Pre Diabetic & worried

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Hello, I'm just looking for some support really. I've just been told that I'm pre Diabetic, & I've been told that I will have a phonecall with the nurse but that's not for a few weeks now.

I was offered an NHS course, which you can do in person or online. Putting aside pre-diabetes, I find it really interesting and hope that it'll help with other elements of my life, not just glucose levels.

The group I've joined have gone totally cold turkey with everything on the course, but two have had a follow up blood test and are now out of the pre-diabete range.

Course covers carbs and sugars, exercise, weight, stress and sleep - it all has an impact. Mindfulness will also help.

It is quite scary being diagnosed a pre diabetic. But, you can change your life to make it better. Not by panicking and starving yourself.

Basic advice “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Remember to move, walk 7,000 steps or more 10,000 plus would be great but can be hard to achieve.

What does an average day of eating look like?
Tweaking in the right direction is usually better than great big unsustainable leaps.

I was shocked to be told I was prediabetic back in October. I already had a good diet, no junk food, no smoking, little alcohol, gym 3 or 4 times a week. My BMI was 24 and my Hba1c measure was 43. Anything between 42 - 47 is prediabetic. So I was at the lower end of prediabetes. I read around the subject and added a lot more vegetables and eggs to my diet, cutting out rice, pasta and white potatoes. No biscuits etc. I went to the gym a little more often, 4-5 times a week. I had a new test 2 weeks ago and my Hba1c is now 40 so no longer prediabetic. However I will have to continue this regime going forward as I am 60. My diagnosis was age related rather than lifestyle related. As someone else said upthread, thin people can get Type 2 diabetes and not all fatter people will develop Type 2.