Doc is giving me 3 months to drop weight or i will be put on meds for diebeties and hb pressure
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Getting your diet nailed IS job one, but some walking could also do wonders for you as a pre-diabetic. Easiest would probably be to train yourself to get up and get going in the morning early enough to accommodate 30 minutes of walking before work. If that seems 'hard,' Google some graphic pictures of advanced diabetics and their ailments. That certainly isn't a picnic! This is totally in your power to turn around. There will never be a time as good as this. Don't waste this opportunity making excuses.0
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azulvioleta6 wrote: »If you are diabetic or pre-diabetic, exercise is NOT optional. It really isn't optional for anybody if the point is to be HEALTHY.
Go DIRECTLY to the gym after work. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, do not sit down. If you were exercising, you would not always feel so drained. It's counter-intuitive, but exercise gives you energy.
Lowering your carb intake can help too. You don't have to go on an extreme Atkins-style diet...just limiting yourself to something like 30G carbs per meal plus one snack can work well.
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What she said ^ I was also prediabetic a few years ago. You NEED to exercise. My doctor made that very clear. Exercise will give you more energy. I get up between 4-4:30 to run. You can make the time and you will feel a lot better.
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azulvioleta6 wrote: »A study in December linked pre-diabetes to undiagnosed chronic kidney disease. Prior to that study, they had only documented direct harmful effects of chronic elevated blood glucose above 140 (half of your prior fasting number).
I think that the connection is pretty clear. A HUGE percentage of people who end up needing kidney transplants have diabetes. [/quote]
It is well documented for diabetes. The difference is that this is the first documentation of it at the prediabetes stage (often described/treated as an innocuous precursor to diabetes) AND the first documetation (at least in this connection) of how poor the standard tests are at diagnosing chronic kidney disease.
I keep talking about my disease management with both my spouse and my mother - one with an A1Cs in the prediabetes range, the other with an A1C in the diabetes range (both of which are medically recommended as the well-controlled range), because they (and their doctors) don't appreciate that an average blood glucose in even the prediabetes range is doing damage.
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I haven't read the entire thread so I apologize if this was already mentioned:
The book, Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solution was a life changer for me. He lays out a a low carb plan so your blood glucose is lower and so is your insulin. Eating low carb high fat reduced my appetite and cravings so I was able to lose weight quickly. I was only about 20lbs over a normal BMI but I was still losing 2-3 lbs per week, even faster in the first couple of weeks.
As an added bonus, my blood glucose started normalizing within days. It is a great plan for diabetics, or prediabetics like me. Good luck.0 -
samantha2127 wrote: »With exercise sometimes you have to fake it before you make it.
This! I see people at the gym all the time walking at 1 mph. If that's all you can do, its better than nothing. But a funny thing seems to happen. That 1 turns into a 2, then a 3 and then the incline starts going up on the treadmill. You have to start somewhere.0 -
mikejdeleon85 wrote: »im waking up at 170-200ish prior to that I was waking up at 300 and through out my day at one time was over 500.
As others have noted, these numbers suggest uncontrolled diabetes. My doctor would not budge about Metformin with a fasting blood glucose of 130. A study in December linked pre-diabetes to undiagnosed chronic kidney disease. Prior to that study, they had only documented direct harmful effects of chronic elevated blood glucose above 140 (half of your prior fasting number).
If I were in your shoes, I would run - not walk - to find another doctor who recognizes that some of the impact of chronic, even mildly, elevated blood glucose can be permanent.
I would seek out an endocrinologist. I've seen quite a few folks who's GP has tried to treat their diabetes. Things usually go in the ditch and they wind up at the endo. Diabetes is a complex condition.
One sad aside. When I first saw my endo I decided we were going to treat this with diet and exercise. He smirked and said come back in six months. In six months I had my A1C down from 7.8 to 5.8. He was impressed. He has a very busy practice. I'm one of only a handful of his patients who have been able to do the diet and exercise route. He says most have the ability but are lacking the volition. It's easier to take a pill or shot than lose weight, exercise and cut carbs.
As you lose weight, you'll find that your insulin resistance will go down as well. For me 180 lbs seemed to be a magic number. Once I crossed that mark my blood sugar readings approached normal, even when I increased my carb intake. Prior to this I was happy to wake up at at 140 mg/dL. Now if I'm at 110 mg/dL I'm bummed.0 -
From my experience, 280lbs on 28th December, currently 267, exercise at a big weight is painful, embarrassing and blooming hard work, I walk only twice a week because I find it hard to get motivated. Dragging that extra weight up the stairs is difficult, so going to the gym for me is out of the question.. But, stick with the calories set, the weight will start to drop, you will start to feel happier, the walking gives you a little boost and your mind set will lift. It's a gradual process but it works.. Good luck X0
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Keep carbs below 100 grams per day0
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I haven't read the entire thread so I apologize if this was already mentioned:
The book, Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solution was a life changer for me. He lays out a a low carb plan so your blood glucose is lower and so is your insulin. Eating low carb high fat reduced my appetite and cravings so I was able to lose weight quickly. I was only about 20lbs over a normal BMI but I was still losing 2-3 lbs per week, even faster in the first couple of weeks.
As an added bonus, my blood glucose started normalizing within days. It is a great plan for diabetics, or prediabetics like me. Good luck.
I will have to check this out thanks for the info .
my current diet I stay hungry no matter what im eating lighter and better but as soon as im done eating I feel that emptiness in my stomach as if I didn't even eat0 -
azulvioleta6 wrote: »A study in December linked pre-diabetes to undiagnosed chronic kidney disease. Prior to that study, they had only documented direct harmful effects of chronic elevated blood glucose above 140 (half of your prior fasting number).
I think that the connection is pretty clear. A HUGE percentage of people who end up needing kidney transplants have diabetes.
It is well documented for diabetes. The difference is that this is the first documentation of it at the prediabetes stage (often described/treated as an innocuous precursor to diabetes) AND the first documetation (at least in this connection) of how poor the standard tests are at diagnosing chronic kidney disease.
I keep talking about my disease management with both my spouse and my mother - one with an A1Cs in the prediabetes range, the other with an A1C in the diabetes range (both of which are medically recommended as the well-controlled range), because they (and their doctors) don't appreciate that an average blood glucose in even the prediabetes range is doing damage.
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Some funky quoting there as I said the second thing and not the first, but point taken. It's all a continuum...you can go as far down that road as you want or you can put the breaks on things. To a great degree, it is a choice.0 -
From my experience, 280lbs on 28th December, currently 267, exercise at a big weight is painful, embarrassing and blooming hard work, I walk only twice a week because I find it hard to get motivated. Dragging that extra weight up the stairs is difficult, so going to the gym for me is out of the question.. But, stick with the calories set, the weight will start to drop, you will start to feel happier, the walking gives you a little boost and your mind set will lift. It's a gradual process but it works.. Good luck X
Huh...at that weight, I was doing fairly intense Zumba and keeping up with the instructor for 90 minutes. I was in the gym at 300 pounds, swimming, then lifting weights by about 280. I was recovering from an illness which caused muscle wasting, so I had more challenges that a lot of people do. Perhaps I just have no shame.
Everybody is different, but no matter where you start out in terms of fitness and endurance, you can always do SOMETHING and keep adding a little more all of the time.0 -
Hi Mike
Let's set up a group cheer squad for us pre-diabetic metabolic syndrome folk. The terrible downside of the New Age of improving lifestyle for achieving better health is the horrible tendency to lay blame for failing health. That is only half of the story. The upside is that if you do get stuck in and start improving on moving and developing better habits - the improvements in health start immediately. Can anyone think of a good group name for us brave souls battling metabolic syndrome - "Battle Class"?0 -
More positive - "Classy Battlers"!0
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mikejdeleon85 wrote: »I haven't read the entire thread so I apologize if this was already mentioned:
The book, Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solution was a life changer for me. He lays out a a low carb plan so your blood glucose is lower and so is your insulin. Eating low carb high fat reduced my appetite and cravings so I was able to lose weight quickly. I was only about 20lbs over a normal BMI but I was still losing 2-3 lbs per week, even faster in the first couple of weeks.
As an added bonus, my blood glucose started normalizing within days. It is a great plan for diabetics, or prediabetics like me. Good luck.
I will have to check this out thanks for the info .
my current diet I stay hungry no matter what im eating lighter and better but as soon as im done eating I feel that emptiness in my stomach as if I didn't even eat
The Metformin helped me not get hungry so often. I don't mean just at first; I mean all the time. I get sensitive to glucose changes. I even had symptoms of hypoglycemia often that anyone would say sounded like it. Except my monitor showed blood sugar that was quite high enough. It was just from the drop in my blood sugar from darned high to normal-high during the day! Getting my blood sugar under control helped things tremendously. For me that means Metformin+ changes right now, but I'm just thankful that Metformin does knock the levels down. That's the most important thing.0
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