Hi Wendy and welcome to the forum.
If there is one thing you should learn right now it's that pre diabetes is no different then full blown diabetes in the way you treat it. It is basically the same condition but you are lucky enough to have found out before it develops to danger levels.
If you take control now you will save yourself a lot of complications later on.
I was diagnosed as pre diabetic with insulin resistance and high blood glucose levels a over a year ago. From the awesome advice people here gave me, I came to understand how to get a handle on it through eating the right foods and hopefully stop it developing to the point of ever needing meds.
You can do this if you focus on low GI diet and monitor how different carbs effect your BG levels. Some are fast acting and will throw your BG way up for a short period so monitoring with a meter is a must to understand what is happening in your body. Balancing food with exercise is important too as it helps the insulin to get at the sugar in your blood.
Your aim should be to try understand how your individual body handles different foods so you can manage to keep your BG as level as possible.
It's not as scary as it first feels and you are definitely not alone.
If there is one thing you should learn right now it's that pre diabetes is no different then full blown diabetes in the way you treat it. It is basically the same condition but you are lucky enough to have found out before it develops to danger levels.
If you take control now you will save yourself a lot of complications later on.
I was diagnosed as pre diabetic with insulin resistance and high blood glucose levels a over a year ago. From the awesome advice people here gave me, I came to understand how to get a handle on it through eating the right foods and hopefully stop it developing to the point of ever needing meds.
You can do this if you focus on low GI diet and monitor how different carbs effect your BG levels. Some are fast acting and will throw your BG way up for a short period so monitoring with a meter is a must to understand what is happening in your body. Balancing food with exercise is important too as it helps the insulin to get at the sugar in your blood.
Your aim should be to try understand how your individual body handles different foods so you can manage to keep your BG as level as possible.
It's not as scary as it first feels and you are definitely not alone.
