So the last time I checked my blood was in 2021 and the Hba1c was 35 mmol. Recently I was on holiday to India, two weeks ago and decided to do a full health checkup there. The hba1c came as 5.8/40 and the fasting blood sugar came to 6.1/110. The doc told me I am predibetic and should control my diet. I was shocked! I know why this has happened as I had a series of injuries in the last 4-5 months (hamstring/shoulder/lower abdomen) etc as part of my workout and was not training properly for past few months and Ofcourse was not watching my diet. Also since a week before the test I was eating a lot of bad carbs and sweets as part of the holiday plus a wedding there. I know it doesn’t affect hba1c too much but maybe the fasting.
My family (except mom) are all diabetic. Younger brother, all aunts and uncles on maternal side. Dad died of cancer about 35 years ago in his 40s but he wasn’t diabetic. So in reality, I am an eligible candidate for diabetes if I don’t take care of this.
Now, I started my low carb diet and I’ll check again in 3 months. also ordered my testing strips. I am pretty confident and determined to get it back to normal. I am otherwise a pretty active person - weight training plus kickboxing 6 days a week, but I am going to add a bit more walking in this routine.
But my question is why does UK NHS and this site says prediabetes is when the hba1c is between 42 mmol and 47 mmol whilst every other place in the world says 38 mmol? It doesn’t really matter as I know I need to take care of my blood sugar, but curious.
Also another question, lchf diet is highly used in this site, but nobody really talks about the total calories. Even on lchf diet if you don’t watch your calories, you’ll not loose weight/gain weight? Any thoughts on this too?
43 M(44 soon). 77kg/174cm. Lean muscular build.
Thank you.
My family (except mom) are all diabetic. Younger brother, all aunts and uncles on maternal side. Dad died of cancer about 35 years ago in his 40s but he wasn’t diabetic. So in reality, I am an eligible candidate for diabetes if I don’t take care of this.
Now, I started my low carb diet and I’ll check again in 3 months. also ordered my testing strips. I am pretty confident and determined to get it back to normal. I am otherwise a pretty active person - weight training plus kickboxing 6 days a week, but I am going to add a bit more walking in this routine.
But my question is why does UK NHS and this site says prediabetes is when the hba1c is between 42 mmol and 47 mmol whilst every other place in the world says 38 mmol? It doesn’t really matter as I know I need to take care of my blood sugar, but curious.
Also another question, lchf diet is highly used in this site, but nobody really talks about the total calories. Even on lchf diet if you don’t watch your calories, you’ll not loose weight/gain weight? Any thoughts on this too?
43 M(44 soon). 77kg/174cm. Lean muscular build.
Thank you.
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