I wish someone had told me when I was a young man all about diabetes. It seems to throw your metabolism into emergency weight loss mode, and the quickest way to loose weight is to shed muscle. When I first got it I weighed about 320 lbs. I was fat, but I also had a lot of muscle on me. In fact I was strong enough to lift 200 lb air conditioning compressors onto pallets when I worked at a HVAC warehouse. I could lift one end onto a pallet, then go around the other side and pick up the other end and put it on. Anything heavier and I would get the forklift.
A few years later I had a job as a janitor that for some reason was very stressful, and after about a year I suddenly started to lose a lot of weight. I went down to 240 lbs without even trying. I only noticed that my belt got looser and looser and I kept having to cut a new hole in it every few months. After a while I noticed myself getting weaker and I couldn't figure out why. It wasn't till I weighed myself and found I had lost 80 lbs that I realized there was something wrong with my metabolism, got a blood sugar meter and found out about my condition.
I think that if I had known diabetes would make me so weak I would never had allowed it to happen. Everyone I've met who has diabetes says the same thing.
No man wants to be weak. Even the most wimpy guy doesn't want to be weak. If those public service announcements had emphasized this fact I bet most of the men who have diabetes now wouldn't have it.
