Adults with type 2 diabetes who follow a very-low-carbohydrate diet tend to reduce their diabetes medications significantly over three months, no matter how they track their blood sugar levels.

In adults with type 2 diabetes, following a medically supervised very-low-carbohydrate diet for three months is associated with an average drop of 1.5–1.6% in HbA1c levels and a 7–8% reduction in body weight, whether or not glucose is tracked using continuous monitoring or fingerstick tests.

If you have type 2 diabetes and eat very few carbs (like less than a slice of bread per meal) while getting ongoing support from a doctor or coach, you might lower your blood sugar so much that you can stop taking diabetes meds—and for many people, that improvement lasts a year or even two.

If adults with type 2 diabetes lose 5% or more of their weight in 3 months using a low-carb app, they see better blood sugar control than those who lose less weight.

In adults with type 2 diabetes, switching to a very-low-carbohydrate diet lowers daily carbohydrate consumption from about 220–230 grams to 65–80 grams within three months, even without tracking food intake or calories.

People with type 2 diabetes who used the online low-carb program saw their blood sugar drop by about 0.6% and lost around 6 pounds on average.