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I’m 35 now, I’ve had 2 GD pregnancies. I am waiting for a hba1c to confirm whether I’m prediabetic or not atm. But many of my morning fasting levels have been over 7mmol/l, which isn’t good. I’m determined to try to reverse it before it gets too bad. Thankfully I have my testing kit, so I test...

I am working on the basis of pairing my food, something I learned with GD. I don’t eat naked carbs, always try to pair them with something high in (good) fat &/protein. It worked really well when I was pregnant & hopefully does the same thing to get my numbers down now too! Good luck x

I didn’t manage to go for a walk because my daughter was napping, but thankfully it came down to 6.3, which is better! My after dinner reading was 5.9, with a well paired meal & a walk afterwards. I don’t know what I’d do if walking made my numbers go up! It was always my go-to with GD. Is...

I’ve got 40 minutes until it’s been 2hrs, I don’t think it’ll lower enough by then :( I’m so used to testing after an hour (for GD), I got ahead of myself & was expecting it to be below 7.8 after an hour

Really thought I’d cracked it this afternoon with my lunch. I had a chicken sandwich (using Burgen seeded bread, butter & full fat mayo), 1/4 melon, 1 low carb blondie & some full fat cream. 1hr later & im at 8.5mmol/l :( Idk if it was the melon, or if it was the blondie.. although the blondie...

I’ve had 2 GD pregnancies, both of which were well controlled with diet (although the second was much harder & I had to cut out a lot of carbs, the diabetic team didn’t believe that I had GD a second time, it was a whole thing!) My youngest is now almost 3yrs & my blood sugars have been...