Weight training should definitely be part of your strategy going forward but cardio should be just as important.
Dr Roy Taylor is the guy who finally figured out type two diabetes. Look him up on YouTube. He found that every type two diabetic becomes that way when they reach their personal fat threshold. This is when your subcutaneous fat is maxed out and you start storing fat inside your liver and pancreas causing insulin resistance and diabetes.
Now, the personal fat threshold is just that, personal or unique. People from Asia reach it at way lower body weights than Europeans that is why diabetes is so rampant in India for instance. Skinny people who brag they can never gain weight and eat like they want and never exercise are simply storing their excess energy in their visceral fat which is really unhealthy. Energy is matter, it simply doesn’t disappear, it has to go somewhere and even if these skinny people have a high resting metabolic rate they can still easily surpass it.
Therefore, it is simply a disease of long term excess energy consumption which is what has happened to you.
If you want to reverse it and not have to take medications at all it is probably still possible if you do it early enough. I caught mine pretty early once my fasting glucose went over 100 consistently I knew I was headed for trouble. (My daughter was type one diabetic so I tested my own blood once in a while).
What did I do? I got lean as I could as fast as I could. I went from 245lbs at 6’3” to 175lbs in six months and all the symptoms disappeared. My fasting blood glucose is now 85 and an ultrasound shows no fatty liver anymore.
My waist went down to 32”
Do you have to cut out all carbs? I didn’t. I just counted calories every single day and never cheated on my set out diet once in that time period.
I eat lean ground beef, chicken breast, eggs, white rice, sweet potatoes, carrots, avocado, red pepper, cucumbers, zucchini, cauliflower, mushrooms.
My macros are about 33% protein, 33% carbs, 33% fat.
I lost all the weight eating around 2000 calories per day and now maintain on about 2400 calories.
I do fasted cardio 4 days a week and a basic dumbbell circuit 3 days a week. My days of being bulked are over.
