that's awesome!!!!!!! :D

Yeah! :D

So what ~WERE~ you doing exactly?

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Well, it's not even like I exercised more (though exercise is certainly a good thing). I did little things. Like:

* I stopped buying the normal ice cream, and started buying the low-fat ice cream.
* I stopped buying three Ritter Sport bars a week, and cut down to two a week, and none of them are the butter biscuit variety. I already long since dropped the habit of eating cheap candy aisle crap, largely because it tastes terrible.
* I stopped buying cookies at Subway.
* I stopped eating chicken alfredo at Pasta Hut.
* I stopped buying Freschetta pizza altogether, and started getting one Amy's margherita pizza a week and making two home-made margherita pizzas other times in the same week. When I make my homemade pizzas, I do not add any olive oil.
* I started eating a lot more salad. I put chicken and mayonnaise in it, though.
* I seldom eat beef or red meat anymore. Maybe six or seven times a year, max, and then it's a real treat.
* I already haven't been in the habit of drinking sodas for well over a decade, but I finally stopped drinking Izze as well, which is a carbonated fruit juice I was fond of.
* For snacks, I'm eating more unsalted peanuts, baby carrots and Greek yogurt.

I still have lots of foods I like. I've just learnt to eat smarter and healthier. I'm probably still getting a bit too much cholesterol, but my sugar, fat and salt are all reduced.

Good for you! My Mom also has "pre-diabetes" even though she's not overweight (there's clearly a genetic susceptibility). She was even in a long term study on treating type 2 diabetes that recently wrapped up. The general results were that, if you lost weight, your insulin sensitivity will improve. It think mild aerobic activity (30 min jogging every day) had some benefit too, but less so. Losing weight is also really simple (but not easy). Just get a food diary and track your calories each day. If you burn more calories than you've eaten that day, you lose weight! Slowly lower your calorie intake until you level out at a healthy weight, and then just keep that up for the rest of your life, lol. You don't even need to exercise, since exercising burns very few calories (although it does improve your health in other ways). Besides keeping an eye on your salt intake, limiting the amount of fat or red-meat you eat likely won't have a big impact on your health as long as you keep a varied diet. You should also know there's no scientific basis behind multi-vitamins, super-foods, low-fat, organic, paleo-, high-protein, weight-loss supplements, or herbal remedies. Those diets and supplements become fads because people want an easier solution to being healthy, but unfortunately it mostly comes down to good genes and just eating less.

gastric bypass has been known to alter the way the body digests food and therefore "cures" type two diabetes.

I control everything i eat now and it SUCKS, but it helps... but SUCKS! But a proper diet can cure many things :).

but not Epilepsy :(

Do you prepare much of your own food from ingredients?

Nearly all of them, I save all bones to make my own stock too. The more you monster and can control, the healthier things become

Ain't that the truth. Also, homemade stock - is it delightfully gelatinous and turns solid in the fringe? :3

Most are :) , other is liquid for immediate use

Good to know now. :3 I didn't know that before - I was in damage management mode, thinking that it could only be slowed down but never cured. ...but I'm decidedly not eager to start eating junkfood every day again.

well type 2 can be cured by exercise and diet change; to get rid of excess fat

now type 1 is still a problem :o

Indeed.

sadly Type 2 will increase with world obesity rates

It's already greatly increased in the Marshall Islands, where I grew up.

I don't want to sound like I'm being nasty here, but its actually more common in black people for some reason, maybe because of their metabolism.

However black people are less likely to get osteoporosis (weakened bones) than white people (who are less likely to get Type 2 diabetes, unless if they're obese), so maybe its just a balance of strengths and weaknesses.

The Marshall Islands are in the Pacific. They are not African.

mmm, well its also the same with Polynesian people too. They're not used to the high calorie diet of consumer nations :o

The Marshall Islands are Micronesian. But yes, they are not as accustomed to such a diet either.

ah I see