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I'm Type 2. How Can I Gain Weight/increase Body Size?

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Pretoria, ZA

During the course of 2017 lost 30kg and just could not manage to gain back 1kg since. How can I get my weight/body size up again a few kg's?

November 28, 2018
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A DiabetesTeam Member

I can relate to this. I weighed only 100 pounds last year and worried I looked like a person with an eating disorder or worse cancer when neither was true. Over the last year I was able to gain 10 pounds but it wasn't easy. I drank protein shakes plus ate all my regular meals and snacks. I needed to gain weight to prove to myself that it wasn't some other issue being missed. I have been a diabetic for over 40 years and do not take insulin...yet but do take meds.

January 29, 2022
A DiabetesTeam Member

We will just have ro put it in God hand

November 12, 2019
A DiabetesTeam Member

I still have the same problem. I'm now Type1 on insulin and problem persists. Just content for now. It gets tiring.

November 11, 2019
A DiabetesTeam Member

Still Can Not GAIN Any WEIGH . If I GAIN5 pounds this week I lose it in 2 Days. Also I stay constipated and I drink a lot of water. So that's not the problem. Help anybody

November 11, 2019
A DiabetesTeam Member

My husband has had the same problem. So frustrating. Lots of info out there to help lose weight, none to gain. We see an Endocrinologist in a couple of weeks. Hope he can offer some suggestions. Right now my husband is exercising at the gym and we have started a low carb, low sugar whey protein smoothie in the morning. Nice to know we are not alone in this weight gain fight.

November 9, 2019

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