Hi Sketcher,
My diabetes is not cured and may never be, but it has gone. Because I have lost so much weight, 5 stones, my body now produces what it needs to stop me being diabetic. It took me just over a year to lose the weight and during that time my diabetes nurse was amazed to be able to reduce my medication every few months. I was on 10 various tablets each day, I can't remember the name of all of them, some were for the diabetes and others for blood pressure and cholesterol. Surely if the nurse thought my diabetes would return if I ate something naughty she wouldn't have stopped my medication? She would also have told me to expect highs and lows as a diabetic would. I would like to understand more about what has happened and how I can mantain my present condition. I can virtually eat what I want, but I don't! I had diabetes once and I didn't like it. I know what it's like to be unable to move form the sofa after some meals, and I know what it's like to be hit by a hypo after not having enough to eat in the morning. None of that happens now, no hypos or hypers, no drained tired aches. I 'lost' (note the quotes) my diabetes in July 2012, I have eaten foods that would have severely affected me 2 years ago, now they don't. BUT through this forum and a bit of advice from a doctor friend I know that I have to look to the future. That means eating now as if I was a diabetic, because as you say, I am not cured. For me, weight loss has been the key. It might work for others. My blood presure is nearly normal, my cholesterol is nearly normal, I gave up my statin 18 months ago to see if it was agravating my arthritis, I don't need it now.
Lee.
