Hi, just come back with pre-diabetic count of 42. Not got it yet but being monitored my question is as I'm 5ft 8, bmi 21.5, weight is 10 stone 3, go to gym x3 times a week and a sports coach with 20,000 steps everyday. No history of diabetes with me or family and not BAME. So unusual to get high count, and don't smoke and less than 14 units of alcohol a week. Anyone been in this situation? If so what's the amount of carbohydrates a day on average is safe to consume or get the blood sugar levels down?
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Welcome to the forum.
You really are just at the bottom end of the prediabetes zone so some very modest changes to your diet should be sufficient.
Things like cakes, biscuits and sugary drinks including fruit juice are the first things to cut out if you have those regularly or keep them as treats. The other foods to be careful of and maybe reduce portions are bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, breakfast cereals which are all big hitters when it comes to carbs.
A good plan is to keep a food diary of everything you eat and drink and estimate how many carbs not just sugar you are having and then reduce them by about a third and that may well be sufficient to bring your Hba1C down.
IF one is diagnosed as Type 2 diabetic the the suggested amount of carbs is no more than 130g per day.
It is important to make dietary changes which are sustainable as diabetes management is not a quick fix as if people revert to their previous diet then they can easily undo all the hard work.
The Learning Zone has good info for managing the condition and some links for various menu plans.
This may also be useful for some do's and don'ts https://lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk/
If you are reducing carbs then if you don't want/need to lose weight then you need to make sure you have enough protein and healthy fats.
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some people use Nutracheck or myfitnesspal. I think they are free. Don't use myself.
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Welcome to the forum @andy1211
Was your HbA1c checked as part of a routine healthcare appointment (eg an over 50s check)?
Diabetes does love to throw some curveballs, bit yours is certainly an atypical presentation.
It may be that you are particularly sensitive to carbohydrate, it may be that your body is predisposed to storing visceral fat around organs early on (so-called TOFI - thin outside, fat inside). But it’s also possible that you may have a different flavour of diabetes, and it’s just that the screening has picked it up early before symptoms develop.
Some autoimmune forms of diabetes can come on more slowly in adulthood, and may look alot like T2 to start with (and even respond to T2 meds or diet changes). But if your levels don’t respond in the way you might expect, it may be worth keeping an open mind about diabetes type, and getting checked for GAD antibodies and cPeptide, which shown how much insulin production you have.
Was your HbA1c checked as part of a routine healthcare appointment (eg an over 50s check)?
Diabetes does love to throw some curveballs, bit yours is certainly an atypical presentation.
It may be that you are particularly sensitive to carbohydrate, it may be that your body is predisposed to storing visceral fat around organs early on (so-called TOFI - thin outside, fat inside). But it’s also possible that you may have a different flavour of diabetes, and it’s just that the screening has picked it up early before symptoms develop.
Some autoimmune forms of diabetes can come on more slowly in adulthood, and may look alot like T2 to start with (and even respond to T2 meds or diet changes). But if your levels don’t respond in the way you might expect, it may be worth keeping an open mind about diabetes type, and getting checked for GAD antibodies and cPeptide, which shown how much insulin production you have.
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