I am 5-10 weigh 145# and walk 6 miles a day on an inclined treadmill.
Still have “pre-Diabetes. Will be looking into this.
Do you have a meter? Get one. Test your after meal sugars every 30 min for 3hr post meal. Not every time and forever, mind you. Just to find out which meals are jacking your sugar.
If it makes your sugar go up, don’t eat that. Or only eat 1/2 as much next time. Test again. Once you have an idea, stop eating the culprits!
My a1c was 13+ when I was diagnosed. It runs in the low 5’s or high 4’s now with only metformin. If it makes my sugar go over 100 post prandial, I don’t eat that.
Hint: sugar, starch, large volumes of food (even low starch veggies!) will jack your sugars. So will stress. Stress will cause my liver to dump sugar like nobody’s business.
It’s not just fat people. My mom weighs all of 105# soaking sopping wet. Her post prandial when she was tested 5 years ago? 300+. The most she’d ever weighed in her life was 118. That was the day before she had my kid brother.
Diabetes has a strong genetic component. It is not the preventable disease people seem to think it is.
The article about this new “wonder” drug does not mention that there have already been reports of some possible side effects - serious ones, like heart problems.
I agree with a doctor who said he doesn’t prescribe any drug that hasn’t been on the market at least 10 years.
Don’t know how you define pre-diabetes, but they keep lowering the numbers for what constitutes disease states for blood sugar, hypertension, and weight. As we age, all these things tend to rise. If they keep lowering the numbers, pretty soon we will all be considered to be diabetic, hypertensive, and overweight.
It’s my understanding that there are at least 20 types of diabetes. I’d get further and more specific testing of your true type.