The idea that diabetes is caused by weight is really toxic.  Yes, 80% of people with type 2 are overweight, but 20% aren’t. Just ask the guy I just heard about who just went on dialysis after experiencing diabetic kidney
failure because no one ever suspected he had type 2 diabetes since he wasn’t fat.

The kidney failure was the first symptom of his diabetes. No one ever tested him for it until it happened. Now his siblings are all testing diabetic too–even the skinny ones–so they can’t donate. None of them had a clue they had a problem because they weren’t fat.

The real problem here is that doctors define “diabetes” with numbers so high that you can be so-called “normal” by many doctors if you have a fasting blood sugar of 124 mg/dl, are spiking up to 199 mg/dl after each meal, and have an hba1c of 6.9%.  You can delude yourself that is normal, but your beta cells know different.