I haven't had a FBG over 4.5 in over 6 months, and my last HbA1c was 31 despite averaging 180g/day of carbs.
I do however find that extended fasting has the greatest impact on my blood sugars. I get the lowest numbers (high 3's) on the third day of a liquid only fast (that's tea with lactofree milk, coffee with cream and water only) After the third day the seem to level out in the low to mid 4's. My fasting insulin levels are verging on normal so I'm hoping that with the other measures I have got this under control.
(Bulkbiker the text I quote from you is from another thread, I hope you don't mind. I also wanted to find something you wrote about 'passing' an OGTT but that's in yet another thread which I can't remember. Either way it stuck in my mind as a remarkable example of control and success).
I just wanted to say to both of you, congratulations on your efforts and success.
It's great to know that there is more than one way to get amazing results when tackling this disease. I find it really inspirational. I mentally log all examples like that, to build up a sort of list of things to try, and things to fall back on if the current idea doesn't work for me.
Debates about optimal approaches are also very interesting and useful, but as with so many things, the approach that's the best for any of us is the approach that we can stick to and make work. And 'optimal' is likely to be very different from one person to another.