Recent Content by CW84

I know hba1c isn't a measure of ketosis. At no point have I said it was and I'm not sure why everyone is getting focused on talking about ketosis. Maybe I wasn't clear enough. To make it really basic: I am surprised my hba1c has gone up so much with such a small increase in carbs, especially...

Sounds likely. What I'm struggling to understand is why my hba1c has gone up so much despite eating very low carb. I didn't think it would be necessary to actually be continuously in ketosis in order to not be prediabetic. I had wondered if being in ketosis for years can cause the body to be...

As I said, my hba1c has gone up from 5.1% to 5.7% since I started exercising, so the only difference I am seeing in blood sugar isn't good. I am not trying to put run a poor diet. As I said in my post, my diet is low carb. At under 50g carbs a day, it is considered keto.

I started a keto lifestyle 3 years ago, initially to lose weight but kept it up as I experienced such drastic health benefits. So many niggling problems I had experienced for years, disappeared. I do not know what my hba1c was before I started, as it hadn't been tested, but I think I must have...