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I've been hovering on the edge of prediabetes for almost 5 years and now it's finally happened.
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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 1601222" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>Your friend sounds like a useful person to know! Personally, and with all the usual qualifications about "this may well not apply to you," I would be slightly careful about the notion that being fit, slim and active with a level of 43 "isn't so bad" and no need to make any adjustments at all.</p><p></p><p>As I said in an earlier post, this is a pretty good number, but the A1C range you have seen in the past few years (between 5.7% and 6.1% in the "old" scale) does count as "pre-diabetic" here in the USA. My reading was 5.5% in 2009, then I did not have it tested again until 2017 (my fault, I was skipping the annual medicals because I thought I was invincible). I am thin, was quite physically active, and had been eating a supposedly healthy low-fat Mediterranean diet for decades. Here I am, eight years later, having been found firmly in the diabetic range (67, or 8.3%, at diagnosis early this year).</p><p></p><p>If you are at all concerned about the progression, you might want to consider some simple lifestyle adjustments (notwithstanding what your friend said about this not making a difference). The thing that stands out in your first post is the fruit. Perhaps you could reduce this somewhat? The carb level in some fruits is very high. Also possibly re-equilibrate your diet somewhat, reducing the non-fruit carbs a bit as well. Edited to add: if you are adding sugar to anything (such as tea or coffee) try to get used to consuming it unsweetened.</p><p></p><p>Hard to say, really. "Pre-diabetes" has always struck me as a tricky term. I see it more as a smooth spectrum, and right now you are in an ambiguous place in that spectrum. <em>Bon courage,</em> as they say in France!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 1601222, member: 438800"] Your friend sounds like a useful person to know! Personally, and with all the usual qualifications about "this may well not apply to you," I would be slightly careful about the notion that being fit, slim and active with a level of 43 "isn't so bad" and no need to make any adjustments at all. As I said in an earlier post, this is a pretty good number, but the A1C range you have seen in the past few years (between 5.7% and 6.1% in the "old" scale) does count as "pre-diabetic" here in the USA. My reading was 5.5% in 2009, then I did not have it tested again until 2017 (my fault, I was skipping the annual medicals because I thought I was invincible). I am thin, was quite physically active, and had been eating a supposedly healthy low-fat Mediterranean diet for decades. Here I am, eight years later, having been found firmly in the diabetic range (67, or 8.3%, at diagnosis early this year). If you are at all concerned about the progression, you might want to consider some simple lifestyle adjustments (notwithstanding what your friend said about this not making a difference). The thing that stands out in your first post is the fruit. Perhaps you could reduce this somewhat? The carb level in some fruits is very high. Also possibly re-equilibrate your diet somewhat, reducing the non-fruit carbs a bit as well. Edited to add: if you are adding sugar to anything (such as tea or coffee) try to get used to consuming it unsweetened. Hard to say, really. "Pre-diabetes" has always struck me as a tricky term. I see it more as a smooth spectrum, and right now you are in an ambiguous place in that spectrum. [I]Bon courage,[/I] as they say in France! [/QUOTE]
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