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1/8/13 5:06 P

I agree - you must educate but you must also make a lifestyle change. You can't diet - the roller coaster ride will last forever and in the process it will destroy your most precious organs!! Please, please start with healthy eating...fruits and veggies really are a great way to start changing your diet. Also stay away from anything white (bead, rice, flour the carbs in these foods are really bad for diabetics) you can have a sandwich - on whole wheat bread and it is yummy.
Then you MUST get moving!!! You are way too young to have this horrible disease - I also am too young (55) to have this disease, diagnosed in Aug last year, but I did it to myself. I have made lifestyle changes with my diet and I am moving, moving, moving (Lost 26#!!!) more to go but I am thrilled!!!!
Please love yourself enough to make these changes for YOU!
Good luck on your journey to a new you!!!!

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1/8/13 4:37 P

Don't blame yourself, educate yourself! Two great books: The End of Diabetes by Joel Fuhrman, MD and Death to Diabetes by DeWayne McCulley. Both of these fine men will give you tons of information and hope! Within a matter of months you can kick diabetes to the curb...I know I'm going to using their guidelines. You got the diagnosis early, now you can reverse/eradicate it and enjoy a long and healthy life. Best of luck to you!

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1/8/13 4:13 P

I am only 19 and I was officially diagnosed with diabetes a month back or so. My doctor wasn't very nice about it and I am very discouraged. I know that I really need to get into shape and that I need to eat better and exercise. She put me on metformin which made me sick no matter when or how I took it. So she switched me to Glipizide. I feel so frustrated with myself for getting diabetes. I just can't seem to get started with anything and I feel so discouraged!