It's good to hear really positive updates.
Did you all get it right to start with. How long would you say before you really knew what you were doing. Do you adjust doses daily depending on what you eat etc. or do you stick to fairly the same ratio / regimes?
I started off as a kid with my parents weighing food and making sure I ate what I was allowed. I used to cheat with cake decorating ingredients and spoons of sugar, but my BS used to cope. Those were the protophane days. Once I was obviously post honeymoon, I was put on the precursor to Novorapid (I forget what it is called) and haven't really looked back.
I got the benefit of an approach that was carb counting before DAFNE appeared and it stood me in good stead as it has always helped me identify the potion on a plate based on size (things like potatoes don't suddenly become more carb dense).
Even when I went through the "can't be ***** testing" phase, my hba1c was coming back in acceptable levels because of this, so I was quite lucky.
Generally I eat what I like and insulate accordingly, although more recently due to low carbing, I've been more regimented than I have for years.
It does amaze me about some of the schemes that the NHS came up with for blood sugar control in the nineties, and I felt very sorry for my cousin, who was diagnosed during that period, as most of what he had to deal with really was rubbish.