text: .why do i keep gianing weight on diabetes meds? i take metformin and avandia, and try to watch my diet.  please tell me if its the meds, or what im doing wrong, and please help me correct it.  my doctor doesnt help in that department    . is there something i can do without taking meds?    thankyou my husband is on these same meds.  it is a challenge.   he does his very best when eating almost no starches.  if you cut out the white and wheat starches (potatoes, all breads and flour products, rice, of course pasta as it is made with flour).  interestingly enough when you stop these you will eat very little butter.  we do walk one to two miles each evening.  we have been bad since the week before thanksgiving and are looking and feeling a little blimpy.  but we will be good again for three weeks, till christmas and new years.  read your side effects, you will probably find it is the meds causing a lot of the problem.  are you using lemon in water every day?  it contributes to leveling your blood sugars.  we also drink diluted cranberry concentrate from the health food store. one pint is $17.00 and makes two gallons with water.  we drink 6 oz before and between every meal to flush poisons out of our systems.  it is quite effective.  this is from the fat flush plan  it is a quite effective weight plan.  going very light on meats will help your triglicerides emormously and lower the three month test.  cutting out all pork made a huge difference.  good luck.