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Felinia
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Hello and welcome. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have. As you are prediabetic, all you probably need to do is make a few simple tweaks to your diet. That means reducing your carb intake and increasing your veggies and protein. It's not just sugars you need to be aware of, as carbs turn into blood glucose in the body. An app would help you record your daily food diary and measure your carbs for you. The suggested maximum is 130gm a day. Also if you are not active, doing some exercise would help. I go to aquafit 2/3 times a week, where we are all ladies of a certain age, and all shapes and sizes.
Thanks so much for the welcome and good advice. I'll google some apps which may help me keep on track.
Leadinglights
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A look at this link may give you some ideas. https://lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk/
Felinia
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Two popular apps are MyFitnessPal, a USA based free app, and NutraCheck, a UK based app with a free trial, membership offers and a small fee.
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Welcome to the forum @mizztery
Sorry to hear you’ve been told you are at increased risk of developing diabetes, but glad you have found us!
Were you told the result of your HbA1c? This will be a number between 42-47mmol/mol and can give you a sense of how close to the edge you may currently be cruising. The HbA1c measures changes in red blood cells to observe general glucose concentrations in the blood stream over the past 3-4 months.
Many new members find it can be really helpful to keep a brutally honest food diary for a week or two. Note down everything you eat and drink, along with a reasonable estimate of the total carbohydrate content in your meals and snacks - it doesn’t have to be gram-perfect, the nearest 5-10g is fine. It might sound like a bit of a faff, and will involve weighing portions, squinting at the fine print on packaging, and possibly looking up things on the internet, but it will give you a really good idea of which foods are the main sources of carbs in your menu. Once you can see which meals or snacks are your ‘big hitters’, and where carbs might be unexpectedly lurking, the diary might also suggest some likely candidates for swaps, portion reductions, or using lower carb alternatives (eg celeriac or swede mash, or cauli ‘rice’).
As others have said it’s likely that fairly modest changes to your diet will help to reduce your BG levels away from the diabetes zone - cutting out the obvious things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and sugary drinks will really help, but you might be surprised how much *all* carbohydrate affects your BG levels, including rice, pasta, potatoes, bread, pastry, grains, cereals and many fruits, so it can help to reduce portion sizes there too.
Good luck, and let us know how things go 🙂
Sorry to hear you’ve been told you are at increased risk of developing diabetes, but glad you have found us!
Were you told the result of your HbA1c? This will be a number between 42-47mmol/mol and can give you a sense of how close to the edge you may currently be cruising. The HbA1c measures changes in red blood cells to observe general glucose concentrations in the blood stream over the past 3-4 months.
Many new members find it can be really helpful to keep a brutally honest food diary for a week or two. Note down everything you eat and drink, along with a reasonable estimate of the total carbohydrate content in your meals and snacks - it doesn’t have to be gram-perfect, the nearest 5-10g is fine. It might sound like a bit of a faff, and will involve weighing portions, squinting at the fine print on packaging, and possibly looking up things on the internet, but it will give you a really good idea of which foods are the main sources of carbs in your menu. Once you can see which meals or snacks are your ‘big hitters’, and where carbs might be unexpectedly lurking, the diary might also suggest some likely candidates for swaps, portion reductions, or using lower carb alternatives (eg celeriac or swede mash, or cauli ‘rice’).
As others have said it’s likely that fairly modest changes to your diet will help to reduce your BG levels away from the diabetes zone - cutting out the obvious things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and sugary drinks will really help, but you might be surprised how much *all* carbohydrate affects your BG levels, including rice, pasta, potatoes, bread, pastry, grains, cereals and many fruits, so it can help to reduce portion sizes there too.
Good luck, and let us know how things go 🙂
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