Maxine in Canada
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- Relationship to Diabetes
I was told I was "prediabetic" a little over a year ago and told to have my HbA1c tested quarterly, nothing more. I went on line and found diabetes.co.uk, where I found a forum of folks using a variety of ways to improve blood glucose levels, including LCHF, which many found impressively lowered their HbA1c and kept it in the normal range. Since I had gone LC on a number of occasions in the past, mainly to lose weight, I looked into this further, found the many recipes, etc. I also purchased test strips (meter came for free), fortunately covered by the Blue Cross coverage from my husband's employment and started keeping track of how different foods affected me. The addition of the "high healthy fats" allowed me to be fairly strict on the carbs, and my weight (never really "over") fell 15 lb in the first 6 mo and now down 21 lb from "diagnosis" WITHOUT TRYING! Blood sugar levels responded only when I added the minimum of 10,000 steps a day recommended in the 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet. Diet-wise, what I've found is that I can tolerate small servings of whole grains without a spike, but larger servings, or white rice and the like will give me both a spike and increase the next mornings FBS level. To sum up, I (and most folks, I think, use LCHF as guidelines (and very helpful ones at that), not as an "extreme" diet, and certainly not inappropriate for pre and T2! p.s. Yesterday's "cheat" with a piece of (white-flour-based) bannock and a cup of supposedly "sugar-free" cappuchino reminded me that I still need to watch the carbs, even with all the energizing walking. p.p.s. I'll be 76 next month and have been in what's now considered the prediabetic range (over 5.5) as to FBS on most occasions tested for at least the past 20 years - but only in June of 2016 over 6.0 (6.1 both FBS and HbA1c); HbA1c in the 5's since then
