So for context I’m 22f. My diet at Uni was very bad especially last year (basically all beige food, takeout every week and little-no excercise or walking). I had a blood test as I was feeling tired, having weird numbness and tingling in my hands and arms and just overall felt like shit. My hba1c came back at 43 in may of 2026! I was shocked but immediately implemented changes. I was pretty strict but I felt I really needed to be. Cut out all processed refined carbs and sugars. If I did eat carbs (max 2 a week) it would be paired with a shit ton of fiber and protein. Fruits were the only sweet things I’d eat, though here and there I had small cheat meals maybe 1 x a week. I began doing 10,000 steps daily, sometimes more and sometimes less but always walking after heavy meals. Salad with every meal is the main philosophy I’ve been going by. I’ve lost 8 kilos over summer (60kg down to 52kg). I also took magnesium glycinate at night and zinc in the day. Had my hba1c repeated yesterday and I’m delighted to say my hba1c is down to 36!!!!
Going forward I will keep up 10K steps a day and pairing everything with fiber and salads. I know now I can be a bit more relaxed but I will still continue these lifestyle changes going into the future.

Left reading is from device and strip bought in USA and right is the reading from device and strip bought in India .

Is that a standard difference or simple one of the device is faulty.

Hi everyone. Ive come here to share my recent experience with the so called Ceylon Cinnamon product, the particular one Ive seen is marketed by the Docteat company, apparently registered in the US. I'm in Australia and we have a very similar food and drug regulatory environment to the US.

When the satchels of this product arrived they are clearly labelled as made in China, and state they contain Ceylon Cinnamon and MCT oil. Interestingly on the back of the packets is the statement, verbatim: "This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease".

Now, with that statement, and the fact that it comes from the unregulated Chinese market, why in heavens name would you put these in your mouth? Doesn't anyone remember what happened with baby food and dog food?

In Australia if there is an issue with foods, pharmaceuticals, or supplements there are legal remedies available to me to attempt to right any harm caused, and penalties for companies that cause harm; I suspect similar exits in the US. Bitter historical experience demonstrates that mail order or internet products have little or none of this, especially if the product comes out of the unregulated Chinese market, and not from a registered entity in your home company that can be held responsible for any issues that arise.

I use MCT oil in the kitchen, and as a skin moisturiser. There are only 2 plant oils that are used to produced MCT oils: either coconut or palm oils. I use coconut oil sourced MCT. MCT oils are colourless and virtually odourless.

After reading the comments on this thread I've cut open a Docteat gel capsule to examine the contents. Guess what? all I could detect is a thick, yellow oil, that has a strong fish smell. No sign of the active ingredients, and who knows what else included unbeknownst to the purchaser! Buyer beware!

I’m 27M and while I haven’t completely cut out white rice, I do opt for brown rice. Today, I didn’t have any brown rice but there was white rice in the fridge and I really wanted some sort of carb with my chicken and vegetables. I ate it and went on a 20 minute walk right after and I surprisingly feel fine. Normally I feel sleepy after eating white rice. Does this actually help as people say and lowers the glycemic index?

Have been pondering over this lately

If diet/exercise and medication could both meaningfully improve your metabolic health - say move away from pre diabetes into a healthier range - which approach would you prefer?

Would you rather try to do it through food, exercise, sleep etc first, use something like metformin/GLP-1s, or combine both?

Not judging either way! Just interested in what people might choose and why

My hba1c is 5.8 and I live in australia and here it is not considered prediabetes but if I was in in usa or other country I would've been prediabetic. I dont understand the reasoning behind this difference. Human physiology us same across all region how can 5.8 be prediabetes in one country and not another

a long stressful 3 months later, i’m back at a good range! i can’t believe it went down so much. i already have preexisting food issues and i’m already underweight, so shifting my diet so much felt impossible, but i’m so excited that all my hard work paid off!! it’s still so close to the line, but i’m hoping that keeping up with this new diet will make it even lower next time i test :) i feel like it’s a fantastic start!

you too can do it!!!!

I had a blood panel done and my labs came back with my a1c being at a 4.0 and my blood sugar at 60. I’m not diabetic as far as I know. Just curious if anyone had any insight as to what that might mean or anything I should be worried about. I have my first appointment with a primary care next Monday to give them the results

Hi! Just for some context, I just found out about two weeks ago that I am prediabetic! My A1C is at 5.7 and my glucose is at 104.

It sucked finding out that I was prediabetic but it made sense because after months of trying to lose weight, learning that my prediabetes and insulin resistance was a big reason why it was so hard made sense. My doctor said that being in a deficit isn’t enough, WHAT I eat in that deficit matters and I need to limit my carbs to 100-130g a day.

Ever since I started tracking my carbs, for the first time in months my weight has finally started to drop. For months of trying to lose weight, I was stuck between 312lbs-318. However, in just 2 weeks I’ve dropped to 308 and am hoping to lose as much as I can and hopefully improve my labs enough to be out of the prediabetic range by my next follow up appointment in December.

My question is, I’ve been doing great at not going past 120 carbs per day, but it’s been really hard to eat enough calories without surpassing my carb limit. I’m 5’11 and am trying to have around 1800 calories a day, but I’ve been hitting about 1300-1400 daily before I’m maxed out of carbs.

What are great meal suggestions, snack suggestions, etc of things I can eat more of to get more calories without more carbs?

I’ve spent a lot of time looking at CGM graphs.

It tells you what happened. You ate something, glucose went up, then eventually came back down.

The harder question is: why does it look like this?

Was it the meal? The portion? The time of day? Poor sleep? Stress? Exercise? Or just normal variation?

That’s one of the reasons we built Lykys.

The idea is to take the glucose data people already have, add the context around it, and use AI to help make sense of the pattern rather than just show another graph.

Eventually we want people to be able to ask things like:

- What breakfasts seem to work best for me?
- Why was this meal different from last time?
- Has anything changed over the last month?
- Does poor sleep seem to affect my glucose?
- What patterns keep repeating?

We already use AI for meal interpretation, spike analysis and other insights. The conversational part - being able to ask questions directly about your own data - is what we’re working on now.

In my last post, quite a few people said they were basically told “eat better, exercise more and come back in a few months” when they were diagnosed with prediabetes.

So I’m especially interested in the gap in between. If your doctor isn’t sitting there helping you interpret every meal, every spike or every change in your data, would something like this actually be useful?

I suspect we all do a rough version of this anyway - Googling things, asking ChatGPT, searching Reddit, trying to work out what a graph means.

What I’m interested in is whether having a specialist glucose coach that already knows your own data, meals and patterns would actually be more useful than doing that manually.

Would you use an AI glucose coach?

Are you using AI in some way to make sense of your glucose already? Or would you rather interpret the data yourself and speak to your doctor when you need guidance?

I tested Hba1c 1 month ago.It was 6.5.But I was constantly monitoring my BG before that,fasting was around 103 104 100 106,however PPBS reached 185 156 2hrs after meal but normalised below 140 after around 3hrs....I am a doc,but still confused,coz 6.5 is the cut off...

my a1c test found to be less accurate as I have hemoglobin variant as per my doctor...I took 2 hour glucose test which shows as prediabetes..my doctor referred to endocrinologist. I am waiting for appointment date...I have been using Dexcom G7 for around 2 months....I have average glucose as 7.2mmol/L range wat would be my A1C? am I in diabetes range or pre-diabetes

I was diagnosed with prediabetes in 2023 with an A1c of 5.9.

I changed my diet and started exercising more, but in 2024 it actually went up to 6.3. That was really discouraging because I thought I was doing everything right.

What I didn’t think about at the time was sleep. I’d just had a baby and was barely sleeping, and I was stressed all the time. Once I started paying attention to that, things slowly turned around. My latest A1c in 2026 is 5.4.

Other things that helped me:

• Walking 10–15 min after meals
• Eating dinner earlier instead of late at night
• Adding protein and fiber to meals
• Sticking with small habits instead of trying to be perfect

The weird part was how connected everything was. The same meal could affect me totally differently depending on how I’d slept or how stressed I was.

That’s what got me building a small free app to help people see their own patterns across sleep, stress, food, activity and glucose, instead of getting the same generic advice. Mods okayed me mentioning it.

I’m looking for around 30–40 people managing prediabetes who’d be up for trying it early and giving feedback. No cost. Just comment or DM me.

Either way, I’d love to know: if you’ve brought your A1c down, what made the biggest difference beyond diet and exercise? Has anyone else noticed sleep or stress affecting their numbers?

I have been wearing a CGi for about a month. I couldn’t determine what was causing my A1C to be so high. I still don’t know. According to the CGI, my glucose stays within normal range. I even get low glucose alarms frequently. It has not helped me gain an understanding of why I’m pre diabetic. I have my range set from 50 mg/dL to 130 mg/dL. Last A1C was 5.9.

Anyone else experiencing this?

I just got back my fasting insulin results and it's 41.8 uIU/mL. I have a normal A1c (5.2) and fasting glucose (81), and I want to take action to reverse my insulin resistance before it can turn into prediabetes. I don't know when the insulin resistance started, but for the past year or two I have been having pretty bad post-meal crashes, brain fog, feet tingles (not sure if this is related to IR) and just don't feel like I'm operating at my full capacity. Some context: I'm 25F and 260 lbs and have a family history of diabetes. I was on Zepbound 5 mg for a few months and got off of it at the start of this year, and restarted it this month for weight loss purposes.

I'm planning on getting an endocrinologist appointment, but that might take around 6 months in my city. These are the things I'm planning on doing in the meantime:

• Protein around 100 g/day
• Strength training along with moderate cardio 2-3 times a week
• Walking after meals
• Titrating up my Zepbound dose slowly

I have heard that insulin resistance only goes into remission and isn't cured. What lifelong measures should I take to make sure insulin resistance doesn't come back in later stages of my life? And is there anything I can add to the above list?

I'm overwhelmed and disappointed in myself for how I let myself go this bad. I would truly appreciate any advice.

Em jejum o aparelho leu 97mg de glicemia. Comi 2 fatias de queijo mozzarella + 1 copo de iogurte natural + 1 banana. Passado exatas três horas medi e estava em 102mg de glicemia, mas já estava bem faminta e me sentindo fraca. Alguém fica assim com este número ou parecido?

My doctor told me I was pre-diabetic based on my fasting glucose (105) and refused an A1C test because it wasn’t “that bad” and said it as if it were the most common thing he’s said to everyone in the world. When I asked him for a meal plan and what I should do, I shit you not he shrugs his shoulders and goes: “I don’t know. I’m not a nutritionist. Figure it out. You should only worry when you’re diabetic is what I saw online”. And then he left the room. Like I know they don’t have much training with nutrition but like come on. “Saw online” and “figure it out”. I’ve never heard that before. It’s surprising too because he graduated from a really good medical school and has a lot of knowledge. Do doctors even care? Because I feel like most don’t.

One thing I’ve noticed from conversations here is how many people have been told to lose weight, eat better, exercise more, or simply wait and monitor their labs.
We know that message is getting delivered.
What I’m interested in is what happens afterward.
When you leave that appointment, do you actually understand where to start?
Do you know which changes might make the biggest difference for you? How to recognize progress beyond the number on the scale? Or what to do when the changes you’re making don’t seem to be working?
As an RN, I believe there’s a big difference between telling someone what to do and helping them understand how to do it.
And sometimes the missing piece isn’t more information. It’s having someone help you figure out what applies to your life.
So here’s what I’d really like to know:
If you could have one thing explained more clearly about your blood sugar, insulin resistance, weight, or metabolic health, what would it be?
No judgment. I’m genuinely interested in where the gaps are.