Hi,

I've just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and am kind of reeling because I've improved so much from the days when I'd have a large bag of M&Ms and a bottle of Coke for lunch (also all the talk of amputations and blindness they hit you with).

But my program has been very loose this summer, so I'm trying to see it as the incentive I need to get back on track. After years of never being full in the morning, I finally got a decent blender, tried gluten-free oats in my shake and discovered it tastes pretty good and fills me up, who knew?

I've been on the program for eight years now, but never made it past step 5 and have repeatedly backslid (because I didn't truly want to give up sugar, probably because step 1 was never truly stable).

Now giving up sugar is a necessity, I'm wondering what sort of time frame I should be looking at without making it too hard for myself, or letting myself get sicker.

If anyone has any experience of this and can share what they did, I'd love to hear it. I keep seeing articles about super low-calorie diets and how t2 diabetics need to do them and panicking, even though my doctor isn't encouraging me to do that at all -- just to dramatically cut down on sugar ASAP.

I guess my question is, how soon is P?