Hi. Give it time for the blood glucose to come down further. 6-9mmol/L is good but indicates that you likely still have quite high blood insulin concentrations. Or at least fairly persistently above baseline more often than is optimal for you.
You’ll find it very difficult to lose weight in the presence of insulin. Focus on the blood glucose. Always remember that weight/obesity, just like diabetes, is another
symptom of hyperinsulinemia. It’s not the cause. Obesity and diabetes are two sides of the same coin. The hand and the glove, if you will. The beer and the glass.
Focus on reducing insulin levels and the rest will follow. To quote the movie Field of Dreams - “build it and he will come”. Start at the beginning. The question isn’t “will this make me fat?”, it’s “will this require insulin?”. Obviously I speak only as a type 2, but when it comes to insulin, and energy distribution & mobilisation, this is pretty much a universal truth. To all intents and purposes you cannot meaningfully oxidise stored energy while you have insulin (from any source) sloshing around trying to mop up glucose. Insulin is trying to
store the glucose energy as
more fat in order to keep it in quarantine.
Stick with it. Perhaps add in some fasting to get the numbers more reliably into the 5~ region more of the time. Concentrate on metabolic health, not the scales. In the fullness of time your blood glucose concentration will be low enough to give insulin a rest and let your body start burning up all that glucose that it’s been storing as fat for years trying to protect itself from the rising toxicity of hyperglycaemia. Additionally, as the fat burns away, you give the fat cells more breathing space in which to store
more unwanted glucose, clearing yet more out of it out of the blood and organs, and thus
increasing your insulin sensitivity. It’s a virtuous circle.
My goodness what a wonderful machine we spend our humble existence in. It’s actually a privilege to witness and try to understand. Atomic machines pondering the atmos they’re made of. Collaborating with other atomic machines in order to survive and prosper.
Sorry for rambling - got a bit carried away with the hippy stuff there