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Originally Posted by NanaChristmas

Yeah, it was 600 calories last time, now it's 800, consisting of 4 drinks/soups a day and nothing else for 17 weeks.
If only life was that simple.
Eating sugary foods doesn't give you diabetes anymore than eating fatty foods, it's the fat around your pancreas that stop them working, hence they then can't control the sugar balances in your body.
You can really crave sugar if you are diabetic as your body is telling you it needs it when you probably don't. You can also eat sugary foods if you are diabetic but you need to control the cravings.
Not all diabetics are overweight, let alone obese.
Some families are more prone, if it's in the family then you have a higher chance of developing it.i stood no chance..both sides of my family have it.
The less you eat as a diabetic then the lower your sugar levels will be, that's the easy bit, it's stopping it going too low you have to watch out for...coma in your sleep can be deadly.
We are all different, I could lose my appetite for months on end and eat only sweets and sugary treats and still end up losing weight and having hypos every morning to a dangerous degree.
Finding the best balance for the individual is best.

Yes, no, yes, no!

Sugar is a carbohydrate and if you eat too much of any carbs and don't burn them off in energy, it gets stored as body fat. Your right that you don't need to look obese. You can layer your organs with fat whilst still looking quite trim. Fatty liver disease is often found in young slim but inactive people, though it affects obese people too. So sugary foods don't give you diabetes so long as you burn those sugars off and avoid putting a fat layer around your pancreas (I'm talking type 2)

Are you type 1 or type 2? You sound like a type 1