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Hi, I'm new to this forum with a couple of questions, so please bear with! It might be a bit long.
54 year old female, BMI 26.0 so a bit overweight.
I had an Hbac1 of 41 in May 2015. When I was tested again in mid January this year, it had risen to 45, so I was told by my doctor I am prediabetic. With this most recent test it of course included Christmas where my eating pattern was much less healthy than my usual. In normal circumstances, I rarely eat chocolate or anything sweet, although I do like my (always wholegrain) carbs,which I eat a lot of, but it's really hard to avoid everything extra that's being offered to you at that time of year, canapés, party food, mince pies, alcohol etc and the endless Christmas work dinners. Could this have skewed my result in any way? If so, they are testing me again in 12 months, so should I avoid the Christmas period? Or should a "normal" person be able to handle all of that?
My surgery sent me a prediabetic "pack", in reality just a list of do's and don'ts. I had read up about this already, and was alarmed to be told I should have cereal, bread, potatoes, rice, grains, or pasta, with EVERY meal and to cut down on fat. Eat plenty of fruit.
Reading your excellent forum, and buying a low blood sugar diet book that's recently had a lot of attention in the press, I was shocked that the advice I'd been given was so clearly wrong. I KNEW from times in the past when I had lowered my carb intake, I'd had much more energy.
Anyway I decided I should get a handle on all of this and start understanding which foods I can and cannot eat, so taking the advice of many on here, I ordered the SD Codefree BG monitor. I'm very pleased with it, and it seems easy to use.
I've only been going a day, but wonder if it's working properly. Here are the results so far -
Pre-lunch yesterday - 6.0 lunch was salad at home (the usual lettuce, cucumber, onion, radish, tomato and peppers) with smoked salmon, ham, oil and vinegar dressing
One hour after 6.0
Two hours after 6.1
Before dinner 6.0 - dinner was home made turkey breast burgers (with ginger and spring onion) on a portobello mushroom with salad, avocado, and courgettes. Full fat Greek yogurt with a few raspberries and blueberries. Coffee with cream
Two hours after 6.3
Before bed 6.2
Fasting blood this morning 6.0.
I know I did eat quite low carb yesterday anyway - I wanted to get a baseline - but that seems to be a very narrow range of results.! I bought my own meter so have nothing to calibrate it against. If I go to my doctor, to get it checked he already told me I shouldn't test myself at all,so that won't go down well.
If these are normal readings and machine is ok I'll just start adding in some carbs and see what happens.
Any comments greatly appreciated.
54 year old female, BMI 26.0 so a bit overweight.
I had an Hbac1 of 41 in May 2015. When I was tested again in mid January this year, it had risen to 45, so I was told by my doctor I am prediabetic. With this most recent test it of course included Christmas where my eating pattern was much less healthy than my usual. In normal circumstances, I rarely eat chocolate or anything sweet, although I do like my (always wholegrain) carbs,which I eat a lot of, but it's really hard to avoid everything extra that's being offered to you at that time of year, canapés, party food, mince pies, alcohol etc and the endless Christmas work dinners. Could this have skewed my result in any way? If so, they are testing me again in 12 months, so should I avoid the Christmas period? Or should a "normal" person be able to handle all of that?
My surgery sent me a prediabetic "pack", in reality just a list of do's and don'ts. I had read up about this already, and was alarmed to be told I should have cereal, bread, potatoes, rice, grains, or pasta, with EVERY meal and to cut down on fat. Eat plenty of fruit.
Reading your excellent forum, and buying a low blood sugar diet book that's recently had a lot of attention in the press, I was shocked that the advice I'd been given was so clearly wrong. I KNEW from times in the past when I had lowered my carb intake, I'd had much more energy.
Anyway I decided I should get a handle on all of this and start understanding which foods I can and cannot eat, so taking the advice of many on here, I ordered the SD Codefree BG monitor. I'm very pleased with it, and it seems easy to use.
I've only been going a day, but wonder if it's working properly. Here are the results so far -
Pre-lunch yesterday - 6.0 lunch was salad at home (the usual lettuce, cucumber, onion, radish, tomato and peppers) with smoked salmon, ham, oil and vinegar dressing
One hour after 6.0
Two hours after 6.1
Before dinner 6.0 - dinner was home made turkey breast burgers (with ginger and spring onion) on a portobello mushroom with salad, avocado, and courgettes. Full fat Greek yogurt with a few raspberries and blueberries. Coffee with cream
Two hours after 6.3
Before bed 6.2
Fasting blood this morning 6.0.
I know I did eat quite low carb yesterday anyway - I wanted to get a baseline - but that seems to be a very narrow range of results.! I bought my own meter so have nothing to calibrate it against. If I go to my doctor, to get it checked he already told me I shouldn't test myself at all,so that won't go down well.
If these are normal readings and machine is ok I'll just start adding in some carbs and see what happens.
Any comments greatly appreciated.