Table sugar is sucrose + fructose. The “corn syrup” you refer to is commonly known as “high fructose corn syrup” and is metabolized only in the liver into fatty acids.> Human livers are capable of breaking down protein into ketones but human bodies cannot produce glucose from proteins or any other source. You have properly described the process of becoming a T1 diabetic and not a T2 diabetic. Insufficiency of insulin is a T1 diabetic. The arrival of insulin resistance defines the status of T2 diabetes.