1) Both parents passed from diabetes complications and comorbidities 30 years ago.

2) all my siblings, I'm the oldest of 8, were diagnosed with diabetes, 10-20 years before me. February 2021, A1C 13.5.

3) 3 of my siblings passed.

4) Japanese rice-aholic.

5) Genetics suck.

Hmmm the biggie for me is at least 4 Generations on both sides of the family - at one point there was 22 of us, alive, 1st cousins or closer that were all Type 2

Genetics are Not in my control but what was:

What I ate (processed garbage, donuts for lunch, never ate breakfast), Never getting enough sleep, working shift work for a decade or better, lack of dedicated exercise, allowed my weight to get up there (but I really was going to start eating better and lose some weight, honest, just not today and probably not tomorrow (we have all lied to ourselves like that a few hundred times)

And especially me since I knew my Family Risk was so high and knew what the disease can do and that still wasn't enough to stop me from eating cold pizza as a Typical Meal

Diabetes Sucks, but if you are a Type 2 you should be able to look back a couple years from the time of diagnosis and see exactly what brought it on - and over 90% of the time was the terrible way we were treating out bodies

The statistical facts seem to support that 2% of the population will get Type 2 pretty much no matter what they do but about 12% of us have it - that means only 1 in 6 "was destined", the rest of us helped ourselves join the club....

Immediate Family and Relatives as well as Obesity for me. Worked on the weight aspect but couldn’t do anything on family lineage. Regards all.

Wonderful Wednesday 8/14/24
The women in my family have diabetes (type 1 and type 2) my grandparents on my mother side both had diabetes. My mom had type 2 in her early 40's I followed her footsteps ; it was my 45th year for me. I am the oldest of six
( five of us still living) one of my sisters has type 2. My oldest daughter is borderline, youngest is a type 2 diabetes and my son has nothing so far. My ex-husband (COVID took him out two years ago) but he had type 2 also.
My two cents.

Family history
Wrong Life style ( which I am working only Daily)
Sugary rubbish that is in so called ''Health Foods''