Intermittent fasting and prediabetes

day17

I just found out I have prediabetes with A1C levels at 6.3(6.5 I will be considered diabetic). I definitely need to get a grip on this and I was doing some research online and saw that intermittent fasting is a very good way to go to lose weight and adjust insulin levels. What's the best way to go with this? I know there are a lot of different plans. Has anyone tried this and succeeded in losing weight and/or lowering insulin?

shaunshaikh

As for intermittent fasting and dieting, the reality is that you'll lose weight if you maintain a calorie deficit, whether you eat 20 meals a day or 1. What is important is what is the easiest way for you to sustainably continue to make those deficits over the weeks and months you need to. For some people fasting helps, other people eat more frequently.

From the prediabetes research I've done, seems like the biggest key is just to lose weight, exercise, and try to limit your sugar. I try to stay between 30-40 grams of sugar a day.

canadjineh

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The Intensive Dietary Management (IDM) Program was developed by Dr. Jason Fung and is based in Toronto, Canada. The program focuses on treating our generation’s great epidemic – metabolic syndrome. This is a spectrum of disease including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, fatty liver, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. Diabetes puts people further at risk for heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease (PVD) including amputation, blindness, kidney disease and more.

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Dr. Fung is a Toronto based nephrologist. He completed medical school and internal medicine at the University of Toronto before finishing his nephrology fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles at the Cedars-Sinai hospital. He joined Scarborough General Hospital in 2001 where he continues to practice.

Lots of Youtube vids, and TED Talks etc with Dr. Fung. He has a very down to earth, straightforward style that is easy for a non-science-geek to follow. Good luck @day17. Acquaintances of mine are doing his program and it's working great for them.