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But you're clearly the exception

Submitted by Andrea Dickson on May 4, 2007 - 14:29.

Unless there is scienfitic evidence to the contrary, I'm going to keep believing that losing weight is largely beneficial.

If you lose weight through having high sugars (I've known diabetics who do this - they just stop taking insulin until they pee the calories away), then your diabetes will be awful.

Good explanation here: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=18157

Maybe it has more to do with being "in shape" than being thin? When I became diatebic, I was not overweight. The three times in which I have managed my diabetes so well that I didn't need medication, I was no thinner than I had been when I developed diabetes - BUT I was exercising. When I developed the disease, I couldn't have run a block without passing out.

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