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celepeace · 2 years ago

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My doctor has me on diabetes meds even though I don't have diabetes as a prophylactic, and it's taken... 2? years now but I've been slowly noticing some weight loss and it's like oh cool so the sudden weight gain when I was in my late teens was indeed due to the whole metabolic disorder thing and not just age. Neat. Awesome. Cool. Not at all unnerving

#diabetes is present in my family and my PCOS predisposes me enormously to it so my doc was just like #let's just put you on this juuuussst in case... cause once you have diabetes you can't like. un-have it #i mean props to her for being ahead of the curve in believing diabetes is mostly due to your innate biology and genetics #rather than behavior e.g. diet. which is what evidence nowadays is pointing towards more and more #but i'm like oh so PCOS was having an effect on me metabolically after all and the meds are actually doing things. great /s #i mean i guess i'm happy the meds are like... working? but that's also kinda spooky #i'm also glad the weight loss is INCREDIBLY slow. all the evidence shows fast weight loss is bad for your heart #but slow weight loss due to legitimate lifestyle changes and/or baseline biological changes doesn't have the same health effects #it's on the level of like 10lbs lost per year which is a satisfactory level of slowness #weight loss tw #i wasn't aiming or expecting this to happen and i don't really care either way but it's an interesting indicator #i gained like 80lbs between the ages of 15 and 18 and at the time i blamed it on hormonal birth control #but i guess looking back on it. it's kind of obvious there was something else going on

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