Alexandra100
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- Type of diabetes
- Prediabetes
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
This is my speculation: I think it is possible that some people's obesity/over weight has caused them to be insulin-resistant. If they drastically reduce the fat, especially internally, it may be that their insulin resistance is resolved and they no longer have high bg even if they eat a "normal" amount of carbs. HOWEVER if they eat too many calories of any description and regain the weight, the insulin resistance will come back.Another question @Resurgam - when you say you're "in remission", does that mean that you have a diet and lifestyle which, while you maintain it, keeps your BS in range, but if you stopped maintaining it you'd be back to out of range BS again? I read stuff about people being cured of T2 but I don't know if that means they no longer have it, or that they have a lifestyle which means that their T2 has no ill effects.
I MO diabetic and pre-diabetic are not very useful terms to describe T2s. It seems to me that there are people who are insulin resistant and people who don't make enough insulin, and people who have both problems at once, in varying degrees. What matters is the level of bg in one's blood and what one has to do to keep it as near normal as possible.