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DickNorthcote

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One piece of advice is to have potatoes, wholemeal rice, bread and pasta as around 1/3 of your plate. Another says to cut right back on carbs and have full-fat dairy? What's the best for pre-diabetics like me?
 
Reduction in carb intake will help prediabetics reduce blood glucose levels as well as T2 diabetics, I have no experience of T1 so cannot comment. There are many T2/prediabetics on this forum who have reduced their blood glucose levels sufficiently to no longer be classified as T2 or prediabetic.

Have a look a @bulkbiker for an example.
 
DickNorthcote said:
One piece of advice is to have potatoes, wholemeal rice, bread and pasta as around 1/3 of your plate. Another says to cut right back on carbs and have full-fat dairy? What's the best for pre-diabetics like me?
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Although you'd be hard pressed to find it written anywhere.. the "Eatwell Guide" dietary advice has now been stated to be for the metabolically healthy for the most part and not suitable for those with Pre and T2 diabetes.
Unfortunately most of the medical profession haven't yet caught up with this.
Cutting carb consumption along with some intermittent fasting proved for me to be a highly effectve therapy for reducing blood sugar levels and keeping them low for the past 3 years.
 
If you are not convinced that eating carbs increases blood sugar, get a meter and test an hour after eating high and low carb meals to see the difference.
 
DickNorthcote said:
One piece of advice is to have potatoes, wholemeal rice, bread and pasta as around 1/3 of your plate. Another says to cut right back on carbs and have full-fat dairy? What's the best for pre-diabetics like me?
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Since the former advice was put out in one form or another about 40 yrs ago diabetes and obesity has skyrocketed.
Almost all type 2 in here (who were all prediabetic at one stage whether known about or not) find low carb to some greater or lesser degree the way to go.
 
I had been diagnosed as prediabetic and so I read everything about best diet etc. I followed a low carb diet and used the recipes in the books and newspapers for people wanting to reduce their weight and reducing blood sugar levels. I decided against the 800 calorie diet as I was only a little overweight. I knew I had around 6 weeks before my next blood test. After this 6 weeks I had lost 10 lbs which brought my bmi to normal range, my blood pressure was absolutely normal and my blood sugar also within normal range. All good, except for the fact that my cholesterol has increased prompting my doctor to call me to the surgery. I am gutted as I thought everything was going so well. So now I am back on a low fat, low carb, low sugar diet. Awaiting my appt with the gap next week to find out the damage.
 
SusieBrown65 said:
I had been diagnosed as prediabetic and so I read everything about best diet etc. I followed a low carb diet and used the recipes in the books and newspapers for people wanting to reduce their weight and reducing blood sugar levels. I decided against the 800 calorie diet as I was only a little overweight. I knew I had around 6 weeks before my next blood test. After this 6 weeks I had lost 10 lbs which brought my bmi to normal range, my blood pressure was absolutely normal and my blood sugar also within normal range. All good, except for the fact that my cholesterol has increased prompting my doctor to call me to the surgery. I am gutted as I thought everything was going so well. So now I am back on a low fat, low carb, low sugar diet. Awaiting my appt with the gap next week to find out the damage.
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Losing weight temporarily raises cholesterol as the lipids from the body leave via the blood! Take a read of the thread cholesterol and statins by @bulkbiker before your appointment and go to it knowledgeable about levels ratios and just what they do and don’t do.
 
DickNorthcote said:
One piece of advice is to have potatoes, wholemeal rice, bread and pasta as around 1/3 of your plate. Another says to cut right back on carbs and have full-fat dairy? What's the best for pre-diabetics like me?
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Advice varies wildly, which makes it hard to figure out what actually does work. A meter would help guide you, so I would advise you to get one, but bottom line: Carbs are the devil's food. ;) For me, if someone'd bothered to tell me if was pre-diabetic, I could've sussed out sooner what the problem was... I was obese, and followed the "lots of good carbs, no fat" advice from my dieticians. That got me into the morbidly obese zone and made me a T2 diabetic. So... Cut the carbs, avoid T2. It really is that simple. If you're prediabetic that means you're prone to get the condition (Yay for genetics! Not...). By going low carb/high fat you'd could possibly dodge the bullet entirely.
Good luck!
Jo, who's back into the non-diabetic numbers and has been for years now thanks to low carbing. ;)
 
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