"Steve Freides" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> You might be in the minority there.
>
> Quite, but I am not troubled by that.
>
> I know there are some people who are overweight because they're diabetic,
> and some people who are diabetic because they're overweight. If someone
> would like to Google this one and post some statistics, I'm all ears.

I won't bother. All you'll find is conflicting things. I think it is one
of those things we don't know for sure. What I do know is that I have that
very expensive book that Joslin puts out every so often. It's for Drs. In
it, it says there are over 300 variants to diabetes and yet we are lumped
into type 1 or type 2, for the most part.

I also know that when I was growing up, I was very underweight even though I
ate like a pig and had chronic low blood sugar. There is now the school of
thought that reactive hypoglycemia (which is likely what I had) is a
precursor to diabetes.

I had high BP at around age 25. I was then overweight but certainly not
obese. I did lose some weight and kept it off. BP didn't come down.
Eventually I put some weight back on. Continued to have the low blood
sugar. Then one day? I skipped a meal and didn't get sick. I thought that
was a good thing. Nope. Most likely I went the other way and into
diabetes.

And now? My weight is on the cusp of overweight to obese depending on the
day. My weight can vary by as much as 10 pounds. Partly due to fluid
retention (that seems to have no cause) and partly due to gastroparesis.

I have used the Chronometer. I am not overeating. If anything on most days
I am undereating but I have no choice in the matter. Because of the
gastroparesis, my stomach will only hold so much. If I try to eat more than
that, I will suffer the consequences. My CDE thinks that because I can not
eat enough calories, it is causing my body to go into starvation mode and
the weight hangs on.