If you consume sugar in sweets, drinks, coffee, or tea, stop. Use some type of artificial sweetner. You will begin to loose weight. Cut the white veggies like potatoes, rice and white bread. Eating more green and yellow veggies with some fruit you like occationally will help. I am type II. I wish I knew I was pre-diabetic before, but my doctor didn't catch it for some reason. Now is the time to act. Walk more, ride a recumbant bike, get a treadmill, lift dumbells while watching TV. We have a bedroom we converted with a TV. We have all of the above and use them while watching TV. Doctor said if I loose 40 lbs, I might be able to come off all my meds. However I was also diagnosed with rumatoid arthritis. So my feet and knees get to hurting when exercising, (the recumbant bike over the treadmill). Wife uses the treadmill. Getting the weight off will help everything. I do love to eat though. My wife is Italian, and had to give up a lot of pasta dishes.