There is also I believe, one *very* important point to make about *normal* BG levels in us LADA's (this is the LADA forum).... Unique to us LADA's (I believe) are a few remaining insulin producing beta cells. We still produce insulin, at varying amounts, which lowers our injected insulin amount, and often in the early stages eliminates it.
This was my primary reason for deciding to follow Dr Bernstein's solution. He (and not he alone - there are some clinical trials supporting this) believe that beta cell destruction is stopped (and sometimes regenerated) by normal BG levels.
Since following his solution my experience is showing signs that confirm this, simply because I can not detect any further degeneration of my beta cells over the 5 months I have been following his recommendations.
12 months ago I started reading, on this forum, about the link between carbs and high blood sugars and thus gradually started to eat to my meter. Looking back, my beta cells were obviously deteriorating, because over the next few months I gradually lowered my carb intake to keep my BG levels at constant'ish levels (around 6.0 pre breakfast). I had a month (feb) of lower BG levels, but lost a stone in weight. By May I was fully LCHF, a stone back on, still with good BG levels around 6.0 pre breakfast. Looking back, I was managing to keep good BG levels through ever decreasing carb intake.
Then I read Dr Bernstein's book. Maybe, just maybe, he and some of the clinical trials were right. With my beta cells definitely gradually (very slowly) deteriorating I felt that I needed to try his solution. So in July I decided to give it a go. Within days my BG levels had dropped 20% to around 5.0 pre breakfast and my BG levels 2 hrs after eating were now much lower and hardly ever increased by more than 0.5mmol.... All in accordance to that forecast by Dr B. In his book.
Over the last 5 months, nothing has changed. My weight has been constant, my carb intake constant and my BG levels are no different now to what they were 5 months ago. Without any doubt at all I believe my beta cells have not deteriorated at all over the last 5 months, and that , I am 100% sure is down to *normal* blood sugar levels.
For info, I am going to try to upload two sets of my BG meter recordings. One for all time recordings, the other for pre breakfast recordings. You should be able to see quite clearly the last 5 months.
Ps. I actually found the transition from LCHF to his dietary recommendations very easy. Basically all I had to do was cut out all fruit (I was having a few berries at breakfast) and cut back on the tomatoes (only one small cherry plumb per meal) and be a little more careful with some root veg and salad eg. Carots and onions.
I found going LCHF a much bigger step than going from LCHF to dr Bernstein's dietary recommendations.... This step is minuscule compared to the switch to LCHF.