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Seems to be working well for you Colony. You went from 150 to 120 (30 lbs). How tall are you? 150 is pretty thin unless you are really really short. I am 5'10 and now 140 lbs and don't need to drop anymore weight.You are doing well with your HBA1C. If I can get mine down to 5.3, I will be happy. How many calories would you say you eat in a day?colonyofcells wrote:I probably had preprediabetes for about a decade since my fasting blood sugar was close to 100 for about a decade before it reached prediabetes level.
2010 : fasting 101
2011 : fasting 117. hba1c 6.3
2012 : fasting 094. hba1c 5.5
2013 : fasting 088. hba1c 5.3.
I would attribute most of the improvements to : 1. weight loss of about 30 lbs down to about 120 lbs probably due to increase in low calorie vegetables. 2. unrefined foods. 3. cutting down on animal products and later eliminating them and just take b12 supplements. 4. exercise before breakfast and after every meal. I currently eat all the unrefined starches and fruits I want to fill up my stomach. I often stop eating only when I can't continue anymore. Since my ancestors were not inuit, my guess is I can do well on a high starch diet of unrefined starches and vegetables. I currently don't have a car like my ancestors and I eat the same foods as my ancestors in China.
I am sure the hormone cortisol is causing me some issues with higher than optimal FBG bc of my anxiety. Not quite sure what to make of the increase when exercising. If you have not eaten, the glucose in the bloodstream is being supplied by the liver from stored glycogen.baardmk wrote:Keeping an eye on FBG is a good thing to do while you control those spikes. My "experiment" showed to me that I didn't have any huge problems with BG control, but I didn't like the variability of my readings. I also seem to have the issue of BG rise in the morning, and when exercising. Don't know what to make of that, but it's interesting to know.
I'm thinking about doing a home glucose tolerance test. That should be a good measure of insulin sensitivity I'm hypothesizing, although it's pretty fraught with different sources of error. I'm thinking I could just add BG readings at 1/2 h, 2/2 h and 3/2 hour, subtracted the baseline reading, and the higher the sum is, the worse insulin sensitivity. I'm thinking that even with low FBG and avoiding the spikes, these measures aren't always good for measuring your insulin sensitivity.
Blood Glucose Control and Exercise
There are a few ways that exercise lowers blood glucose:
Insulin sensitivity is increased, so your cells are better able to use any available insulin to take up glucose during and after activity.
When your muscles contract during activity, it stimulates another mechanism that is completely separate of insulin. This mechanism allows your cells to take up glucose and use it for energy whether insulin is available or not.
This is how exercise can help lower blood glucose in the short term. And when you are active on a regular basis, it can also lower your A1C.
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