Am I actually diabetic

You definitely have diabetic tendencies, but it may be that you can tolerate more carbs now since you gave your system a break by laying off of the sugary drinks. I know for me, I used to drink 3 or 4 cokes a day, and ate very high carb. After diagnosis, I cut out the cokes and cut way back on carbs. I've been able to add back some carbs to some degree. Still staying away from the sugary cokes.

bulkbiker said:

That's great but if your pre meal reading was 4 then that's bad if it was 6 then that's maybe ok .. without the pre meal you can't really see.

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A post meal reading of 7.1 falls well within the non diabetic range in every book. No matter what your own goals are, you can't say it's a 'bad' reading. It's misleading and can lead to people thinking a 7.1 is 'bad'. It isn't.

Antje77 said:

A post meal reading of 7.1 falls well within the non diabetic range in every book. No matter what your own goals are, you can't say it's a 'bad' reading. It's misleading and can lead to people thinking a 7.1 is 'bad'. It isn't.

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A 3.1 mmol/l rise in BG cannot surely be seen as "good" in a T2 though?
The meal certainly would not be considered as beneficial by most T2's here I'm sure.
And you're quite right I'd be shocked were it my reading.