It's so easy for us to negate our positive situations in life and that only helps to sabotage things......it sounds to me like these are two different issues at the moment.

I take metformin as well, but I cannot take a lot of it as it upsets my stomach horribly. I do deal with diarrhea from it even at a lower dose, but it's one issue that I'm willing to deal with. I can't take more than 500mg twice a day. My doc also put me on another med that doesn't cause me any issues, called glipizide. She did this because I couldn't take a higher dose of metformin.

I know it's hard when dealing with more than one issue (diabetes & weight). I wish you the best in finding what will work well for you that isn't something that is detrimental to your health in the mean time.

Take good care!
sabby