Hi!
So last year during my physical my HbA1C was 5.9, my doctor said I was prediabetic and that I needed to limit sugar and high carbs. Last year I was eating basically anything carb, like bread, cereals, junk food, ect. I didn’t make a change until recently this April, I cut back on bread, cereal, pastries which last year I would eat almost everyday and instead added more vegetables and protein to my diet and limited those sugary sweets like ice cream, donuts drinks that seriously I would eat multiple times in a week. I also started to exercise more than I’m used too with jogging once or twice a week in comparison to little physical activity last year. Anyways, I just had a repeat of my HbA1C yesterday and the result was the same number 5.9!! I’m very disappointed in the result as these past few weeks I haven’t had any sweets that I would normally eat, no bread, no rice. My diet that I’ve recently started is lettuce, fish, chicken breast, omelette, cheeses. There is one thing that I’m guessing could have evened out my blood sugar is that I’ve been snacking with nuts throughout replacing the bread and pastries? Nut snacking I’m afraid could be keeping my blood levels high, otherwise I really feel other than that my diet has changed from eating whatever I wanted when I wanted last year until April. I’m feeling very unmotivated after receiving these results because I feel that my “eat anything when I want” had the same levels as starting this new diet of limiting those foods!! My doctor says it’s good in the sense that the levels have stayed stable but how can I lower this value? I’m afraid I will just relapse back tomorrow into eating whatever I want after learning that my changes did not even change my blood levels in the slightest... any tips or advice?
So last year during my physical my HbA1C was 5.9, my doctor said I was prediabetic and that I needed to limit sugar and high carbs. Last year I was eating basically anything carb, like bread, cereals, junk food, ect. I didn’t make a change until recently this April, I cut back on bread, cereal, pastries which last year I would eat almost everyday and instead added more vegetables and protein to my diet and limited those sugary sweets like ice cream, donuts drinks that seriously I would eat multiple times in a week. I also started to exercise more than I’m used too with jogging once or twice a week in comparison to little physical activity last year. Anyways, I just had a repeat of my HbA1C yesterday and the result was the same number 5.9!! I’m very disappointed in the result as these past few weeks I haven’t had any sweets that I would normally eat, no bread, no rice. My diet that I’ve recently started is lettuce, fish, chicken breast, omelette, cheeses. There is one thing that I’m guessing could have evened out my blood sugar is that I’ve been snacking with nuts throughout replacing the bread and pastries? Nut snacking I’m afraid could be keeping my blood levels high, otherwise I really feel other than that my diet has changed from eating whatever I wanted when I wanted last year until April. I’m feeling very unmotivated after receiving these results because I feel that my “eat anything when I want” had the same levels as starting this new diet of limiting those foods!! My doctor says it’s good in the sense that the levels have stayed stable but how can I lower this value? I’m afraid I will just relapse back tomorrow into eating whatever I want after learning that my changes did not even change my blood levels in the slightest... any tips or advice?
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