yeah, i am on that diabetic cusp, i mean, basically drowning in it now... i get tinnitis, low energy, muscle weakness, cramps, persistent infections... it's basically made it impossible for me to stop drinking but the only type of alcohol that is really ok anymore is dry red wine, spirits are just the ethanol mainly, which has some benefit, but the red grape skins have all kinds of chemicals that assist with sugar metabolism
and yeah, i have had to basically ditch all carbs more or less... no more potatoes at all... beer is out... i have been drinking milk but low fat milk is too much sugars still, though it is far less bad than any other form of simple sugar
i should also add that yohimbe has greatly helped with the cramps and muscle weakness... today i didn't have any as i usually do first thing in the morning and by midday my toes were going spaz again
also, my mother gets these cramps, she reports that if she drinks 2L of water a day she is ok but that's very high water intake if you are eating food with water in it IMO... seems that probably weak sugar metabolism is weak on both sides of my family, my father's bloodline comes through the austro/indonesian and as a kid he was harassed at school for looking like an aboriginal... really doesn't but i can assume that his mother's grandfather or something was a new guinea highlander and they did not eat any sugar or starches