I've been reading this thread with increasing bewilderment. I'm a 71 years old male with Type 2 that is reasonably well-controlled with Metformin, and my last HbA1c was 47, classed as a 'pre-diabetic' 6.5%. My New Year resolution was to go on a very low calorie diet of no more than about 1000 calories a day, in the hope of permanently reversing my Type 2, and since Jan 1st I have lost 19 lbs, something I try and visualise as nine two-pound bags of sugar lined up on the kitchen table !! I now weigh 14 stone 1 pound, so still classed as 'obese', but edging towards plain 'overweight'. I have stopped eating bread, cakes, biscuits, crisps, rice, potatoes, and root vegetables. My diet consists mainly of plenty of lean meat and fish, eggs, and salads made of mixed leaves, red, yellow, and green peppers, cucumber, celery, and occasionally some cheese or home-made onion soup. I don't suffer hunger pangs, and if 'peckish' I'll have a few walnuts, or a small 'easy peeler' orange. Just can't wait/weight to see what my next HbA1c is !!