Actually, I should thank you. I have been so wrapped up in the scientific data that I had forgot that people are looking for simple clear information. I'm going to change the blog a bit to reflect this.
I control my diabetes purely through diet. This is interesting because when I was told of my diabetes, I had actually rode eight miles on my bike to get to my doctors office. This isn't to say exercise isn't useful, it just points up the fact that the central issue is what you ingest.
You say that you are doing low-carb. In some ways I was lucky. I'd never heard of low-carb. What my diet consisted of was low-meter. It wasn't until I had assembled this diet that I found out about low-carb. You have to be careful here. Everybody is different, what might be low-carb for one person may not be for you. The only way to find this out is by using your meter to check what happens to your blood sugars an hour after eating and cataloging what is problematic and what is not. Eventually you will eliminate most of the problem foods and the problem foods that you still ingest, you will find a way to make sure they don't cause hi blood sugars.
One nifty way is exercise. It is a good thing to think of it almost as a dosage to offset high BG's. Suppose you eat an apple and you know, pretty close to where that is going to take you. Say it goes up to 220 after an hour. This means that you have to scrub off 80 mg/L of sugar in an hour. I know exactly how far I have to walk per every 15 mg/l that I need to scrub off (By the way, this exercise should be low intensity.) You will note that I'm talking about exercise exclusively after eating. It isn't that I have anything against exercise. It makes people feel better and you should do as much as you like but here it is strictly a med for safely containing blood sugar.
I still use insulin but I do so as needed. There are somethings that I simply like. I have Pho once or twice a month. I know I need 25u of insulin to keep the rice noodles from blowing me away. I go to the movies regularly and I must have my big tub of popcorn and butter. This is 11u of insulin. Shrimp fried rice is 30u. You get where I'm going here.
I will also tell you that I do take two supplements. I take a one a day multivitamin and a baby aspirin. I also should bring up that low-carb greatly increases your need for salt, as well.
I've been stable for years. I rarely check my blood sugar and within reason, I eat what I want. Recently, I went for an employment examine and I had to tell them that I was diabetic because the tests showed normal. I'm not. This regimen is what preserves me. If I quit it, I get to be a diabetic real fast.
