Newly pre-diabetic-what to eat?!

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I’m veggie and don’t eat eggs. At the moment I’m mainly eating banybel lights, cantaloupe, Greek yogurt, raspberries, strawberries, small amount of oats for porridge or homemade half whole meal held white bread with seeds, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, risotto made with 25g rice and lots of green veg like asparagus and broccoli and broad beans plus peas. I do a lot of exercise. BMI 22. HbA1c was 44. Cholesterol fine. Carbs are averaging 160/ day.

Argh, sorry for the typos. Half wholemeal half white flour bread. So far my I’ve had tolerated it. And babybel cheese. I’m having portable mushrooms with halloumi and a little apple and fig chutney(teaspoon) with baby leaf salad tonight.

I recommend you find the recipes in Michael Mosley’s books - many vegetarian. He reversed his diabetes, and so did I (although I had some ozempic help!)

This is the veggie booklet from the freshwell GP surgery low carb project for people with type 2 diabetes and pre diabetes.

https://lowcarbfreshwell.com/documents/5/Freshwell-Low-Carb-Vegetarian-Meal-Planner.pdf

This is their page with links to lots of info.

https://lowcarbfreshwell.com

They also have some videos on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/@FreshwellLowCarbProject/videos

This thread has some great recipe suggestions.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/low-carb-recipes/3146576-Vegetarian-Low-Carb-Recipes

Your diet sounds pretty good in general, you could trim off some of the starchier carbs (especially bread) and up salad and veggies maybe. It’s important to get some healthy fats in too. Good luck. Try not to worry too much, many people will dip into prediabetes at some stage and not progress to diabetes, but it’s good to look at where you can adjust things to further reduce the risk of it happening in future.

Thanks for the links. There’s not one recipe I’d eat off that mumsnet thread due to it mainly not being vegetarian, or it contains eggs, or nuts, or things I just won’t eat. I have a very restricted diet due to autism and I’m finding this very challenging indeed. The fresh well say no bread, rice or pasta which contradicts diabetes uk dietary advice so I’m feeling rather overwhelmed to say the least.
I rarely eat bread but I made a loaf last week and was having toast. I usually have porridge for breakfast.

I would highly recommend the Caldesi books.