Hi Ironmaiden, welcome
oooh, there's a great diabetes site where the author Jenny just blogged on why the GI diet isn't effective for some diabetics, let me go find you that link... BRB
Here ya go, scroll down to her August 6th entry:
http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/
That whole blog and all it's archives, and her site linked to it, "What They Don't Tell You About Diabetes", is absolutely fabulous reading. I've learned more in the months since I "found" it, than in my previous 6 years as a diabetic.
Congratulations on finding your way here. Atkins, Bernstein, or a good very low carb plan, is definitely the way to go to save ourselves from diabetes.
I couldn't be a more enthusiastic advocate for low carb eating, the way it's turned my health around. This time last year, I was in unbelievably bad health, thinking I was around the corner from disability and a call to The Scooter Store. Seriously, at the rate I was deteriorating, I feared I didn't have long to live.
When I started last August, I was a walking pharmacy, on 4 diabetes meds: 1500 mg of Metformin xr, 30 mg of Actos, 20 mg of Glipizide, I had just started Lantus (insulin), plus, I was on 40 mg of lisinopril for high blood pressure, and 40 mg of Lovastatin for high cholesterol. And still, my blood sugar numbers spent part of every day in the 300's and my BP uncontrolled at 160/90, and my cholesterol sky high.
I'm now off the Lovastatin with much improved cholesterol numbers, off the Lisinopril with normal blood pressure (low-normal, actually, typical readings are like 106/59), off the glipizide, off the Actos, and down to 14 units of lantus once a day. I think I'll be off it soon, then it will just be metformin. My blood sugar readings are always in a normal range now, 78 - 110, and still improving. I never would have thought it possible, but I think another year of my metabolism healing, and I may be able to control my diabetes by diet alone.
And oh yeah, I've lost 91 pounds.
Wishing great success for you, too!