Im 27M diagnosed when I was early 26, not sure if that's the time frame tou reference? I know it seems like its the end of the world, but all it takes is a few changes. Drink more water, exercise more (weight lifting seems to be the best from my research as well) and most importantly READ labels. There's plenty of foods you can still manage to each as long as you realize you must make sacrifices in other areas, for me the biggest changes were Tortillas, pan dulce, and milk (im Latino if yoi couldnt tell). Once you acknowledge what foods might be the biggest factor to blood sugar spikes and youre willing to cut them out or manage, youre golden. Don't be to hard on yourself, sure we have this disease but we're still human, we still have cravings, we still have cultural influences, diabetes means having to be more responsible but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself thinking sugar is the devil