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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melgar" data-source="post: 2743793" data-attributes="member: 520626"><p>Sometimes [USER=90244]@Gardengnome[/USER] you can do everything right and still it bites you. In all honesty I think as we get older our pancreas’ are not as efficient at clearing out the blood sugar as they once were. Plus as we get older we lose muscle mass too. Muscles utilize a lot of blood glucose so that may impact your blood sugars. 47 is not a big number and you are still, technically, in the Prediabetes range. As you say life is too short to eat carrot sticks ! Diabetes affects us over time. It takes many years for high blood sugars to start really impacting our vascular system. If you wanted you could cut down on your carbs a bit. At 47 it would not take much to bring them down a tad, or do some light exercises with weights  that will help tone up your muscles. I have an older friend, she is 97 and she uses weights, just the small light weights. Just to keep herself toned up. She also does a lot of walking. Every bit helps. If you want we do have a lovely low carb recipe section. Members post photos of their meals, so you don’t have to eat carrot sticks to bring your blood sugars down a tad.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

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