Until very recently I found that despite best efforts at low carb, and with metformin, I tend to maintain, or sometimes slowly gain weight. For a couple of years I have had HbA1c in pre-diabetic range. This was after several years in non-diabetes range. A shock last year was HbA1c of 51. My solution was to reduce calorie intake as well as keeping to less than 60 g of carbs a day, plus some fasting. Carbs come mainly from vegetables. Last month HbA1c was 41.
At one stage I was training up to 3 hours a day with my sport, so I find this easy. I could bring this down to nothing in the morning, eat then 10 - 15 minute walk (perhaps 5 of this brisk), 12 mins resistance and repeat.
It might seem alot but it really is quite small. Serious gym goers workout for about 45 minutes minimum, as I have a good baseline I am compressing a moderate resistance workout into a shorter time to get some cardio and difficulty benefits. Tonight I am going to do the finisher again, to see if I can turn the 4.3 fbg this morning into a 3.8, like I did a couple of days ago. The finisher is 2 exercises to almost failure - less than a minutes work (bicep curls and deadlifts using X3 Bar).
Was that the official conclusion or yours? I assumed IR would have both higher bg and higher insulin (attempting to overcome the resistance) whereas a lower insulin level suggests more towards LADA or type 1 perhaps.
No, but it might be the early stages of LADA. It could be interesting now, several years later to re do it if that’s possible for a comparison.
), whereas LADAs are slow onset T1s who gradually (possibly over years) get their beta cells all destroyed. But I agree, not quite sure how you tell whether reduced insulin production is a result from long term T2 or a result of LADA. Do antibodies still get produced after ten years???
