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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lupf" data-source="post: 2615542" data-attributes="member: 518059">Hi [USER=574289]@WaveyDavey123[/USER] welcome to the forum.let me add a few things to what others said.You are barely above threshold for diabetes, so the adjustment of your diet might already be sufficient, your blood glucose numbers below 6.0, when fasted, are perfect in my view. And by testing you can find which foods you can tolerate. The GP should do another HbA1c test in 3 months, which will confirm this.Regarding weight, I will tell you my story. I was an athlete in my teens and twenties, and never dieted, but weight crept up to the 90's. Unfortunately most diets are bound to fail in the long run. If you eat fewer calories, your metabolic rate (of burning calories) will slow down, so you will stop losing weight while feeling hungry. This will make you miserable and at some point you will give up.  Exercise has many benefits, but is inefficient for losing weight, i.e running an hour is easily offset by a snack afterwards. So what to do? Four years ago, I've decided to something as my doctor wanted to add more medicine (I was already taking Metformin).  I read the Blood sugar diet, a book my Michael Mosley, which suggested intermittent fasting.Thus I've went on a 5+2 diet, where on 2 days I fasted at 600 calories, i.e. no carby bood, just vegetables, salads, soups, an egg and a bit of chicken or fish. On other days I ate normally.  This worked, i.e. I never felt hungry an the pounds melted away. I lost 10+ kg and have been able to maintain it.  Importantly this also lowered my HbA1c into the  40s,  and I am now not taking any medication. In my view intermittent fasting works, as it is evolutionary trained, i.e. when our ancestors failed hunting mammoth, they ate less or starved and switched to fat burning.Regarding exercise: I am cycling a lot. if you have problems, have you considered an e-bike? It is great fun and while I still use the mountain bike as well, e-bikes are more gently to the body. As a bonus, my wife loves it too, so we can enjoy riding together.</blockquote>

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