So in case anyone who read my earlier posts in interested, I went to the doctor, and she ran a few tests, and said I’m not diabetic. She did draw some blood to check my A1C again, and gave me a new schedule for doing my fingersticks. She said I probably had more spikes in the past than I realized, they just passed very quickly, and so I didn’t catch them.
She also said if I think that a diabetic diet is keeping the margins of my highs and lows closer, that’s a good thing, and if I want to stick to it, she’ll send me to a dietician; in the meantime, she gave me the outline of a better-structured diet then the one I was just kind of guessing at based on internet info and remembered information about working with a diabetic client 15 years ago.
My blood sugar is staying pretty much between 85 and 110, mostly around 90. The closest thing I’ve had to a spike in the last week was 128-- high for me, but not really high.
My doctor also said that my BMI is in the normal range, but it’s pushing right against the top range, so if I want to try to lose about 10lbs., it wouldn’t hurt. It might happen anyway, when the weather is nice, now that I can walk all I want because I got my back fixed. I’m not really sure what the best approach is-- maybe I should just go on a bike ride every day for about 20 minutes, not to any place in particular, in addition to doing more walking, to the store, and soforth, or maybe I should get a Fitbit or just a pedometer, and try to hit some kind of goal in my daily activities, and then make up for shortages by riding my bike in the evening if I need to.
I’m going back in three months for the doctor to check my glucometer data.