It wasn't, I got lucky because I was undiagnosed with no symptoms whatsoever until my foot went up like a balloon. I don't want to think what would have happened if my foot hadn't gone off the way it did.
Dietitian told me to lose 5kg in a year (they always say that, it's easily achievable to anyone without any major changes), I told her "No, I can do that standing on my head, you'll get at least 10", and went on to drop 15 in 5 months by eating better, but less of it. I now eat three per day, healthy breakfast instead of "just coffee", main meal around midday and something light at night. Snacking in between is cut out unless it's a little fruit, usual substitute for snacking is a cup of decent Earl Grey tea as that has been shown to have an effect on cholesterol and blood sugar, in a good way, thanks to the bergamot that gives it the flavour and because your belly feels that something has gone into it, the feeling of hunger goes. Grains, fresh fruit, red meat, white meat, you name it apart from anything high in fats and/or sugars goes in, just the quantities have changed. As said before, white bread is eliminated, same with traditional white wheat flour (Buckwheat flour's one of the best to substitute white flour, makes a lovely sauce base it does) so bread's are multigrain, spelt, oat, or it's pumpernickel/sourdough.
Everyone's different, you can't say that because you have type 2 that fasting of any kind is the only way to get rid of the gut, the only thing that is common across everyone is "shovel in less energy than you use", that's the only way that does actually work, even with certain medical issues which promote the gaining of weight, as I know someone with thyroid issues who still lost 10kg in 3 months by changing her lifestyle and diet just a little bit so she used more energy than she shovelled in.
