A couple of months ago I posted that I believed type 2 diabetes was probably down to weight. I also queried the need for monitoring blood sugar levels: if you felt o.k. after eating a particular food why bother to monitor. I was taken to task by a couple of posters who claimed that slim and normal weight people did suffer from type 2; also that HbA1c measurements didn't tell the full story, and it was the spikes in blood sugar that caused the problems - but what problems?<snip>
Very good news that you have your BG under control.
However (probably like previous posters) there is one thing that I think is wrong with your conclusions.
You say "if you felt o.k. after eating a particular food why bother to monitor".
The point is that most of us don't have a built in sense of when our blood sugar is elevated.
I can't (a couple of hours after a meal) think "Whoops! I can feel my BG is 8.7."
This is the reason for BG meters - to measure what we can't feel.
Many people go undiagnosed for years without feeling any noticeable effect on a day to day basis. It is only when the cumulative effects of constantly elevated BG start to show through physical damage that the underlying diabetes is diagnosed.
Others (such as myself) get very elevated blood sugars quite suddenly (I had a medical the year before I was diagnosed and this didn't flag up diabetes). In my case I had the tiredness, constant urination and sudden dramatic weight loss of half a stone. Once I'd started to take control these symptoms went away but it still took me quite a long time to get my numbers half way decent.
I just can't tell what my BG levels are at any time of the day or week without testing. Often the result is a complete surprise being a lot lower or a lot higher than expected.
Oh, and I note that later down the thread you say that you had unresolved foot problems for years before you were diagnosed which were then attributed to your diabetes. So "what problem?" is "that problem".
Out of interest, what is your height? From the weights you quoted you were quite possibly never "officially" overweight and certainly not obese. It would also help us to work out roughly where you are on the much derided BMI scale.
You seem to be a good example of what can be achieved if you take extreme measures soon after diagnosis by going very low carb and high exercise and getting your weight down significantly within the normal BMI range.