| Achilles,
Everyone is different. They have different goals, and everyones body is different. It is also true that everyone has a different ability to commit to a plan. I would tell you that for myself at 5'11'' and 205 lbs, I have committed to dramatic changes with mixed results. I lost weight and built muscle mass through exercise. I changed my diet to dramatically reduce carb intake. Yet despite my best efforts, my fasting blood sugar still are outside of what I deem acceptable. I often find my morning levels are at 120-130 mg/dL. I already take metformin, but will very likely in the near future will choose to take more aggresive medication.
I guess I would say that diet and exercise may or may not help you reach your goals alone. For a type II, certainly the two primary treatments should be diet and exercise. However, diet and exercise alone may not be suffiicient to put your diabetes in remission and often, in the end you willl need to accept more aggresive medication and insulin therapy. But by no means, should you ever give up on diet and exercise as your primary defense against the big D.
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...brian
T2 since 7/05. 48 yrs. 5'11 195 lbs.
Exercise, very low carb diet
HbA1c 9/07 - 6.3%, 3/08 - 6.2%, 6/08 - 6.2% | 
