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As my weight has now plateaued after losing about 18% of my body mass 1-2 years ago (probably plateaued due to the huge amounts of cheddar I was eating hmmmmmm), I've been doing some research on alternative diets and other factors associated with diabetes including, in particular, gut...

What's the success for folks with prediabetes in preventing progression to T2? I have terrible genetics - birth father diabetic at 35... cousins and other family diabetic. I'm 45, and have lost about 16kg in the last 2 years through a keto diet (only have carbs when cycling) and now have a...

Has anyone here used bitter melon? What results have you had? From what I've read this is like a low dose of metformin. I've just started this a couple of weeks ago and will soon apply an Abbot Sensor to see what the effects are.

Has anyone here gone on Metformin for impaired fasting glycaemia?

So I've just had my bloods redone and HB has come down from 43 to 41. I have lost 15kg in the last year and now exercise quite regularly, normally 180+ mins of intense exercise per week. I do keto quite strictly, except on days when I do bike rides, I just can't survive doing a 3 hr ride with...

Well I'm not going to lie. I've broken all the rules! Had loads of carbs... And sugar and bad stuff. But it's for a couple of weeks and I'll be back on keto in January, and have also started doing a 12 week cycle training program on Zwift.

So I've just got another couple of Libre's to try out and do a bit of experimenting with and have noticed a few quite interesting things so far. - Still having gels on cycles as I just can't do the full distance fasted - these do appear to have a significant effect on my BG levels. Need to find...

Hopefully this is the right forum... What happened to your HBA1Cs when you went on Keto? Did they drop to the low 30s fairly swiftly?

Hi all, Following from my previous thread... I've now had the Libre for 4 days and think I have spotted some interesting patterns. It seems that my blood sugar goes up in the mornings and then drops later in the day, but it only drops when eat. I normally miss breakfast, but if this pattern is...

I'm prediabetic with an HBA1C of 42 (despite losing 2 stone and exercising much more frequently). As a result I've bought a Freestyle Libre, hoping to monitor what is causing spikes. So far I've noticed that my cycles (60-70km of hilly road cycles) result in high blood sugar during the cycle. I...

When is the right time to measure blood sugars in the morning? Woke up today and BS was around 5.8 but then rose to 7 as I lazed in bed and then fell again and is now 6.1 Is the rise to 7 very problematic?

I've been pre-diabetic for 4 years now. In April, soon after Covd hit I weighed in at 92kg, BMI 28. Had my HBA1C which came out at 38.9MMOL. Since then I've been on a low card diet, been exercising regularly (70km cycles + running every week) and lost 13kgs, weighing in at 79kg now. I've just...