As a newly diagnosed Type 2, but not overweight, I take metformin and have a carefully altered my diet to slow down my digestion and have few easily digestible carbs (i.e. such as the whites, flour, sugar, potatoes and rice). But it takes 3 months to see if my A1C goes down (a measure of the past 3 months of blood sugar), so I won't know for a couple more months. Going keto to me seems like using a shotgun to kill a fly on your foot, it is too hard to keep up with, and causes other issues, while simply understanding how carbs affect your blood sugar is much easier to do.
Part of the problem is that all the tables of carbs assume you are only eating the one thing (which is how they make the tables), but the actual affect on blood sugar spikes is the sum of what you ate. For example, eating a boiled potato by itself will spike a Type 2 steeply, but eating it with lots of butter will not.
I prefer to understand my health issues by reading a wide variety of information from people who specialize in them, not just read one guy's opinion.
Part of the problem is that all the tables of carbs assume you are only eating the one thing (which is how they make the tables), but the actual affect on blood sugar spikes is the sum of what you ate. For example, eating a boiled potato by itself will spike a Type 2 steeply, but eating it with lots of butter will not.
I prefer to understand my health issues by reading a wide variety of information from people who specialize in them, not just read one guy's opinion.