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Welcome to the forum @Marian
Sorry to hear that your blood glucose levels are a little elevated. Interesting to hear how different HCPs express the same situation - many new members arrive having been told they are ‘prediabetic‘, while you had ’borderline sugar’
It amounts to the same thing really... your results show that you are at increased risk of developing diabetes. The trick is to make some changes to the way you are living so that your metabolism and your body are better able to cope.
An HbA1c of 48 would generally be seen as sufficient for a diagnosis of diabetes, so while your BG is a little elevated, it sounds like you have every change of avoiding a full diagnosis of T2.
While there are obvious things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and sugary drinks that you will be wanting to cut out straight away, you might be surprised how much *all* carbohydrate affects your BG levels, including rice, pasta, bread, pastry, grains, cereals and many fruits.
One suggestion that often helps new members is to keep a brutally honest food diary for a week or two, including counts and estimates of the amount of total carbohydrate (not just ‘of which sugars’) in your meals and snacks.
This has the benefit of beginning to educate you as to where the most significant BG-raising parts of your menu are found, and can also suggest some ‘easy wins’ when it comes to moderating your carb intake.
Feel free to share an average day’s food/snacks if you’d like some suggestions of swaps and tweaks from members here 🙂
Sorry to hear that your blood glucose levels are a little elevated. Interesting to hear how different HCPs express the same situation - many new members arrive having been told they are ‘prediabetic‘, while you had ’borderline sugar’
It amounts to the same thing really... your results show that you are at increased risk of developing diabetes. The trick is to make some changes to the way you are living so that your metabolism and your body are better able to cope.
An HbA1c of 48 would generally be seen as sufficient for a diagnosis of diabetes, so while your BG is a little elevated, it sounds like you have every change of avoiding a full diagnosis of T2.
While there are obvious things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and sugary drinks that you will be wanting to cut out straight away, you might be surprised how much *all* carbohydrate affects your BG levels, including rice, pasta, bread, pastry, grains, cereals and many fruits.
One suggestion that often helps new members is to keep a brutally honest food diary for a week or two, including counts and estimates of the amount of total carbohydrate (not just ‘of which sugars’) in your meals and snacks.
This has the benefit of beginning to educate you as to where the most significant BG-raising parts of your menu are found, and can also suggest some ‘easy wins’ when it comes to moderating your carb intake.
Feel free to share an average day’s food/snacks if you’d like some suggestions of swaps and tweaks from members here 🙂
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Toucan
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Hello @Marian and welcome to the forum.
It's good that your doctor has given you a 'warning' flag. This is not a one-way street though, and if you act now you can give yourself a great chance of a future free of diabetes.
It should help if you, cut back on sweet things, reduce your starchy carb intake, eat more leafy and low carb veggies, and opt for berries rather than high carb fruit. Also if you can increase your levels of activity that will also help, and you will do great. - and when the doctor re-tests next year the news on sugar levels should be good.
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www.diabetes.org.uk
It's good that your doctor has given you a 'warning' flag. This is not a one-way street though, and if you act now you can give yourself a great chance of a future free of diabetes.
It should help if you, cut back on sweet things, reduce your starchy carb intake, eat more leafy and low carb veggies, and opt for berries rather than high carb fruit. Also if you can increase your levels of activity that will also help, and you will do great. - and when the doctor re-tests next year the news on sugar levels should be good.
There is more information on
Prediabetes symptoms and risk reduction
What is prediabetes? Prediabetes means that your blood sugars are higher than usual, but not high enough for you to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It also means that you are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. You are unlikely to be experiencing any symptoms with prediabetes...
Squirrel768
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Welcome, Marian, and hope you can get to grips with the diet and get back into 'normal' life again 🙂
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Type 2 Diabetes: The First Year by Gretchen Becker is frequently recommended to new members
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