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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2641891" data-attributes="member: 150927">Hi [USER=306302]@dmcd15[/USER].  As you probably gathered from above - there is no short answer.  Because Type 2 Diabetes is a metabolic disease, all those metabolic processes and systems come into play, and these things play out differently for different people. It's the nature of the beast - and what a beast this disease is! (In my humble opinion at any rate.)I am a type two who considerable weight loss has not made a long-lasting impact on my insulin resistance based type two, as in complete remission at any rate. Metformin does not have a long-lasting effect on my morning insulin/glucose spurt (aka the dawn phenomenon).  I have just recently lost a couple of kilos, and watched my blood glucose readings make no response at all. So, it turns out I am good on weight loss, not a high flyer on remission (which is what I was going for, but hey!).In the early days post diagnosis, weight loss and exercise, and of course - eating much lower carb and no added sugar made a tremendous impact on my HBA1c. But now I am all about defending the status quo, which is in the prediabetes range, as low on it as I can (not very low as it turns out).  I now also understand the life of my cells, and how they work and don't work, much more deeply. My main advice and answer to your question is - you can only try it, and find out! Keep good records. Buy or have prescribed if you are lucky enough for that - lots of blood glucose test strips, start measuring your waist for a waist height ratio reading, get a set of scales you can bear looking at for your marker records - and start experimenting and recording. By the end of a significant marker recording period you will have a lot of information about how your T2D plays out, so you can treat your T2D accordingly, and keep and gain the best health in the circumstances. (Your circumstances!)But yes, I agree with those above, do all this with medical supervision. I had very close medical supervision in my early days when I was trying the big experiments. I learnt a lot from that, and now there is no point in medical supervision at all (I am 9 years on).   But they are how you get the good important tests done, and having medical professionals onside when it comes to what they do really well - the medications side of it, is VERY important, indeed.Good luck with your weight loss experiment, in any case. I look forward to following that journey of yours, if you decide to proceed.</blockquote>

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