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Lady, I'm 37 years old!! I'm not ridiculing a single thing. Diabetes runs in my family. Doesn't mean I'm going to change my eating habits too much though. I don't really like sweets all that much. I was fat at one time (doing a good job of getting fatter) and fat runs in my family. I didn't give a dern for what I looked like. I actually remember not changing the TV station one time when the remote's batteries went dead because I would have to get up to do it. I look at my mother, her brother and sisters, and God love 'em don't want to end up like that.

As for BMI, according to that, I should weigh somewhere around 180-185. In the past six months, I've lost 10-12% body fat and put on 25 non-fat lbs from where I started. Sorry, but BMI is a joke.

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Mister, I hear you on not wanting to end up overly obese! You gotta know that diabetes doesn't come from being fat, for a majority of people, it's the build up of sugars over the years, or over a short period of time, that cause alot of people to become diabetic, then as a result of misaligned insulin discharges, a persons body starts turning the extra sugar in their blood streams into fat cells.

I realize not everyone that is heavy is due to diabetes....

Your commment just seemed really smug and uninformed...

I too have lost a lot of body fat (65lbs) in the last 6 months, and then gained 40lbs back in muscle, yet I still had gone down size n half(on top) and a whole size on the bottom.

There are a few obese people in my family as well.

And BMI is a Medical Standard to go by. It doesn't seem natural, at least I agree with that. According to medical journals, at 5'7, I should weight 145lbs... but they haven't seen the big boned women in my family...
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I do understand that point as well and agree.

BTW, Mister, I'm 28, and thanks for age comparison! LOL Sweets, ever since I started my estrogen therapy my taste for sweets has gone down to none! And my eating habits changed drastically on their own. Unfortunately, I went from eating overportioned meals, and fruity/sugary snacks to only being hungry for maybe two meals a day if that.

So now my diabetes is even harder to control, but easier with the medicine that it was before. Cause not eating is almost as bad as when I was eating!

Activity has been a great help in my blood pressure though... have you noticed that change too?