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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HSSS" data-source="post: 2365394" data-attributes="member: 480869">Many of us were not warned about prediabetes sadly. 60g per meal is fairly mainstream advice and only just reaching into low carb territory. It’s enough for a few people but many find they do need to go significantly lower. Sometimes as low as 20g a day!  Trial and error is the only way you’ll know where you sit on that scale. Testing will tell you how you’re doing.  And that gets easier as you practice more. It’s not really that helpful trying to converter between fingerprick tests and hb1ac % as a regular thing. They are different tests measuring bloods differently so will only ever be a “ballpark” comparison. You need an awful lot of fingerpricks done at all points of the day catching the highs and lows to get an accurate equivalent.  Hb1ac effectively averages 3 months of glucose exposure. There’s lots of ways to get the same average too remember. Fingerpricks are a measure of right now, caused by the last couple of hours or even less perhaps.</blockquote>

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