Story time - diabetes control and fats Fun fact:  less than 5% of people with type 2 diabetes can control their disease without medication. Funner fact: all of those 5% are thin, healthy, shit lords like myself who just are unlucky and have the disease. Funnest fact: nothing is stopping the raging cows with acquired diabetes from controlling it but their lack of humanity. So as I've said before, I'm a 6'3" 152lb shitlord who is diabetic, type 2, we exist, and fuck fats for stigmatizing my disease.  I'm also what is known as euglycemic, which means you can't diagnose me through normal means.  I work out, eat low carb, and religiously monitor my sugars, as a result my HbA1c is 5.2 (probably the same as yours) and my fasting glucose is around 75-85 (aka normal).  I still have diabetes, you just can't tell without specialized tests. Only 5% of diabetics are this way.  Not because this is fundamentally hard, though, because it takes basic fucking will power. I'm also a diabetic researcher, I research technology and solutions for better living for diabetes, I started before I manifested the disease primarily because my mother, and grandmother both have this disease too, through no fault of their own (both are healthy, normal weight individuals, our genes just suck). Do you know why most diabetics need meds and insulin from day 1?  Not because it is hard to control this disease (early on, it gets harder and harder to control as life goes on and the disease progresses).  But because fats make up the majority of cases now, and utterly refuse necessary lifestyle changes. They say things like "Well I just can't cut out cake and sweets, tee hee!" Meanwhile I work with five year old kids who do just that, at five years old swear off cake, candy, and anything else they need to because these five year old kids understand they have to be mature and make good decisions to stay healthy. Thanks to fats, not only do most people think diabetes only happens to fats, they don't realize in most humans diabetes is a slow progressive disease that gets worse over time, because in fats it's 0 to beetus in 20 seconds because they don't have the will power to stop stuffing their faces. To me, willpower is the defining characteristic that separates humans from animals.