Hi, I've been newly diagnosed as prediabetic (HbA1c of 45) a month ago, the news was given by telephone, with no advice apart from the usual lose weight (my BMI is 26.0) take more exercise and eat carbs with every meal. Don't bother with testing yourself, we'll do it again in a year.
Thanks to this fantastic forum I've realised where I was going wrong, I've never had a sweet tooth but love my bread, rice, pasta, etc. I bought a meter and have been following a low carb high fat diet and have lost 11 pounds from my stomach area in the last 4 weeks which I'm delighted with. I haven't found it difficult at all and I'm never hungry, no carb cravings.
I have a few questions.......So the weight loss is great but getting my BG out of the prediabetic range has been trickier. Reading a lot of the posts on the forum, many people get non-diabetic BG results fairly quickly. Most of my fasting BGs in the last month have been between 6 and 6.5. I only had one morning in 4 weeks at 5.8 since then it's back in the 6's. How long did it take people to see fasting BG's in the non-diabetic range? Am I being too impatient?
I work out the carbs, protein, and fat content of every meal using myfitnesspal and weigh everything I eat so I can see exactly which foods affect my BG. Most days I've been under 50g of carbs, a couple over but always under 80g, with my diet being around 60% fat, 15% carbs, and 25% protein. Last night my main meal was quite protein and fat heavy, but very light on carbs. (ham and cheese salad with mayonnaise) BG dropped a bit at 1 hr, by 2 hours BG had gone up and was still the same at 3 hours. Under 7.8, so I know that's within range, but why didn't it come down? Was it the protein content of the meal that delayed the spike? I know you have to avoid high protein, but how do you plan a menu that doesn't contain many carbs without adding much protein? For breakfast I had half a toasted lidl high protein roll with butter, a poached egg and a grilled tomato, lunch was tuna (in oil) and avocado salad with mayo.
Even eating strictly to the plan - no cheating - I only occasionally get a BG in the 5's, mostly they are 6's before eating and 7's after 2 hours.
So do I hope that when I've lost a few more pounds (4 more to get a healthy BMI) my lower BG readings will follow automatically? Or should I try to go even lower carb? I've upped the exercise from before, too. I've looked at the menus that people have posted and if they are low carb, they seem to be high protein. Not sure what to do next.
Thanks to this fantastic forum I've realised where I was going wrong, I've never had a sweet tooth but love my bread, rice, pasta, etc. I bought a meter and have been following a low carb high fat diet and have lost 11 pounds from my stomach area in the last 4 weeks which I'm delighted with. I haven't found it difficult at all and I'm never hungry, no carb cravings.
I have a few questions.......So the weight loss is great but getting my BG out of the prediabetic range has been trickier. Reading a lot of the posts on the forum, many people get non-diabetic BG results fairly quickly. Most of my fasting BGs in the last month have been between 6 and 6.5. I only had one morning in 4 weeks at 5.8 since then it's back in the 6's. How long did it take people to see fasting BG's in the non-diabetic range? Am I being too impatient?
I work out the carbs, protein, and fat content of every meal using myfitnesspal and weigh everything I eat so I can see exactly which foods affect my BG. Most days I've been under 50g of carbs, a couple over but always under 80g, with my diet being around 60% fat, 15% carbs, and 25% protein. Last night my main meal was quite protein and fat heavy, but very light on carbs. (ham and cheese salad with mayonnaise) BG dropped a bit at 1 hr, by 2 hours BG had gone up and was still the same at 3 hours. Under 7.8, so I know that's within range, but why didn't it come down? Was it the protein content of the meal that delayed the spike? I know you have to avoid high protein, but how do you plan a menu that doesn't contain many carbs without adding much protein? For breakfast I had half a toasted lidl high protein roll with butter, a poached egg and a grilled tomato, lunch was tuna (in oil) and avocado salad with mayo.
Even eating strictly to the plan - no cheating - I only occasionally get a BG in the 5's, mostly they are 6's before eating and 7's after 2 hours.
So do I hope that when I've lost a few more pounds (4 more to get a healthy BMI) my lower BG readings will follow automatically? Or should I try to go even lower carb? I've upped the exercise from before, too. I've looked at the menus that people have posted and if they are low carb, they seem to be high protein. Not sure what to do next.
