Any Pointers for a new Pre-diabetic?
ok So this was a hard one for me, please bear with the longer post. I got my blood tested at my docs and he did A1c. It came back at 6.3, which is borderline type 2 diabetic.
Now im mid 30s male, 6' and 180 lbs. I have normal BMI and outwardly look quite average/healthy so I was quite shocked.
He suggested I try intermittent fasting for 3 months and we re do the test.
- I began eating only between 12-6pm and stuck to that religiously
- I cut out sugary foods, chocolate, treats/candy, and limited myself to like 1 or so "diabetic aisle" sugar free candies at night if i wanted something dessert like if i had cravings.
So I re-tested last week after 3 months of that schedule. My A1c came back at 6.0 and I was hoping for like 5.5 or something like that...uhg. Better, but still pretty bad.
I went to the pharmacy and bought a blood sugar meter to satisfy my growing morbid curiosity.
-last night I measured my glucose after eating dinner, 3 small pieces of pizza and some steak.
-2 hrs after eating I was at 6.2mmol or 112mg
-4 hrs after eating I was at 7.8mmol or 140mg
when I woke up this morning I was at 5.6mmol or 100mg
Im going to measure myself again at 12 when I would normally break my "fast" for intermittent fasting and see where I am at.
Does this suggest I am like brutally insulin resistant? Im reading my blood sugar should be in the normal range 2 hr after a meal, so it sort of looks like my blood sugar is continuing to climb well past the 2 hr mark, indicative of my blood insulin not affecting the sugar?? am I interpreting this correctly or what here guys?
-Im going to have a very low carb dinner tonight and compare it to the pizza last night and measure myself blood at the same time as last night.
Any suggestions for me going forward? I obviously dont want to damage my body, I got a blood test when I was 20 and my doc at the time said wow your blood sugar is really high but said well your young and athletic so its probably an error or an anomaly and we didnt re-test or do anything with that information. But now with these new tests im fairly certain ive been living on prediabetic/diabetic for the last 15 years.