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I was 35 when I diagnosed prediabetic and like you said, no symptoms and everything felt absolutely fine! The doctor that analysed the reading threw me a one-liner that was like a punch in the gut. I was stressed and depressed for weeks before I learned about reducing carbs and found this really...

Did they diagnose you based solely on that number? You might want to do another test to check your fasting blood sugar levels as well, just to know where you're at on the scale.

I don't think you're gonna get an answer. russth posted that in 2012 and his last login appears to be in 2014.

Well, just because it has a 20% margin of error doesn't mean that you just assume the reading is always 20% too high... it could be 20% too low as well. A single test doesn't tell you what's your meter's margin of error. It's a series of tests that will give you trend numbers. Plus, if you go...

The problem is I'm not overweight. In fact, reducing carbs is starting to put me underweight. I'm really at a loss as to how to adjust my diet to maintain body weight while still trying to hit those targets.

So several sites have listed 7.8 mmol/L and 6.6 mmol/L as the target post-meal 1-hour and 2-hour BG targets. How are we supposed to look at them? o_O Is it "as long as I'm below those thresholds, I'm good"? Or is it "I'm going to get as much below those thresholds as I can go"? I assumed it...

That's the conventional approach, but that's not necessarily the best approach for everyone, so it's not automatically a "recipe for lowering BG".

Hang in there. I'm in the same boat as you, but I'm just trying to maintain my weight. I'm almost 4 months in too. It's a struggle sometimes to keep my mood up. From what I know, this isn't going to go away in just a few months, so plan for longer term - find and keep what you like about the...

Since I don't drink milk (have never really been drinking milk), and I like almond milk, your numbers got me interested. I'm wondering about where you got those numbers. What cheese are you comparing it to? Your numbers don't seem to match up with what Google came up with. For example: if you...

I'm not on metformin. I would say the more typical way to test is to take a reading before you start eating, then about 2 hours later. It's usually 2 hours after starting the meal, though some do it after completing the meal. You can also test at the 1-hour interval, to get a reading closer to...

Is there such a thing as too much cheese? I usually eat those cheese slices or cheese sticks, since I don't know much about other kinds of cheese.

Hmmm... I'm just finding it difficult to reach the same levels of calories as before, without the rice and bread. The portion is fine, but it's the quality of calories as you said Kristin. I'm 6 feet and weigh about 78kg, so I figure I need around 2000 calories or so on light exercise? For...

Does a low-carb diet imply the need to eat more food? We've reduced carbs, so we need to increase fats. But there's only so much sources of non-animal fat I can think of... yogurt, nuts, olive oil... there's only so much bacon one should consume in a day. Is anyone else finding themselves eating...

I seem to wake up after 4 or 5 hours of sleep maybe four nights a week. I actively try to stop fluids 2-3 hours before sleep, thinking it's urine-related, but I don't feel a particularly strong urge to urinate. But if I do get up to go, then sometimes I find myself not being able to fall asleep...

I just came back from a series of test to check my heart palpitations. The doctor didn't see anything obvious that could directly cause palpitations, so the implication seems to be that it's more related to my diet change (been a month since I started moderate low-carb) and bodily adjustments...