Diabetes: Weight Loss Helps Diabetes Sufferers



Weight issues and diabetes have been linked for years. But, the good news is that the problems assosicated with diabetes may be reduced by finally getting the diet under control.

If you are one of the nearly 20 million people (1) who suffer from Type 2 Diabetes, the good news is that weight loss can dramatically improve your condition. In fact, weight loss has played an important role in helping many people with diabetes stop needing insulin shots or even medication.

So why are so many diabetics still overweight, and still handling needles and pills every day? They continue to struggle with weight for the same reasons everyone else does. Weight loss takes time, it requires perseverance, and you must adhere to a strict diet.

Here are the two largest obstacles to weight loss for people with Type 2 Diabetes:

  1. Most diets result in minimal weight loss from week to week, which fails to keep them motivated.
  2. Most diets, in particular the "diabetic diet", require careful monitoring of every portion consumed.  This is tedious and hard to keep up.

Finding it too difficult to persevere with the diet, they give up and resign themselves to their regimen of insulin or pills.

But there is an alternative that works.

Fast Weight Loss for Diabetes Patients

If you struggle with being overweight or obese and have diabetes, continue reading to learn about a weight loss program that has been proven to work for diabetics. Medifast produces fast weight loss results, and consistently helps dieters lose from 2-5 pounds a week. It is not uncommon to see losses of 10 pounds or more in the first week on the program, which makes it highly motivating and easier to stick with.

If you are fed up with trying to fix diabetic meals or journaling all your food, you will love the simplicity of the Medifast diabetes weight loss program. Most of your meals will actually be replaced by Medifast's convenient and healthy supplements--which take little or no preparation--and there are several meal replacements specifically designed to be used by diabetics, so you will have enough variety to keep it interesting. You will be able to choose from shakes, bars, oatmeal, fruit drinks, soups and chili.

With Medifast, you eat every 2-3 hours, which helps prevent feelings of hunger or swings in blood sugar that can cause irritability. With supplements specially designed for diabetics, you can be assured that you are getting the proper nutrition you need, which will help you lose weight quickly and easily.

Research Proves Medifast Helps Diabetics Lose Weight

Researches at Johns Hopkins University have proven the effectiveness of Medifast for diabetes weight loss. Their study (2) showed that of the participants, diabetic dieters following the Medifast program lost twice as much weight as people following the American Diabetes Association diet. The biggest payoff found in the study, was that 24 percent of the Medifast participants decreased or eliminated their diabetes medication. None of the ADA diet participants were able to reduce or eliminate their medication.

To learn more about the Medifast weight loss plan for diabetes patients, or to read more about the findings of the study on Medifast's effectiveness for diabetes weight loss, go to the official Medifast site.

(1) Growing diabetes epidemic: Patient/physician disconnect on disease management. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/pn-gde053106.php

(2) Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health find meal replacement more effective for weight loss and reduction in diabetic medication than standard food diet. http://medifast1.com/diabetes/study/downloads/final_results.htm Read more about the diabetes weight loss study.

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