Originally Posted by teaser

Lowered carbohydrate intake should lower insulin requirements after meals--fat or thin, and whether you're making the insulin yourself or injecting, this should remain true. Not needing to lose weight really shouldn't affect this. That isn't quite diabetes reversal--it's eating within your body's ability to manage blood glucose with reasonable amounts of insulin, for a lot of people that's probably good enough, as long as they stay on the diet.

Also--being normal body weight doesn't necessarily mean that you don't have excess fat in your liver or pancreas, fat there probably matters more than subcutaneous fat as far as diabetes goes.

http://press.endocrine.org/doi/abs/...5.OABA.6.PP07-3

This is a study in obese children with fructose restriction but not calorie restriction, with the diet adjusted to prevent weight loss. Liver fat went down 29.5 percent in ten days--showing that you can target this sort of fat without overall weightloss.