You can either get off all meds are cut down greatly the number you are taking. I went from four (Feb 2006) to currently one, Metformin), It took me 3.5 years but I did it. I worked at getting my numbers undercontrol and didn't worry so much about my weight. In those 3.5 years I lost weight slowly, very slowly, but I can't tell you when I actually dropped all the weight. I do know that within the first six months, I lost 2 dress sized but put on 14 more pounds (the weight came from water because as you begin exercising and then increase the intensity, your muscles hold fluid). It took six months to lose by way of the scale those extra fourteen pounds but I continued losing dress sizes. Everyone thought I had dropped 50 to 75 pounds.


Two good books on the effects of exercise on diabetes are, The Healing Power of Exercise: Your Guide to Preventing and Treating Diabetes, Depression, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Arthritis, and More, Drs Goldberg and Elliot, and The Diabetic Athlete's Handbook, by Sheri Colburg.