriendly" as I believe most of the treatments out there are aligned towards the Pharmaceutical Industry and the ability to fill their coffers.

Any non-conventional thinking is always a bonus in my eyes.

Please read this.

If you have type II diabetes - it's worth the 20 minutes of your life you'll spend reading it.

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/36/4/1047.full

OP, Congratulations! That's just wonderful and an important reminder that dieting is about health, not looks. I'm happy for you.

I know it isn't the same thing, but I inherited a 17 year old cat with uncontrolled diabetes. I really thought he would die within a few weeks of getting him. He was on insulin for about 6 months, but because we changed his diet as well he needed less and less until he was off completely. He's not cured, but as long as we maintain his low carb diet there is no reason to think that he'll go back to his diabetic state. A good diet is essential for everyone.

If you were 'cured', you'd be able to eat all the carbs, gain weight, etc and have no worries.

In my opinion, this is a ridiculous line.

Using this line, anyone who is determined to be genetically susceptible to diabetes would be considered diabetic even without any observable symptoms. Which is not anyone's standard.

Similarly, anyone who has ever been obese would now be considered obese forever? Since they would predictably become obese again as soon as they "eat all the carbs, gain weight, etc".

Or if you drink way too much and get a fatty liver that would be incurable too (apparently)? Since even if you quit drinking, your liver repairs itself and everything goes back to normal - You'd still have "alcoholic fatty liver disease" because if you started drinking heavily again you'd be right back to where you started.

etc

etc

etc.

If semantics (yes, semantics) are going to be argued - the lines need to be drawn in a way that makes sense.