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Can a person with type 2 diabetes control his diabetes with exercise and nutrition instead of using insulin?

By  Ron Hunter , Keto Diet Diabetic Can a person with type 2 diabetes control his diabetes with exercise and nutrition instead of using insulin? So, 3 and 1/2 years ago, Iā€™d get up and test my blood sugar and inject a minimum of 60 units of Lantus. If it was particularly high, Iā€™d inject a bit more Lantus to start the day. I carried around a Novolog pen. If I was eating a pretty starchy or high carb meal, Iā€™d inject 15 to 20 units to help control the blood sugar spike. My A1C was in the 9ā€™s (over 190) even with all this treatment. I was taking 3 blood pressure medicines to keep my blood pressure under control. I wasnā€™t particularly obese and was still within the ā€œnormalā€ range for BMI. I wasnā€™t uncomfortable with my weight, but I was damn sure uncomfortable with those blood sugars. So, I started a ketogenic lifestyle. I cut my carbs to the bare minimum. I continued to test to see what foods trigger my blood sugar. (Sugar alcohols in ā€œsugar freeā€ foods really give it ...