There is a reason that your doctor is using the A1C reading. What ultimately matters (at least for type II who don't use insulin) is the average over a long period of time.
Using meters is great for learning about how your body handles food. But I also think that it is not that important for a type II who is not using insulin to continually monitor their levels.
When I was first diagnosed, I would check my blood right before I ate, right after I finished, and again after 30 mins and 1hour.
Eventually, I got a good sense for how thing affected me and finally stopped measuring. I now use my A1C measurements from the doctor to tell me if I need to make modifications. Typically, now I get more benefit from upping my exercise than from worrying about specific meal compositions.
That being said, someone who uses insulin needs to know how much insulin to use, so monitoring will always be part of their life. If you can get to the point where you don't have to think about it all the time, diabetes can be only a minor inconvenience.
