Any of you prediabetic? My A1C is 6.0 and Jim's is 6.2. The internet guidelines are a little confusing. What diet do YOU follow?

What? Darnit that's SO remiss of Rosie, I shall have to make up for it by calling names extra hard on here today.. it brings a disturbance to the force ya know if one fails to call Strumpet a name or two.

((hugs)) I'm gonna hafta adopt you DdbTD. I'm 79. I don't know how old you are but hey ya wanna be my grandaughter/daughter? I'd be honored! Thank you for your nifty reply! :) I don't know how you ALWAYS come up with the perfect response. But you do! SIGH. Wish I had that ability too! :)

What is the point of your first sentence O? You totally blew the value of the rest of your response. What are you trying to do? Crucify yourself? Seriously dude this is way unthoughtful, unhelpful, uncalled for. Why waste YOUR TIME and MINE? Either answer the question I ask without editorializing or ignore my questions and me. Seriously. I shall have to ignore thee otherwise. Perhaps that is your goal? I don't know what happened to you but condolences and Happy Monday to you. This post was edited by RosieG at March 6, 2017 11:47 AM MST

This is a very useful and informative reply m'dear. Thank you. I appreciate it.  What about sweet things like Carbsmart ice cream or other things sweetened with Splenda? OK or avoid?  We love whole grains and veggies and nuts and seeds and lean meat. But I think we have grossly overdone eating fruit and DRIED FRUIT which of course is a no no! We're adjusting. We don't want to develop full-blown Diabetes. Happy Monday  SS!:) ((hugs))  That's for being so helpful! :)

We use maple syrup a lot as a sweetener, or agave.  We have a dog, and artificial sweeteners are poison for them.  Hubby and I and my MIL have terrible reactions to aspartame - so we just avoid them in total.  We live in the maple belt...and it's just so darn tasty.

I also dry blueberries and strawberries and peaches and apples, etc.  No added sweetness or chemicals.  A couple of pieces of fruit a day (or the equivalent) seems to work just fine for us.

 

No...we sure don't want to develop full blown diabetes!  Hubs was hospitalized with BS of over 850!  However, we changed diet to the above and his BS is stable and the doctors are very, very pleased.

Hugs back atcha.  Be safe, take care.

You do know that maple syrup has 53 grams of sugar per 1/4 cup don't you sweetie? Jim loves it but it is now out of bounds for him. I hope you don't use it lavishly or often. Real maple syrup is the best taste-wise. Nothing comes close to it. Do you ever eat Carbsmart or sugar-free ice cream? The recommended diet is kinda confusing. Depending upon the site some fruits are good on one and to be avoided on another. Like oranges. I know berries are about the healthiest/wholesomest They are also the most expensive! Of course! Thank you for your thoughtful, helpful and informative reply Sugar. Hey that fits you vis a vis maple syrup! Ever have any of those absolutely delish candies made from maple sugar? Add pecans to them and how can you stop from eating more than you should? Lucky you. Just be careful of the sugar gram count. :)

Yes, I do, RosieG.  At the same time, maple syrup has a lower glycemic index (54) than table sugar (65), so it may keep blood sugar more on an even keel and cause fewer blood sugar highs and lows. 

Thank you driftwood. I appreciate your kind answer. You're very welcome m'dear. This is what we were told by the Diabetes Prevention Expert ". As we get older some of us have a difficult time metabolizing sugar. It isn't that we eat too much of it necessarily but that our systems have a harder time handling it. We like our sweets but have never been huge sweets eaters so we were kinda puzzled. We have been overdoing eating fruit however. The body can't differentiate between natural sugars that occur in fruit and other sugared things. Some fruits are deadly high in sugar grams and you need to avoid them. Dried fruit is a big no no and we love it! So we're adjusting. It won't be so hard for us because our diet mostly consists of veggies, whole grains. lean meats, nut and seeds. Fruit I think is probably the culprit. It would be good to check your A1C. If you go to the doctor regularly you might ask if that could be included among whatever blood tests the doc orders. An A1C above 5.7 I believe means you are prediabetic and that means if you don't change your diet you will get Diabetes. So we don't want that. Happy Monday to you! :)

Thank you so very much for your helpful and informative answer Maurice. Jim and I eat a very healthy diet. Mostly whole grains, veggies, lean meats, fruit, nuts and seeds. I think the culprit is fruit! Including dried fruit which we LOVE! We eat or did eat lots of it. I mean craisins and walnuts for a quick snack? How delicious is that? What the Diabetes Prevention Expert told us is that as we age some of us have a problem metabolizing sugars. It may not be that we eat too much "sugar" in terms of candy/desserts. But as you know fruit has natural sugars and the body does not differentiate between those sugars and candy/dessert sugar. So we're adjusting. We sure don't want full-blown Diabetes. It is not in our families at all so that's a good thing.  I've used Splenda for years and I don't have quite the sweet tooth Jim does. I also use Atkins products which is sugar-free and have for years. And we eat Carbsmart ice cream and have for years because we generally wanted to limit our sugar intake.  What I didn't consider was that fruit can be dangerous sugar-wise if we eat too much of it. And we did. Now we realize that we have to modify/eliminate/be very selective both in what we eat and in the Quantity!  You know what they say? Too soon old too late Schmart! Happy Monday! :)