Question on reversing t2d

Hi @mrnumlock84 .. I have got my T2 in remission .. I think the term reversed is a little misleading. I was told I was T2 just over 2 years ago ... I followed the Drs eating advice and pushed my bs even higher .. Started my T2 at 6.0 and three months following the nice eating guidelines was up to 23.0 .. So took things into my own hands and went low carb high fat.. It worked in reducing my blood sugars .. I test regularly and this is when I realised I must be in remission as all my home testing is in the no diabetecs range.. As are my Drs tests .. I started eating higher carbs and found no impact of n my blood sugars ..
In the 18 months I was on 20g of carbs a day I lost 5 stone ... I feel great .. I now eat between 50 to 100g of carbs a day .. This was my carbs before I was told I was diabetic .. But now I eat a lot more fats like olive oil and coconut oil and no low fat products at all.
I know if I gained my weight again and ate the stupid levels of carbs and low fat the gov guidelines tell us to eat I would be T2 on insulin now ...
Hope this helps ...
My dsn says I am stupid and I should eat to the government guidelines !

Being diagnosed with diabetes is all about controlling your blood glucose level. It is entirely possible to get very good control. I don't view this as reversing diabetes, I view it as well controlled diabetes. I think there is a lot of misleading information about type 2 diabetes floating around. I'd say if you started eating how you used to eat it wouldn't take long for your blood sugar to be out of control again. So it's really not the case that there is a cure or it can be reversed. But I wish you the best on your journey to getting good blood glucose control.

If you look on the term <<reversing>> as simply reducing your HbA1c from a high reading down to a significantly lower level, then there are many on this forum that can claim to have reversed their diabetes. But this effect is temporary, and requires changes to lifestyle to keep the levels down.

The only people who are making claims to permanently 'reverse' diabetes are usually trying to flog us a product. Everyday brings new announcements for a CURE for diabetes, but sadly it turns out to be jam tomorrow, and we are not yet there. One day it will probably happen, but today we have to accept that diabetes can be controlled but not cured. I would rather we used the term remission, and leave Reversal to the snake oil salesmen.

I have to agree with others that the term reversing is very misleading: my last 3 HbA1c readings have all been in the non-diabetic range and my fasting reading is normally in the 4s, but that doesn't mean I'm cured or have reversed my diabetes: it just means I'm very careful what I eat and have tight control over my blood sugar: if I eat high carb food, my blood sugar skyrockets!

The way I think of it is that diabetes is a condition which means I can't regulate my blood sugar properly: I can control the symptoms (I.e the blood sugar) by careful eating, but I can't do anything about the underlying condition that causes the issues

If people need to think they are "cured" or have "reversed" their diabetes then who are we to tell them they haven't ? But personally I just consider that currently I have my TD2 under control, and I will endeavour to continue that way for as long as is possible.

I consider my husband's type 2 diabetes to be reversed. He used to eat food that I/we now know is unhealthy. He now eats a healthy diet, as do I. As a result, he is no longer ill. All symptoms of diabetes have gone, inappropriate "numbers", thirst, tiredness, depression etc and his retinopathy has, to quote his ophthalmologist, "regressed" in a way that he considers "amazing".
Of course, if my husband were to insist on eating an unhealthy diet, he would become ill as so many of the population are doing on a daily basis.
As for the suggestion, which some might make, that he (and probably me too because I'm not used to it) would "fail" a glucose tolerance test, neither of us would anymore drink a glass of glucose solution than we would consume a glass of cyanide - irrelevant, it's just not what we do.
Sally