It's not always that simple though - I wish it was - I tried extremely hard to drop all my meds and initially felt a failure when it didn't work as lots of here at the time thought all you had to do was eat less than 20g of carbs and hey presto no more meds - it's not like that for some of us my numbers started to rise into double figures that I hadn't had since diagnosis - over a few months I took back my gliclizide and adjusted it along with my carbs to get the optimum level - I agree with
@britishpub that everyone is at different stages in their diagnosis- and there is no stigma to needing meds - whilst I celebrate anyone who can achieve no meds we have to be careful not to give false hope to those of us that just can't for whatever reason