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Last week I discovered that my pre-diabetes has now gone over the levels into diabetes. I thought ok, I can lose lots of weight and control this.
Since then I’ve been testing at different times and it’s totally confusing. I’m eating low carb but the levels are muddled. Also I’m in Germany, so my meter shows mg/dL which I then ‘translate’ because I only know mmol/L from my mother’s few years of diabetes. It makes more sense to me that way.
Usually when I’ve wanted to lose weight, I’ve eaten a fruit salad (apple, orange and banana) with cottage cheese and walnuts for lunch. That doesn’t seem like a good idea now.
Last HbA1c was 7, but I really don’t know what I should be looking at. This morning my fasting level was 127 (7). I don’t eat breakfast except at weekends as I’ve had fairly extreme IBS for some years and found it worked to give my digestion a good rest. I thought yesterday that my levels after a 2 hour walk would be low, but they were 128 (7.1). I’ve cut out potatoes, pasta, rice, and only had 1 slice of homemade seed bread (mixed flours) with breakfast at the weekend. I make my own semi skimmed lactose free yoghurt, which strained is like a Greek yoghurts.
I haven’t been offered any advice here. Maybe I should chase up my doctor.
Since then I’ve been testing at different times and it’s totally confusing. I’m eating low carb but the levels are muddled. Also I’m in Germany, so my meter shows mg/dL which I then ‘translate’ because I only know mmol/L from my mother’s few years of diabetes. It makes more sense to me that way.
Usually when I’ve wanted to lose weight, I’ve eaten a fruit salad (apple, orange and banana) with cottage cheese and walnuts for lunch. That doesn’t seem like a good idea now.
Last HbA1c was 7, but I really don’t know what I should be looking at. This morning my fasting level was 127 (7). I don’t eat breakfast except at weekends as I’ve had fairly extreme IBS for some years and found it worked to give my digestion a good rest. I thought yesterday that my levels after a 2 hour walk would be low, but they were 128 (7.1). I’ve cut out potatoes, pasta, rice, and only had 1 slice of homemade seed bread (mixed flours) with breakfast at the weekend. I make my own semi skimmed lactose free yoghurt, which strained is like a Greek yoghurts.
I haven’t been offered any advice here. Maybe I should chase up my doctor.