Some people can, and I'm glad you can. Some people can't and it depends on the cause and severity. Diabetes is in epidemic proportions today a lot because of the stupid food habits caused by tv commercials and tempting ingredients put in processed convenience foods. It helps all of us to stop drinking sodas that mess with the blood sugar levels, artificial sweeteners that fool our bodies, very salted foods. Also we are not well educated about nutrition, the chemical processes that constitute Life, how our bodies work and use healthy carbs, fats, proteins, water, vitamins, minerals, etc. and we are just told by the marketers that these sugary, salty foods taste good, which they do meanwhile our bodies are not getting the nutrients they need for the Life process.

Some other people have diseased pancreas that no longer produce the insulin we need to process the healthy carbs even and that is a different story.

Good for you, unfortunately I am not one of those, I am LADA. Well done, keep up the good work.

I agree with the others. It is not a matter of wanting it bad enough. It is a difficult disease that not all can control with diet and exercise, which is what you are doing. The only cure known to date is bariatric surgery and that is not always a sure thing.

I would not use the word "remission", it is being in control as a better word. If you use remission etc, many could think "I can eat what I want now since the diabetes is in remission. Many people can control with diet and exercise and have A1Cs in your range. I am at 5.2 A1C and have been for years, but if I don't take my meds even tho I watch my carbs, etc, my numbers will be out of control

ahh yes, I was trying to think of the word, and it is that it is under control. Now, I don't know what LADA is?

I'm really glad that you got yours under control and don't have to take meds now. I know a few people who are able to be careful with diet and exercise and are okay. I have to struggle along to try to keep my bs level under 200 and hopefully under 150, and idealy my fasting at around 100.

LADA explained.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_autoimmune_diabetes

CONGRATULATIONS!

My brother is able to control it so that it doesn't control him. He was diagnosed in 9/2007 and by November he was no longer on medicationz. He eliminated everything that was white and rightly so because his thumb would go numb when he ate crackers. He wanted to get off ALL of his meds.

My Dad, age 88, WAS taking 2 and today is on Metformin only and controlling it with diet and small exercise by walking around the block twice a day. I don't know what his A1C is tho.

The MEDIA started labeling it as Remission instead of controlling.

that's our media for you....gives a false impression and sounds more dramatic especially when they try to sell their "miracle cures"

remission tends to be used with cancer patients more so and other diseases, the disease becomes inactive, usually it's temporary and the same would be with diabetes, except if you don't continue to watch carbs exercise, etc you will experience high numbers almost immediately.

hmmm the term 'remission' means that the symptoms of a disease stop, though the disease is still there it is quiet. Insulin is not a disease but a necessary body chemical that is normally regulated to keep our blood sugar levels in balance. To have sugar in the blood is necessary but sometimes the level is out of control, out of balance and needs to be gotten back in control. Cancer cells are not ever good to have so that's not a matter of controlling the number of cancer cells, but cancer cells are a disease process that we want to stop, not balance or moderate. When we have, for example, a small tumor, the cancer process would naturally be for it to grow and be aggressive, so when we are able to get rid of them all, it's not controlling it but putting that disease process of growing tumors into remission, stopped, quiet.
The key is the word 'disease'. A disease goes into remission, but out of control blood sugar is more a disorder. There may be disease in the pancreas that causes the blood sugar to be uncontrolled.

I hope that helps.

In the beginning, for many people, it is much easier to control blood sugar, but as with everything, each person is different.