| Every body is different with this disease, you cannot say "well this works for me, why not you" I was once told on another board that diabetes is like a game show, and the host (diabetes) constantly changes the rules. And not everybody can do it alone with diet and exercise, I have tried it, I was very active before they made the official diagnosis, I was hiking in the mountains for exercise when weather was good, I ate heart healthy before this and obviously it was good enough to keep me in control enough to fool the doctor's tests done each year, but as they said above, my honeymoon is over and now I need drugs to help guide me to keep this in control.
And not everyone can accept this and deal with it as efficiently as you seem to be doing. They need help, support of others, the emotions alone having this disease, and the complications that can result can be very frightening. I feel I can handle most anything given to me, but I have to admit, that being told I had this disease when I did not fit the norm to begin with, based on what I read, saw how my family was healthwise, etc, was frightening to me, and a day does not go by that I am not reminded of it.
If God's way works for you, than that is great, I believe in God wholeheartly but I also believe He gave us the ability to make the choices best suited for us. People with diabetes back in the early part of the century did die at a very early age since there was no science involved. And metformin orginally was derived from natural plants, etc.
And I don't feel sorry for myself, do I feel I got a rotten deal as you stated, yes I would be wrong to say otherwise, but I look at this as just a another challenge in my life.
Yes it is a constant challenge to monitor your food, to suddenly learn what they say is healthy for a person without diabetes is not healthy for a person with...I would have a garden each year and grew some great sweet corn and would roast it over the grill, now I find out if I now eat that corn, I spike to over 200 and those spikes up and down can cause just as much damage to your body.
I agree it is a matter of making substitutions for what is right for each person, but some people need to be able to learn how to find the right information, to experiment, that is why they have these forums to help guide people who feel so overwelmed by this disease, and it takes time.
As far as their attitude, their mentality....it is a human reaction to something that can be scarey to some (it can't be turned off) and I feel it is our responsiblity as humans to help guide the ones scared, not knowing, thru this journey that we have been sent on, not tell them they are mentally deficient or deprived. | 
