From my experience and my careful eating, I don't see any reason why you need to be taking two Metformin a day. You are controlling your numbers to a normal range with diet and exercise and that is very good in my view. Why take a two pills if one is enough? Metformin is not a cure but an aid to blood sugar control, and if you have normal numbers, you body is working well without so much medicine. I am down to one pill a day and if I do more exercise this spring and summer and eat from my garden i think I will be successful at dropping the Metformin. Some doctors prefer easy answers so they prescribe meds because they don't think we will discipline our eating well enough. The exercise is a big plus to your health. Dorisena