Michael Silver of Yahoo Sports has a good article up today about Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler and the way his life has changed since he was diagnosed with diabetes.

Cutler tells Silver that although the adjustment hasn’t been easy, he feels “10 times better” than he did a month ago. Cutler also says he currently weighs a healthy 230 pounds after a 2007 season in which he showed up at training camp weighing 242, was at 235 when the season started and was at 202 by Week 17.

“I was just crushing food,” Cutler tells Silver. “I was eating six meals a day – I’d eat a meal and like 30 minutes later I’d be ready to eat again. Yet I kept losing weight, and they were telling me it was the stress. I was like, ‘I’m not that stressed.’ I mean, my jeans were falling off my body and I was all pale. I looked like hell.”

It’s rather shocking that with all the medical attention professional athletes get, Cutler managed to lose 40 pounds over five months without team doctors diagnosing the problem, but now that he knows what the problem is, Cutler says he’s getting it under control.

“This goes everywhere with me,” Cutler says of the tools used to check his blood sugar. “The first thing I do in the morning is test myself to see where I am, and it’s the last thing I do before I go to bed. This whole thing is a little scary sometimes, but it’s not like you have a choice. It’s part of your life, you know?”