So this is all my opinion, not medical advice. I am a type 2 diabetic. Weight is a factor, but it is not a direct cause always. The issue with type 2 is insuli

So this is all my opinion, not medical advice. I am a type 2 diabetic. Weight is a factor, but it is not a direct cause always. The issue with type 2 is insulin resistance. That is caused by eating too much foods with high carbohydrate and sugar content. Carbs break down to sugar, sugar is processed by insulin. If you overload your body you start to produce a lot of insulin, after a while it starts becoming less effective - you begin to get insulin resistance, your body produces more insulin to combat the high blood sugar (which is absolutely scarily deadly in pretty low sugar levels) and your hit the point where your blood sugar can no longer be managed correctly via your insulin production and you start getting serious health degradation (eyes, kidney, liver, vascular, and nerve damage.) Obesity is one of the side effects of high sugar - you can't process all the glucose your body is synthesising, so your body converts what it can to glycogen and the rest is stored as fat. So - being fat can contribute to type 2 diabetes, but type 2 diabetes also has weight gain as part of the process of becoming type 2 diabetic. It is a vicious circle. Carbs and sugar are the real issue in my opinion and experience. We were sold a lie - that our bodies run on carbs, and carbs are the best fuel. This is not true. Carbs are actually the worse of the options. A better diet is based on less carbs, more natural fats. Our bodies burn fat for fuel more efficiently and insulin levels do not spike after each meal. The best thing you can do as a Type 2 is cut down carbs and sugar. If you can cut them down to a minimum, you will lose weight quite steadily and as you do your body will effectively have some breathing space to try to get back to a reasonable level ground. I personally use keto and intermittent fasting (this is not an endorsement or recommendation - it works for me) and I've dropped 10 kilos in the last 2 months. Not only do I feel better (less headaches, more energy, more ability to function in the morning, less hunger) I also feel like I don't need the constant carbs and sugar being shovelled in to my body on a daily basis anymore. They are not even all that pleasurable anymore - usually anything "sweet" tastes like pure sugar to me now - and that is the best think I could do for myself - because I don't seem to be craving foods with sugar, I am not caught in the trap of worsening my condition.