Hi @dednaui welcome to the forum and as someone relatively new (register after diagnosis for T2D in September 2024) I am sure that you will find the forums a great place to get information as well as the main Diabetes site which provides some good information videos (I watched them which is novel as I prefer to read stuff).
Your HbA1c is lower than mine at diagnosis 92 then 86 following second test but at 63 I have a few months on you 🙂. I am/was at a much lower level (sudden bout of Covid has upset things) and using the other Blood Glucose measure I am hoping to be at 5.7% in the new year when I go for my follow up. However, still lots of time to get things wrong but for me the big change was moving to a low carb diet and upping my exercise a bit from a twice a week 5K to at least three and sometime four times a week. On top of that I have started to do some strength training to improve and grow my muscle mass which I believe is possible.
I can vouch for the edamame bean noodles and also the black bean ones recommended by @Leadinglights having tried both, although I do prefer the former slightly more. I also found that I don't need as much using about 50g/portion.
With regards to a continuous monitor, depending how friendly your diabetes nurse is they may be persuaded to let you have one of the samples that some surgeries have hanging around (that's how I got mine). Be warned though they are addictive and sometimes you can be a bit frustrated watching how it goes up more than it goes down. Finger pricking which I am now back to is slightly less stressful and meant that the pre- and two hours post meal tests were actually very positive in my case.
Your HbA1c is lower than mine at diagnosis 92 then 86 following second test but at 63 I have a few months on you 🙂. I am/was at a much lower level (sudden bout of Covid has upset things) and using the other Blood Glucose measure I am hoping to be at 5.7% in the new year when I go for my follow up. However, still lots of time to get things wrong but for me the big change was moving to a low carb diet and upping my exercise a bit from a twice a week 5K to at least three and sometime four times a week. On top of that I have started to do some strength training to improve and grow my muscle mass which I believe is possible.
I can vouch for the edamame bean noodles and also the black bean ones recommended by @Leadinglights having tried both, although I do prefer the former slightly more. I also found that I don't need as much using about 50g/portion.
With regards to a continuous monitor, depending how friendly your diabetes nurse is they may be persuaded to let you have one of the samples that some surgeries have hanging around (that's how I got mine). Be warned though they are addictive and sometimes you can be a bit frustrated watching how it goes up more than it goes down. Finger pricking which I am now back to is slightly less stressful and meant that the pre- and two hours post meal tests were actually very positive in my case.
