It has been an interesting discussion and a conclusion I'm drawing is that there are wide ranges of folks and conditions and weights where type 2 is present. I was dx as pre-diabetic in my early 40's, heck it might have even been in my late thirties. I thought no way would that happen to me. I did not change and gained more weight. I then was dx as type 2 and I lived in denial. I bought a bicycle and rode it some fooling myself into thinking I was doing something positive. I was put on Metformin. Then after a winter of not doing much my DR. was a bit bothered by my stats getting worse and upped my meds. I was per his scale at the time 289 pounds. About a month later I became serious about riding my bike. My weight slowly came down. I changed how and what I ate. My cycling duration, intensity and frequency increased. In steps over 3.5 years with each lab result getting better or unchanged from the previous one. Over time I have lost weight down to about 213 per my Dr. scale (it is less than that now at home) and I am off the metformin and my dx has been reversed to one as my Dr. says "if anything you are borderline pre-diabetic" and likely to improve as you lose more weight. The major differences between now and then are I not only cycle but actually am training to be better so at least a couple days a week I do a hard ride where I get my heart rate in high z4 to z5 (per zones as Garmin figures based on rhr and max hr) spend >10 hours a week exercising, plus I track how much I eat and mostly (MOSTLY) try to eat less than I burn.
[MENTION=17991]genec[/MENTION] heed the warning. Something you are doing may be contributing to your dx. Is the family history of Gout the only reason you went veg? If it has not become a religion consider mixing it up and changing your diet, of course paying attention to avoid the foods or quantities of foods that trigger Gout. Change your exercise, IMHO much more important than any diet change, and actually train for improvement. Max your heart rate for an extended period of time. Add weight training, swim more, ride hill repeats at max effort. Do a bi-weekly tt and track your improvement or lack there-of and make changes until you are improving.. Lose the 15 pounds. Make changes and fight this disease, you may not be able to defeat it but you likely can reduce its impact.