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Originally Posted by berryblondeboys
This is all very encouraging. One question though. I have been doing a lot of reading too and have read how people have 'cured' diabetes. But is it it really a cure, or avoiding the symptoms of diabetes? What I mean is, if you give up carbs (or most of them - especially simple carbs), then your blood sugars don't rise as fast - for a diabetic. In someone not diabetic, their insulin would keep the sugars from spiking. I did it with gestional diabetes - got it totally in control with diet. Went from first morning glucose levels of 120-150 to around 70 and never spiking during the day either as I was eating no simple carbs.
But, if this is all controlled by diet, what happens, let's say, your son has a birthday and you have a piece of cake? For a normal person, their insulin takes care of it. What happens with someone who has been eating low carbs to control diabetes? Do they get a spike in blood sugar? or has their insulin started working properly again and can handle the occasional simple carbs (and I mean occasional - once a month or less kind of thing)? Because, if it doesn't, then the diabetes is still there, right? Just that it's controlled by diet. Or am I missing something?
For some people, when they lose the weight and have kept their sugars in good control for a while, their test results will return to non-diabetic levels.
For others, this will not happen, so don't see it as a win/lose thing, if you lose weight and control sugars and are still diabetic, (react to sugars etc) it is not your fault, but will mean staying in control. It may be partly genetic etc.
BLood sugar 101 has a good discussion of this.