Until I had a constant monitor which I can see exactly which each food is doing to my sugar level I was in the dark, what I discovered was I was eating what they use to call "healthy" food and injecting long term insulin at night and taking 3000 units of Metformin during the day . I was finger pricking before meals and after meals and before going to sleep and when I woke up and I use to wake up with the sugar level of 260. For instance just to give you an example I tried the whole grain sugar free breads that dietitians had me on, I tried one slice in the morning and yes my sugar didn't go skyrocket high at once but stayed high in the 140's for 4 days regardless of whatever I ate before which was tuna salad with lettuce. After 4 days my sugar went back to the levels I was maintaining with the diet which was a fasting glucose between 106-110 which I am now. I tried saltine crackers and I didn't have the same reaction -my sugar went to 134 but 2 hours later it was back to 107. Didn't stay high like what happened with the bread for 4 days later. But this is just my case, I have a friend that is also diabetic and the bread doesn't affect him.
What is new here, is that you can see how each food makes your sugar react for short and long periods, so you know what to avoid and what foods are safe for you.
Of course this requires discipline of no cheating. When there is a food that you know is going to make your sugar high for long periods-don't touch it-not even on special occasions.
If it was as simple as you said how come there are so many people on this forum with diabetes trying to figure it out. This worked for me and another 80 diabetes 2 on the pilot. It didn't work for the people that didn't stick to what the experts were instructing them to do .
So you are saying the game-changer for you was the Libre?
The Abbott Freestyle Libre is available to purchase from Abbot directly, or in some pharmacies. Not all pharmacies stock this in UK, yet. I would agree that the Freestyle Libre is a very valuable tool for people with diabetes. To me, this is still eating to one's meter, only the meter is measuring for the lifetime of the sensor.
At diagnosis, I brought my HbA1c down from 73 (8.8%) to 37 (5.5%) in just over 3 months. Five years on, my last HbA1c was 30 or 4.9%. I am not the only member here who has achieved these results, and maintained them. And all of that was in the dark old ages before the Libre. I have since used a Libre sensor from time to time.
In my experience in both life and as a professional Change Managerr, I have found that for a change to be sustained, the individual must firstly want to make the change, but also if they are empowered to learn, for themselves, what to change, and why, they will buy into their changes much more deeply than if they are told everything they need to know.
On this forum there are several threads where people have posted their success stories, ad over the years I would estimate I have read hundreds of stories of reversal. Not everyone who has reversed their condition, or put it into remission (if they prefer to view it as that) stay around the forum for lots of reasons, but many do.
You could try doing a forum search to find some of those threads. They are inspiring reading.