@retiredteacher, when my doctor told me I had “full-blown” diabetes, she also told me that with diet and exercise I could make it go away, just like I “never had it.” I followed her instructions and in three months went from A1c of 6.5 down to 5.8. That was over three years ago, and I have stayed under 6.3 A1c so far. I am at A1c 6.3 now because I ate far too much of the pies, cookies, candies, dressing, etc. from Thanksgiving through the New Year and also stopped exercising. My bad. I have to fix it.