Sarah_Jayne

Perhaps a bit of inspiration for others here struggling with weight and insulin issues.

Every single person in my family on both sides has one insulin issue or another and for the vast majority of them that means type 2 diabetes. So, I am pretty genetically marked and then on top of that I am overweight. I have polycystic ovaries which often comes with insulin resistance attached to it...which given my families history with insulin I wasn't too shocked about. I got that official diagnosis of being insulin resistant just about three years ago now and they did all the blood work at the time and told me I was pre-diabetic and if I didn't change something and 'fight back' it would just be a matter of time.

So, two years ago I finally got my act together and decided that if I was going to become diabetic I was going to go down screaming and make sure there was nearly nothing more I could have done. I totally changed my eating style so that I largely eat slow burning (ie low GI) foods and really watch my calorie and fat intake. Essentially I am living a lifestyle where I try to control the insulin I am resistant to rather than let it run rampant.

I have now lost just over 80lbs and I decided last week to bite the bullet and go in to get tested for diabetes again. I just came back from getting my test results where I was told that my levels were totally normal, I am not diabetic and they wouldn't class me as pre-diabetic any more.

I understand that just from genetics I may just be putting off something that will happen later in life but it sure feels good to see that the work I have put in has had a real effect on my body. I still have a lot of weight to drop and I hope that when sometime in the next year or so I get to my target I will have beaten my insulin into submission even more.

I have always been the freak in the family and right now it feels good to be the freak that doesn't have diabetes.