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I found little correlation between finger prick results and HbA1c. I tried testing several times at 3 a.m. to eliminate the dawn phoemenom. Most testing was between 7 and 7.30 a.m. after waking aned before eating or drinking anything. For months I saw no meaningful change, almost always between...

That's great progress. I don't advocate calorie counting as a strategy, it's inaccurate, people generally under count what they have consumed while over counting what they have expended. As I stated reducing any macronutrient is frequently accompanied by a reduction in calories.

Wow, that's a significant amount of weight to lose You were consuming more calories on a low carb diet than previously and still lost weight. Did you do a lot of exercise?

Did you lose weight as a result of a low carb diet? I think the evidence is that a diet that restricts any of the macronutrients is often accompanied by a reduction in calories.

Yes, I know that. But weight loss is still promoted as the most effective strategy to lower blood sugar. Besides which, there are multiple other health benefits to lowering weight, or rather body fat and in particular visceral fat in conjunction with increasing muscle mass.

I don't know how to lose weight without a calorie deficit and losing weight is the number one strategy for reducing blood sugar.

Did you reduce your weight to lower your blood sugar?

Whatever strategy you use you will have to reduce your calorie intake, although I don't advocate counting calories. A low carb diet will almost always decrease the calories you consume, in fact it's the same for any diet. Can you cut down on the refined carbs as a start, the cakes, pastries...

I had the results back from blood taken on 19th March, today is the 21st. Hba1C 42 down from 45 on 6th January Total cholesterol 5.7 down from 6.9 (June 2023) HDL-C 2 up from 1.4 LDL-C 3 down from 4.86 Triglycerides 1.6 up from 1.4 TC:HDL-C 2.8 was 4.9 TG:HDL 1.8 was 2.3 (I used the Blood...

My argument isn't about the value of a life, but whether or not treatment is always desirable, appropriate and necessary. I have almost no contact with the NHS in the UK, only because I have no need. In the rare instances I do I feel that I'm not treated as an individual, or holistically. Last...

Does everything need treating though? It's not uncommon for men to have prostate cancer that doesn't need treatment and they die from something unrelated. Is it possible to have elevated blood sugar and be prediabetic without developing T2D before death? It's not unknown to be prescribed drugs...

A link to another paper popped up in a feed I follow, very interesting conclusions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2551641/

I had a DEXA scan with Bodyscan UK in London. It was pretty expensive, but worth it as I value my health and well being.

My original post was really about how the focus is on losing weight and how that might not always be the best and most appropriate course of action. Losing fat and increasing muscle might be better co-existent objectives. My body fat % is in the range that's often labelled as athletic, and my...

Why is increasing weight through adding muscle problematic? If at the same time the % of body fat reduces then this has to be good doesn't it? It seems to me that changing body composition is much more important than pure weight loss. A greater % of muscle mass means better insulin sensitivity...

There seems to be little discussion of body composition and distribution. the focus seems to be primarily on losing weight, not reducing fat and gaining muscle. I know from a DEXA scan my body fat % and it's distribution. If I were to shed weight it's probably going to be more muscle than I'd...

In response to an article in The Times on undiagnosed diabetes Professor Tim Spector tweeted this "One million adults live with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes and about 5 million with pre diabetes and the U.K. has NO public health policy to deal with it and says our food advice is fine", When...

I now realise that fasting insulin amd fasting glucose are used to calculate insulin resistance, not the level of insulin. Thanks

I had a clamp test of my insulin as part of the trial I participated in. The trial has finished and my data should be available soon.

And thishttps://hub.jhu.edu/2021/02/09/prediabetes-diagnosis-less-useful-for-older-patients/ Older adults who are classified as having "prediabetes" due to moderately elevated measures of blood sugar usually don't go on to develop full-blown diabetes, according to a study led by researchers at...