Does anyone think it’s possible Amber might actual lose weight but not due to her eating habits but because of the undiagnosed, not treated diabetes that is raging through her body?
It is one of the symptoms of unchecked diabetes. Then again, I wouldn’t be surprised if Amber is on some sort of diabetes medication, and she just has never told the audience about it.
She was given Ozempic, which is a diabetes medication, so it’s not the craziest thing in the world to think that she may also have been prescribed insulin.
Insulin enables glucose to be taken up from the blood into the cells (muscle/fat). If we assume she has type 2 diabetes, then she is already producing (plenty) insulin, but it’s no longer enough to keep her blood sugar within normal limits, since the cells aren’t interested in taking in any more glucose. Additional external insulin therefore forces energy into the already saturated cells, meaning she would likely gain weight.
I consider visible weight loss due to untreated type 2 diabetes to be unlikely. While insulin resistance is present and some of the consumed energy is essentially pissed out, I doubt this occurs to such an extent before other typical symptoms of chronically elevated blood sugar (poor circulation in the eyes and limbs) become apparent.
In type 1 diabetes, which is autoimmune, the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas are destroyed, and the body can no longer produce its own insulin. As a result, blood sugar cannot enter the cells, and people can no longer store energy, so they become dangerously thin. In this case, one could indeed “lose weight.”
This first type can also be “acquired,” somehow through epigenetic factors or triggers such as infections. In that case, however, there would be more pronounced symptoms in addition to weight loss, such as extreme thirst, intense hunger (if that’s even possible here), fatigue, blurred vision, and the risk of developing ketoacidosis, which would be a medical emergency.
