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A1c 5.9, last reading (up from 5.3 due to the stress of cancer treatment). I eat fewer than 20 net carbs in any 2 hour period. I can stretch it to 25 most of the time by now - but mostly I don't. I target around 60 grams of protein, with the rest made up of fat. I believe I'm on the verge of...

Looks decent. My doctor cares about the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol. For women, 4.4 is an average risk; 3.3 is about half the average risk (according to Harvard). Yours was ~2.6, it is now ~2.8. Both are still less than half the average risk. But have a good conversation...

I hope it works for you! I'm down 74 lbs, but for me the change has nothing to do with losing weight. (Long complex story, but I have tracked the changes in carb tolerance and fasting blood glucose, going back and forth between LC and blood sugar diet, and switching between weight loss and...

Fasting is the most challenging - but I was lucky that mine was below 8 within 3 days. It took quite a bit longer to consistently stay under 5.5 for fasting.

Mine took 3 days - perhaps less. I just wasn't brave enough to test it before then.

For me, I counted both. I'm moving now to counting only carbs (since I've lost 74 lbs and have passed my target weight). I count calories for weight loss - and decided that as long as I had to watch every mouthful, I might as well lose the weight I'd intended to lose. But I got my diabetes...

74 lbs since a year ago yesterday (the day I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes and Hashimoto's thyroiditis . . . my cancer diagnosis came later in my disastrous 59th year). 60 last Monday, and feeling better than I have in a long time!

Did you have anything to drink with it? Alcohol can cause very low blood sugar. My response is immediate - but some have a delayed response (overnight - sometimes causing hypos in susceptible individuals). Currently, my blood glucose returns to the 80s within 2 hours from most things I eat -...

That's the standard medical and American Diabetic Association advice, and it's been keeping diabetics sick for decades.

For now, focus on tight control. If you're willing to carefully manage carbs, that can make dramatic differences very quickly - which makes it much easier to persist. I'm working on remission (the Newcastle/Blood Sugar diet approach). I'm pretty darn close. I have moved from diabetic to...

It's your choice, but personally - I would not ignore them. Spikes can damage internal organs - particularly if they happen nearly every meal.

Actually, non-diabetics rarely go above around 7.8, and most stay at 6.6 or below. I allow myself to go to 7.8 - but I only know that if I test at an hours (typically the peak).

I find that I need to measure on a meal by meal basis. My total carbs for the day are pretty much irrelevant - what matters is how much I eat at one time.

My blood glucose is the result of what I put in my mouth today, not the cumulative effect of what I've put in over the years. In other words, losing weight has zero impact on my A1c. Avoiding carbs on a daily basis has a huge and immediate impact. My blood glucose went from the diabetic range...

I assume you posted the poll - you might want to add a category for 6.0% or above to test your theory . . . I expect the bulk of people, even here, would be in that category. Certainly they would be above 6.0% in the "normal" diabetic population.

She is very food dependent - if she doesn't eat food that satisfies her within 30 minutes of her stomach time, she can't do anything but fixate on getting food. She, personally, tries to stay right at 7 - because the things she wants to eat would tend to put her above 7, and she already feels...

Yes - because the advice everyone is given is that the goal is either 7% or 6.5%, and the dietary advice they are given is geared toward above-normal blood glucose levels. My mother is quite happy with her 7% A1c, and would be very unhappy if they suggested she actually should strive for...

Hmm...I had the impression that there was some form of state sponsored health care in the UK - which is why I thought you might be from the US (where a lot of people still don't know access to health insurance was one of the main changes from the affordable care act. I've helped more people...

If you're in the US, all that changed with the affordable care act. You can't be turned down, or charged more, for pre-existing conditions. (Due to way too many, and way too costly ($60,000+/year, every year), health conditions in our family I keep a very close watch on this. :)

I'm still working on remission (you are in remission, by my definition). I've moved the needle a bit - an OGTT now puts me at prediabetic, and my BG has been consistently low enough this week (the peak, so far, after eating, is 6.1) that I'm hoping I have moved it a bit farther, although I'm...