Hi - recently I visited my doctors surgery after feeling quite run down. Blood tests were conducted and I was diagnosed 'pre-diabetic'. I was confused by this and kind of decided it must be a mistake. I am not over weight, although recently my weight has dropped. I am 13st 7lbs and 6ft 1in. I rarely eat junk or fatty food. I don't drink sugary beverages and have never enjoyed large quantities of sweet or processed food. although I do not belong to a gym, I go for a stiff walk almost religiously - day in day out. I live in Sheffield, so the steep hills cause me to get out of breath when I walk. I do drink - 3 pints of beer and about 1.5 bottles of wine per week. Too much? Never been a smoker.
I have changed my diet and drastically reduced the amount of bread i eat. Switched to salads with Quorn during the day. Despite all this, my blood sugar level registered '6' when I woke up this morning. Sunday afternoon, it was 5.6. How can it have gone up over night?
Where am I going wrong? Any advice is greatly appreciated. BTW - I am 52 with 3 kids. Would like to get this sorted for their sake!
Somebody already mentioned the TOFI situation, and this could be relevant in this case. Type-2 diabetes does have very much to do with genes, and people get prediabetic or diabetic,at very individuals levels of weight. Just look at the remarkable examples mentioned in this wikipedia article about the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFI . You can have too persons of the same gender,age,bmi and bodyfat, but one will have 5.86 litres of internal visceral fat, the other will have 1.65 litre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFI#/media/File:Coronal_Image_of_a_TOFI_and_a_Normal_Control.jpg Here is a picture of 8 people with the same waist circumference, the one with least internal bodyfat,have 0.5 litre, the one with the most. 4.5 llitre. A 4 kg difference in fat, with the same waistline!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFI#/..._in_men_with_the_same_waist_circumference.jpg
Here is an artice about the issue, together with a picture of two proffesors, they both have a bmi, of 22.3, the one on the left, of european background, has a bodyfatpercentage of 9.1 the one the right, of asian background has a bodyfat of 21.2 percent. Quite a staggering difference.
I also have two female relatives, both is morbidely obese, one is metabolically healthy, perfect sugars and cholesterol, the other a fullblown diabetic. But I also know somebody with a bmi far lower than yours with diabetes. For a example of somebody thin getting rid of their diabetes by losing weight, read this, a guardian journalist lost 10 kgs and it went away.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/may/12/type-2-diabetes-diet-cure
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...etes-just-11-days--going-starvation-diet.html
His personal website, he is still cured, 2 half years later.
http://www.reversingtype2diabetes.com/
Bottomline is this, lose some weight. Bmi is notoriously inaccurate as we have seen by now, best bet is to get your waist as slim as possible .
The hard part is weightloss. Here are some links you shold follow. dr Stephan Guyenet is a Phd in neurobiology, and studies how obesity works on the brain. He has a blog packed full with information on weightloss. It covers a lot of others things about food and health as well, but if you read through everything, you will know everything there is to know about obesity.
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.no/
Here is an article he has written about how to lose weight most effectively. It has detailed references is very short, but read this and you will know more than most gps about weightloss. The key takeaway here is that weight is controlled by the brain, in both directions, and that dietquality determines if this system goes haywire and obesity occurs.
https://www.dansplan.com/assets/Ideal_Weight_Program_Scientific_Rational.pdf
Also search up Jason Fung, he is a canadian doctor who uses fasting to treat diabetes type 2(in other words, get people to lose weight sustainably)
http://intensivedietarymanagement.com/.
Good luck, the risk of diabetes is determined by genes, but if you have a low personal fat threshold, you just have to work a little bit harder, goodluck!