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Insulin resistance can commonly develop if one or more of the following factors apply: 1  If you are overweight or obese. 2  Having a high-calorie diet, high-carbohydrate or high-sugar diet. 3  Sedentary lifestyle â taking little physical activity.  Taking high doses of steroids over an extended period of 1  time. Having chronic stress.
High levels of insulin have been measured in those who have developed this type of diabetes years later. The body tries to make more and more insulin in the attempt to overcome the cells' resistance to absorbing and using the insulin. This is why this type is called insulin-resistant diabetes. The blood sugar rises because the body's cells are not absorbing glucose, and they begin to starve.