So fuck anyone who wants to guilt me into feeling like shit because I have a chronic-illness. Yes, I'm big. I'm not fucking blind and stupid. Yes I watch my diet. Yes I exercise. I could hike for 10 fucking miles and feel great I just happen to have to take a needle to not die.
Can symptoms be reversed with diet and exercise? 100%. It also sometimes can't without treatment like insulin and other medications, because guess what? My body just doesn't produce that hormone.