Hi, welcome to the forum. I'm not pre-diabetic (but I do have an HbA1c of 42, down from a high of 82), but hopefully someone will reply who is.
In the meantime, there's information on the
main Diabetes UK site about pre-diabetes and
information about reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes which may be of interest.
The main thing I did was to lose weight, and being on a restricted calorie diet also meant I wasn't eating the dreadful diet I had before, which also helped with my blood glucose levels/HbA1c.
The reason why I settled on weight loss was because I read a book by Professor Roy Taylor "life without diabetes" and read about
research that was paid for by Diabetes UK on weight loss and type 2 diabetes, and it pursuaded me it was the way to go. His book (page 188) says about pre-diabetes: "By losing approximately 10kg or 10% of your weight if you are less than 80kg, you will almost certainly take yourself out of this category and transform your chances of remaining healthy long term".
Hopefully the management programme you're awaiting will give you some other ideas too. Lower carb may be the way to go, but you don't have to do anything drastic, maybe have half portions of the carby bit of your meals, and add more vegetables to make up the difference?
Best wishes, Sarah
PS low carb is defined as less than 130g of carbs a day
