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I can't take too much milk any way, so giving up milk was easy enough. But no fruits at all? That's gonna be difficult. All these cutting away of food I'm used to sometimes make me worry whether I'm missing out on a certain bit of nutrition.

I'm only testing in the morning, before meals, and 2 hours after meals. Why is the 1-hour mark important? If at 2 hours, and the reading is still a bit high, I could already assume that the 1-hour reading would be higher, and I would be avoiding whatever I ate. If fasting levels are unreliable...

Since picking myself up from the floor after being diagnosed a prediabetic, I've cut out all white bread, rice, most grains (I still eat a slice of grain/seed bread maybe 2-3 times a week), noodles, and potatoes from my diet. I'm eating apples or berries only occasionally. Mornings is mostly...

I'm feeling the same way - being unsure of whether I'm doing it correctly. My wife thinks I'm worrying too much too. She believes the diet change (lots of veges now, no rice, no noodles, still a bit of whole grain bread) will help. But its difficult to discard that feeling of uncertainty.

Thanks for that. I need to get a grip, I know. I've never been this worried about my health before. I've been diagnosed with chronic prostatitis as well, and that's been adding to my stress. When I'm outside, it sometimes feel frustrating to feel like there's nothing I could eat at all.

Hi all, thought I'd register and post - been lurking around here for a while. I was diagnosed a pre-diabetic about 3 weeks ago. I had a fasting glucose level of 6.3 mmol/L and HbA1c at 5.8%. I'm assuming the ranges are country-dependent? Prediabetic range is 6.0 - 7.0 and 6% - 7%. My LDL and...