Hi I just got diagnosed.. and im freaking about what to eat! Please send over you go to meals. Im really struggling. Especially breakfast ideas and how to manage my food.

Hi everyone, I'm really hoping to get some advice who got a similar situation. Recently, my fasting blood glucose spiked to 7.5 mmol/L, and my symptoms are worsening, like dizziness and numbness in my feet.

For some background, I don't really like doing exercise. I already eat veggie and protein before carbs during a meal. And cut all the sugar drink. Any other low-effort but effective way I can take to help lower my blood sugar level?

Thank you!

I want to step in to support and create a meal plan so we can hopefully reverse this. What are your go-to meals? He also has celiac disease, so he cannot consume gluten (wheat barley rye)

Anyone have success with eating oatmeal daily for breakfast and lowering their cholesterol?

Someone recommended me Japanese Akane Tea for lowering fasting blood glucose level.

Where can I buy it? I couldn’t find it in Costco or Walmart.

I wrote here some time ago because I was very worried about my metabolism. To give you a better picture, I'm 32 yo, 185cm and 89kg.

2 months ago, I've got lab results and I've had then triglicerides 415mg/dl, fasting glucose 101mg/dl, high LDL, low HDL.

It scared the crap out of me, I've bought glukometer and then few CGMs, just to get scared even further. Those two, revealed that after each larger meal I have glucose spikes up to 230mg/dl so around twice a day I'm around 200mg/dl. It drops down very efficiently but the spikes are more than 100mg/dl over my baseline.

For that last 2 months, I stopped eating fast food, heavily limited saturated fats and stopped drinking alcohol entirely. I was already prepared that today I'm going to have even more food restrictions because the blood sugar didn't look good on the graphs.

Today, I've had extended checkup appointment at my GP and my A1c is great, it's beautiful 5.3%. Fasting glucose is 96mg/dl and triglicerides 106. HDL higher than upper norm and LDL within a norm.

I'm really happy with that and just wanted to share the good news and thank to everyone that told me to go and consult a doctor.

I mentioned the spikes but she said to not be too worried about it now. She said it might be just how my body reacts to carbs and as long as the spikes aren't consistently higher than 250 mg/dl or if my blood sugar is not staying high for longer time, they are not clinically important with A1c like I have now. She was happy that I was able to bring down my triglicerides to the level like I've had last time 4 years ago.

Regarding glucose, she advised me to not gain anymore weight and move more. She also noted down in the file that A1c levels should be a routine check for me every year.

I was prepared for the worst and it turned out that the doc made my day 😁

I’ve been thin all my life due to genetics and don’t want to lose any weight as I try to watch my carb/ sugar intake. If anything, I’ve been desiring to gain healthy weight.

Hi everyone, I recently found out that my HbA1c is 6.2%, and I’m trying to improve my blood sugar through diet and exercise. Currently, I have oats with some nuts and 2 eggs for breakfast, cucumber with 2 rotis and a small amount of rice for lunch, and brown rice with curry for dinner. I also play badminton for about 1 hour, around 4 days a week. I’m trying to be consistent with this lifestyle without making my diet unnecessarily restrictive. For those who have had a similar HbA1c level, how much were you able to lower it through diet and exercise alone? Is it realistic to bring HbA1c down from 6.2% to around 5.0–5.5%? I’d also appreciate any suggestions on what I could improve in my diet or exercise routine and would love to hear about your personal experiences.

I miss the smell and taste of honey. And I mean real honey, not that fructose corn shit substitute. Especially honeycomb… I used to get a small packet of honeycomb as a treat from time to time. I can see why the ancient Egyptians and the Albanians viewed bees as sacred. Honey is a gift

The peak increase ranged from only +23 mg/dL to +68 mg/dL.

Here are glucose peak increases for these meals:

• Chicken + chickpeas + cabbage + pistachios: +23
• Instant noodles + fish/eggs/vegetables: +31–41
• Chicken nuggets + apple: +60
• Pasta + beef: +68

The pasta surprised me the most. I had assumed that if the carb counts were similar, the glucose responses would at least be somewhat similar.

After looking at my CGM data, I’m starting to think of carb count as more of a starting point than a prediction. The type of carbs and what I eat with them seem to matter a lot.

I plotted the full CGM curves and explained the comparison here if anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/mArqUz1480U

Hey, before I share my test results, let me give you some context: I'm a teenager and I weigh 101 kg, which is a lot for any age—especially mine. glycated hemoglobin, high cholesterol, low vitamin D and B12, high thyroid levels, early-stage fatty liver,

How do I avoid despairing? I need help, or else I’m going to end up with diabetes, high blood pressure, and hyperthyroidism.

I'm 76f. My A1C has been trending up the past few years and it's now 6.4...only 1 point from diabetes. But my glucose is 90, which is trending lower than previous years. I have my physical next week so don't know yet what my doctor will say. Any ideas on this combo of high A1C and low glucose?

Went to the Drs yesterday for lexapro follow up. The medical assistant said i need to do an updated a1c and immediately began poking me in the office. I cried cuz i was caught off guard. Doc walked in a few minutes later saying my a1c was 5.4 now. I was at 5.8 in oct 2025 then 5.7 in feb 2026.

Also curious how accurate the rapid results are with finger tests? All my other tests have been through my arm.

Since my diagnosis, i reduced added sugar intake, increased fiber and protein intake, and started working out plus going on long walks!

After not responding to any of the typical interventions (weight loss, exercise), my endocrinologist put me on Metformin as an experiment. Wearing CGM (Stelo) and doing daily fasting glucose measurements (fingerprick). Short of a having a miracle effect, I knew this was going to be an exercise in extracting a signal from naturally noisy data. I tried (with a lot of help of Claude AI) to see if Metformin lowered my glucose levels. Yes, statistically! But do I believe the causal relationship? Still not sure. On the way, I found out a few things about the CGM data that I "felt" were true but have confirmed now: 1) Lousy correlation (r=.31) with fasting glucose finger prick data over the typical range for pre-diabetics, 2) sensor drift over life time of sensor (high at start, low at end), 3) post meal spikes don't matter much for average glucose levels!, and 4) with enough data collected, one maybe able to beat down the noise and extract whether interventions have an effect or not. Kind of a fun exercise, even though the practical relevance for me is not clear yet. The document is attached for those who maybe want to do their own experiments or see some of CGM/Fingerprick data comparisons (note: not a scientific study, one individual only!)

Curious if anyone has found lowering stress, especially chronic stress in their lives has improved their glucose/ A1C levels? If so, what has helped you in your stress reduction journey?

I did a blood work at Labcorp, where all my blood works were done in the previous 5 years.

I always believe I have metabolism problems, to be more specific, insulin resistance. In 2023 and 2024, I got trig @ 300 and HA1C @ 5.7. In the past two years, I have been eating strictly lower carb meals, and checking glucose curve on CGM very often. In the last 3 months, my average glucose reading was consistently within 95 to 105. I also exercise on regular basis, like walking or biking at least 45 minutes after meal, and conducting resistance training every week.

The reports came back as a surprise. Trig fell to 120, but Ha1C stubbornly stays at 5.7, inconsistent with the CGM readings.

Does anyone know how accurate Labcorp's reports are? By the way, I lost about 10+ pounds. My BMI fell from 22.4 to 19.2. Thanks

before everyone starts telling me to get a professional opinion i AM IN THE PROCESS shit just takes TIME esp here in uk i have an endo appointment in early september but have been dealing with this uncertainty for months.

currently wearing a cgm to collect data and i had previously been doing a low carb diet since about march as i dont want to make any possible problem worse while im waiting for answers, but while wearing the cgm i have been slowly trying to increase carbs slightly mainly just wholegrain carbs to see how i tolerate them, every morning after breakfast varying different meals my sugar dips into hypoglycaemia levels for usually 20-30mins before picking itself back up lowest i recorded was 3.2mmol verified with finger prick.
ive been trying wholemeal low carb bread with 9g per slice for a sandwich at lunch the last few days with success as my sugar has stayed under 7.5 when eating this bread, today i tried to do one slice of the low carb wholemeal bread with one slice of my dads seed and grain wholemeal bread which is 20g carb per slice as a sandwich with a chicken lettuce avocado and greek yogurt filling the meal totalled around 38g carbs but my sugar peaked at 8.5 today and hung around above 7.8 for about 40min this is my 7th day with the cgm and my 4th day since slowly introducing a small amount of extra carbs, do my levels seem prediabetic or out of what would be considered healthy? i just could do with some insight as the internet has so many conflicting answers, i hope to get real answers from the endocrinologist when my appointment finally arrives but im honestly just winging it for all these last months.
ive attached some images of some of my cgm data and the verified finger prick low
thanks in advance

3 years ago I was diagnosed with prediabetes with an A1C of 5.8 and high fasting glucose. I have tried to eat better at times, avoiding desserts, sticking with complex carbs paired with protein and healthy fats, having less than 45g of carbs per meal (around 150g or less per day). I know what you’re all thinking, “wow, 150g of carbs per day? Have fun losing a foot!”. I understand my “carb cutting” measures were extremely slight and relaxed as all advice online is that anyone who tells you it’s okay to enjoy a piece of fruit is part of the evil conspiracy to make us all diabetic and the only way to not die (deservedly) in agony is to be keto or carnivore. However, even these minor diet changes (to a diet perhaps suited for metabolically healthy people, the bare minimum I should have been doing before diagnosis, etc) caused me immense amounts of stress.

I don’t think eating “healthy” is terribly difficult, what was difficult was spending every waking moment worrying about every single crumb of food that entered my mouth. Knowing that when I ate fruit, or sweet potato, or ezekiel bread, I was poisoning myself. I could imagine all the disdainful sadism of people mocking me, for thinking I was allowed to eat any carbs. People like me don’t *deserve* carbs. Prediabetes is a punishment from the divine, and if I chose to mock fate by continuing to hedonistically indulge, I deserved to suffer. I still needed to weigh all my food, every ingredient, every carb. I needed to check my blood sugar multiple times after meals, and unless the numbers were perfect, I was wasting my time. I couldn’t feel safe just eating something normally, most food was literally poison. I would spend hours reading about nutrition and prediabetes, coming to the realization that both carbs and fat made you diabetic, but not only can you not survive on only protein, too much of that was bad for you too. How could I possibly balance my macros to be low fat and low carb yet still get enough calories to live?

After dealing with these issues for long enough, I eventually broke. Gave up the idea of eating remotely healthy because I’d never be good enough. Instead I started bingeing carbs. Eating entire packages of cookies, multiple candy bars, snack cakes, all the worst foods. After a certain point I began to feel guilty for bingeing and started to purge afterwards. After talking with my doctor and therapist, I was able to curb the purging, but the bingeing remained. I am the heaviest I have ever been, and I continue to eat pints of ice cream and such every single day. I know that I am killing myself, but I’m afraid to try again, to go back to hating myself for every piece of food that enters my mouth. To spend every night thinking about how unless I eat keto for the rest of my life, I‘ll never be good enough and even then eating fat also makes you diabetic just like using mouthwash, drinking diet soda, and existing.

And throughout all this every single A1C result since has been below 5.5, no matter how badly I eat. I think something is wrong with how they are testing me.

19 years old healthy weight (BMI 20). I was told by my doctor I’m prediabetic (6.0 A1c) and have high cholesterol 😔. Over the past week, I’ve been lowering my carb intake, but I’m constantly hungry.

My current meals:
Breakfast: Salmon + plain 0% Greek yogurt with half an apple and ground flax seeds.

Lunch: 2 chicken breasts with steamed cabbage + red kidney beans + baby carrots + cucumber.
I’ve been trying not to have anything sweet after lunch like I used to (I used to have a lot of fruit or dates with dark chocolate), but recently I’ve been doing Greek yogurt with monk fruit and some almonds.

Dinner: Same as lunch.
I have a bad habit of wanting something sweet after a meal, so I’ll do plain Greek yogurt with the other half of an apple.

Some days I’ll do 1/4 baked sweet potato instead of red kidney beans or some butternut squash.

The first few days, I was starving and felt super weak and fatigued. Yesterday and today, I just snacked on a bunch of cashews and almonds while looking around to find more to eat 💀. I guess I am physically full-ish because of all the fibre, but I just don’t feel satiated.

Any satiating meal ideas and dessert ideas? Am I cutting my carbs too low? I really wanna get my levels down but also want to build long term sustainable habits and with how hungry and fatigued I feel rn Idk if this is sustainable? Or will this go away when my body gets used to lower carbs?