Prediabetic

[Anonymous]

Exactly. I have always been thin as in BMI of 19. When told I was prediabetic, I did all of the things suggested above but only got worse. Diabetes runs in my (thin) family. The only thing that has helped is taking the lowest dose of metformin, as did continuing the low carb eating and exercise

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Eat a whole food plant based diet with minimal processed foods. No oil, no nuts, low plant fats like coconut and avocado.

I'm the first 11:37 and can't figure out why this diet had the opposite effect for me.

A plant-based low food diet can be a disaster for blood sugar unless you keep your portions REALLY small. A meal based on beans and/or carbs is really really bad for your blood sugar.

Not trying to sound flippant, but without plants and beans.. what can we eat???

Omg, right? I'm a new poster. I'm Indian American and vegetarian -- diabetes runs in my family and i'm now prediabetic. I take Metaformin, and my A1C went down from 6.2 to 5.8, but still technically prediabetic. I want to get out of that zone. Beans and carbs or lentils and carbs is like the basis of our diet! Help! I didn't realize how bad a vegetarian diet was -- I'm going to have to give up my beloved cheerios! (I exclusively eat "healthy" cereals like cheerios and grapenuts. Now I;m seeing I need to probably eliminate them all together. I do eat eggs and yogurt, but blah, every day?

[Anonymous]

Same situation. Eggs, tofu, nuts, cheese (including cottage cheese, ricotta), yogurt (plain or kinds with only a few grams of sugar), peanut butter all have helped keep my sugar under check. Also sticking with green veggies and not potato, carrots, tomatoes, etc.

[Anonymous]

Whoa -- even carrots and tomatoes are bad for us? I've known some of this stuff for years and used to see a nutritionist who told me about the importance of adding protein alongside healthy carbs (if eating them) in every meal -- but really it feels like it's just sinking in.

[Anonymous]

Low or no carb breakfast will really help. Studies show this can get sugar in normal range for the rest of the day because for some reason, prediabetic/diabetic people have more trouble with carbs in the am.

Also, exercise is your friend. Exercise causes your muscles to use up the sugar in your bloodstream, so your body doesn't need as much insulin to process it.

[Anonymous]

Sleep and stress reduction are key for me. Actually changed jobs and ended up much healthier.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Eat a whole food plant based diet with minimal processed foods. No oil, no nuts, low plant fats like coconut and avocado.

I'm the first 11:37 and can't figure out why this diet had the opposite effect for me.

A plant-based low food diet can be a disaster for blood sugar unless you keep your portions REALLY small. A meal based on beans and/or carbs is really really bad for your blood sugar.

Not trying to sound flippant, but without plants and beans.. what can we eat???

Omg, right? I'm a new poster. I'm Indian American and vegetarian -- diabetes runs in my family and i'm now prediabetic. I take Metaformin, and my A1C went down from 6.2 to 5.8, but still technically prediabetic. I want to get out of that zone. Beans and carbs or lentils and carbs is like the basis of our diet! Help! I didn't realize how bad a vegetarian diet was -- I'm going to have to give up my beloved cheerios! (I exclusively eat "healthy" cereals like cheerios and grapenuts. Now I;m seeing I need to probably eliminate them all together. I do eat eggs and yogurt, but blah, every day?

I am not a dietitian or nutritionist, but I'm going to recommend you look into a glycemic index diet. This is something that never totally caught on in the US, in part because I think it was viewed by the establishment nutrition field here as akin to Atkins or keto, but it's not. My spouse was finally correctly diagnosed with LADA diabetes overseas - after years of treatment for type 2 that he did not respond to. Anyway, he was recommended this approach to diet - and I say approach because it's not an eat only this plan. It's really simplistiv to say lentils and beans are "bad." They are not. But maybe you need to balance with more protein or look at how you are preparing them, etc.

It's also possible that if you are at a healthy weight, you exercise, and have a healthy diet that you just have diabetes. It's not entirely a lifestyle disease.

[Anonymous]

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In hopes of lowering my triglycerides and ldl, I did a healthy vegan diet for 4 months. No noticeable change in cholesterol, but my AIC went up into the prediabetic range. (I'm within normal weight range but would prefer to lose 10 pounds and exercise lightly by regularly)

Cholesterol doesn’t cause heart disease. Glycated and oxidized cholesterol does, though. Vegan food is full of easily oxidized fatty acids and carbs that will raise your glucose.

[Anonymous]

another vote for keto - totally changed my life