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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 1616373" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>I don't know for sure what your HbA1c was at the time of diagnosis. But the first reading you provided in your first post is 6.2%. In America, that is not diabetes, but "pre-diabetes." It means that there is a risk that you will develop diabetes, if you do not change your lifestyle and especially your diet. In America, actual "diabetes" starts with an HbA1c of 6.5% or higher.</p><p></p><p>The advice often given to those with "pre-diabetes" like you is to try to get their HbA1c down to the "normal" range, and that means, 5.6% or below (here in America). Some of the time in the past two years, you have been close to achieving this goal. Well done!</p><p></p><p>If you can make diet changes so that your HbA1c stays in the "normal" range on a long-term basis, you will have "reversed" the progression of the disease. To make sure you stay in that "normal" range you will probably have to be careful about your diet for the rest of your life.</p><p></p><p>This is not exactly a "diabetic-free" life because you do have to be careful what you eat, while other people around you are eating lots of carbs and apparently not getting sick! But if you can avoid "progressing" to actual diabetes, you should be in good health. This is a good moment to work on that!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 1616373, member: 438800"] I don't know for sure what your HbA1c was at the time of diagnosis. But the first reading you provided in your first post is 6.2%. In America, that is not diabetes, but "pre-diabetes." It means that there is a risk that you will develop diabetes, if you do not change your lifestyle and especially your diet. In America, actual "diabetes" starts with an HbA1c of 6.5% or higher. The advice often given to those with "pre-diabetes" like you is to try to get their HbA1c down to the "normal" range, and that means, 5.6% or below (here in America). Some of the time in the past two years, you have been close to achieving this goal. Well done! If you can make diet changes so that your HbA1c stays in the "normal" range on a long-term basis, you will have "reversed" the progression of the disease. To make sure you stay in that "normal" range you will probably have to be careful about your diet for the rest of your life. This is not exactly a "diabetic-free" life because you do have to be careful what you eat, while other people around you are eating lots of carbs and apparently not getting sick! But if you can avoid "progressing" to actual diabetes, you should be in good health. This is a good moment to work on that! [/QUOTE]
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