Heard it on the Dr. Oz show that virtually "anything" can be reversed, including diabetes. Now with that said, for the last 2 months, my fasting levels have been consistently under 100(with my diet being quite healthy and excercising almost everyday). Those days when I eat a bit unhealthy (ie. slice of cake, or some other form of sugar with bad food like fries), my fasting levels in the morning sometimes goes above 100, but never above 120. Last wk I ate pretty good one day, including 2 slices of cake in the evening, and my fasting level the next morning was around 114.

I've done my experiments and I've eaten several slices of pizza, burrito's, french fries, and foods of that nature without implicating my fasting level at all (at most may go up a little bit above 100 but I've never seen my fasting level sky-rocket). Now, I do once in awhile check my level 2 hrs after eating these types of food and same deal, the result is never at a crazy level.

I know I'm merely "controlling" my sugar levels, but quite frankly, if I'm able to slowly but surely intake more and more unhealthy food without "killing" my sugar levels, than am I not slowly "de-diabetizing" myself??

PS. I'm not on any type of medications at this point.

And you have said the magic word. You have your diabetes under "control". Personally, I believe if you re-introduce those types of foods you might find yourself down the road even worse off as more damage occurs without you realizing it.

Perhaps a better option is to keep your healthy lifestyle and indulge yourself every so often. Overall you'd still be "controlling" your disease, but you wouldn't feel deprived of those refined carbs you miss. Unless you're like me, who's so addicted that if I do that I just know I'll start having overwhelming cravings. It took me too long to eliminate those cravings so I personally don't want to re-introduce that stuff into my diet.

Cheers.

the word virtually is the key. the only diabetics i have ever heard of that no longer are; are those have transplants. even some of those don't work. the rest of us control or manage it in someway either with meds, diet,exercise or a comb. of two or three. by the way most transplants are if all else fails kind of thing.

At this point you are simply controlling the diabetes by food selection. For me if I add even a bit of heavy carbs I run into the 200 to 300 range. No diabetic is alike were all different, if you are still young your pancreas is still functioning for you and you are not insulin resistant. I knew of one diabetic that did what you did and in a year was back into the 500 range. The body can only take that so long and then bam it rebels. You have been given an opportunity to limit any problems you have, I would take that opportunity and run with it.

Great feedback - don't get me wrong, I am certainly not trying to get careless in my ways and eat unhealthy - I understand that this is a lifestyle change and I have to stick to it for the long-haul. I guess I have to acknowledge that I will always be simply "controlling" my sugar metrics and not necessarily eliminating diabetes.

The longer you can control your diabetes by not stressing the pancreas the longer you prevent damage and also extend the life of the panreas. As long as you dont put due stress on the pancreas it could last a very long time without meds. You are doing all the right things now way to go.

I was diagnosed in 3/09 and at that point my bg was app 400. 7 months later, with medication and a huge adjustment in diet and exercise level I am averaging low 120's, feeling better and many of the obvious symtoms that I had prediagnosis have been aleviated. What I have found in the past 7 months is that I know what I can eat and what I can expect when I stray. I am not starving but I am careful as seeing my bg spike to 190 or 200 after a bad meal is for me difficult mentally.
I think we would all love this disease to go away but I dont think thats going to happen, at least not for me. So, I am careful, pay attention and will continue to do so. This can be a very serious illness if taken lightly and thats not what I am looking for.

That is so true Catcher. I was kind of down today, because I was on another site and a person posted how they just got the pre-diabetes diagnosis but wasn't in the mood for lectures. Because it's only "pre" she says she doesn't need to make changes. She's only looking for support.

I told her that her diagnosis was a gift. That she has a chance to possibly change her future. She didn't want to hear it. It made me very sad.

I'm a strong advocate of glucose testing, but glucose testing only tells us so much. It can tell you that your endocrine system was able to hold your blood glucose within the normal range, at least at a given moment in time. It can't tell you how hard it was for your endocrine system to achieve that -- or how close it came to failing at it. It can't reveal how insulin-resistant you are, or how much extra insulin you had to produce to make up for that resistance, or how close your pancreas is to being unable to produce that much insulin.

So, being told that your blood sugar was normal this morning is sort of like being told that your company was able to make payroll last Friday. It's good news, of course -- but it doesn't mean there aren't any hidden problems going on. So, the best policy is not to let your guard down. Keep working on the problem as if there were no indications that you're making progress on solving it!

I am also in the not-medicated group. :knocks wood:

I glucose test daily, at random times (and experimentally) and have discovered that seemingly innocuous foods (example: fat free turkey hot dogs ) radically affect my BG. You cannot know how foods adversely affect you unless you glucose test every day all day.

I am not so cavalier as to think that just because my BG is well under control that my D will just go away. Small dietary changes over a period of time can add up to BIG issues for you in the long run. It's a scary path filled with monsters.

I was an ER nurse for many years and saw the very worst conditions caused by uncontrolled D...gangrene, heart disease, kidney failure, blindness.

My life, and yours, are worth the very, very best care that we can give ourselves. Medicated or not.

PS: Thank you tomross, for your webpage link in your sig. Great to believe there is long-term hope for me to also be "not medicated yet" You rock!