If your partner is diabetic, is it wrong to ask them to lose some weight around the stomach area?

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What form of diabetes? Controlled, or uncontrolled?

Excessive weight around the middle is a sign of insulin resistance (the classic "apple shape"). Excess stress hormone cortisol can also cause you to carry weight around the middle. If your partner is type 2 diabetic, they may be completely unable to lose weight without being put on the proper medication (something like metformin/glucophage). If it's caused by stress, pressure from you to lose weight won't help that much.

Rather than asking them to lose weight, why not focus on ways you can help? If you cook the meals or buy the groceries, concentrate on healthier items. If your partner is insulin resistant, carbohydrates are quite often the guilty party. Perhaps if you lower your carbohydrate intake to improve your health and/or lose weight yourself and ask your partner to help you, it will be more effective than asking them to lose weight themselves. You can also add exercise to your life and ask your partner to join you, again to be supportive of you. Take a walk every day. Join a gym. Something you can both do together. That way, you not only improve both of your health, you also have some additional bonding time.

My point is, your partner is most likely aware that they need to lose weight. Being supportive about it rather than adding more guilt and stress will most likely be more productive in the end, and give you both yet another way to bond. Good luck to you.

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Can't hurt, but only your partner can do it for himself/herself - nagging them won't get them to lose it.

It is not wrong.A good partner should ask such things. even if ur partner is diabetic or not, i dont think so therz anything wrong in asking them to loose some weight!

Sounds like an acceptable concern.

You must try to help them eat healthy food and exercise as much as you can. They will feel much better for it.

No actually you are showing you really care. If they talk about exercising then be the one to initiate the plan of going to the gym or a slow airbourn shuffle or walking. Believe me, if you exercise with them they will appreciate it more. It will give them more motivation to accomplish their goals. An aggressive work out will actually help out on lowering the intake of meds. Your partner needs to talk with the doctor and get a dietary plan on nutrition for active sports (track) and discuss with him the how to and what to do on the work out. You will be surprised and pleased with your partner and they will feel a lot better with themselves. One more thing; there is a surgery called Gastrobypass that can be done if the person fits the criteria. It is a surgery where the remove part of the stomach to shrink it so you eat less and your body is forced to loose weight. My wife had it done and she lost 200 lbs in three months + some days.
True stuff.

Her are some web sites for you. The one that ends in de. is a German site but it has English too. That is where she had hers done. The German doctors are more protective of their patients than the American doctors are anyway. I trust them more than the States doctor.

GOOD LUCK!!

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