Hi
@dolphin35 (Susan) and welcome to the forum. Your HbA1C isn't far into the diabetic range. So relatively small lifestyle changes could be all you need to see non-diabetic blood glucose levels again.
Type 2 diabetes takes quite a long time to develop, certainly years and sometimes decades.
It is caused not just by eating too much sugar, but by eating more than the body can deal with of all (digestible) carbohydrates (starches like grains and potato as well as tropical fruits and added sugar, honey etc.). All digested carbohydrates end up in your blood stream as glucose unless you manage to use them as fuel (which is why athletes sometimes load up with carbs such as banana and other fast acting ones.
These days there are more and more athletes who use fats for fuel instead of carbohydrates, because they provide fuel over a longer period rather than the short bursts of energy from carbohydrates (which then usually leave you feeling hungry soon afterwards).
Strangely, it is excess blood glucose which is stuffed into our fat cells by insulin which is why people become fatter as they become Type 2 diabetic. Dietary fat is an essential macro nutrient and can fuel our bodies almost on its own, but carbohydrates are non-essential, which means the bodies can survive without them.
So the simple thing to do to lower blood glucose, is just to turn off the glucose tap by eating less of things like bread, baked goods, potato, grains (even oats), tropical fruit, fruit juice and sugary food and drink. Instead eat more meat, fish, eggs, cheese, yogurt , berries, nuts and green veg, cauliflower etc.
That's all I had to do to get my Blood glucose levels back into the normal range.
