Hi Everyone,

I'm diagnosed with Diabetes T2. I started having problems with insulin resistance when I was a kid and was actually hypo a lot. The problem has kind of snow-balled over the years. I was officially diagnosed in 06. I'm completely desperate to lose weight and it's really difficult because when I cut calories, I get hypo very easily. I pretty much have to eat 20-30 g. of carbs per hour just to keep going but if I go over 40g. then I go hyper. It's a very difficult balance. I think about my weight and about food every hour of the day. Not a moment goes by that I don't think about how to avoid gaining weight. I sometimes feel like weight-control and blood sugars and counting calories and carbs has taken over my life. It all seems so endless. I'm hoping to get some support and friendships here as I'm the only "fat chick" in my social group. Thanks for reading.

-Miette

try eating 1500 cal. come over to the diebetic site for more help, glen

Thanks.. would love to come over to the diabetes site...um.. where is it? How do I get there?

Thanks again,
-Miette

Actually . . . you are on the Diabetes Forum . . . I think what Glen means is to invite you to our regular monthly chat thread, called Dieting with Diabetes . . . here is a link to the April thread . . . http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=108685 . . .
Hope we'll be seeing you there . . .

You might also want to take a look at our "Getting to Know You" sticky where the regulars have introduced themselves and we hope you will tell us some more about yourself, too. Here is a link to that thread . . . http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101999 . . .

Before we can offer you any constructive advice, we really need to know a little more about you . . . your dietary patterns and exercise routines and the meds you are taking.

Hope to see you as one of our "regulars", Chickie . . . it can really help to be able to chat with others who understand the challenges you are facing . . . hope you have a great moving and shaking kind of day . . . see you soon . . .

Thanks so much for the links and information. I'll be seeing you there!

-Miette