new scary motivation

My Dr's office just called and my fasting blood sugar level was in the pre-diabletes level!  They want to re test to confirm, but yikes!  if that isn't motivation to loose weight, nothing is!  My Bp tends to be on the high side or normal too. Loosing weight should stop all of those things.  I NEED to do this...this isn't just about looking good anymore...I want to be around to see my kids kids grow up (mine need to first of course :-) )

That's one of the reasons I had to start trying to lose weight. My blood sugar hadn't been checked in a while, but almost everyone on my dad's side of the family has diabetes, and being overweight doesn't help.

Good luck!

I was just finished entering my food for the day and getting ready to do my turbo jam when i saw your post. Wow... I know how you feel. I was just ranting yesterday, about my doctor and my blood pressure. Hang in there we will do this together.

I'm here because of pre-diabetes, too.  Good news is that after 4 months of eating right, logging everything I eat and counting calories, exercising and losing 25 pounds, my blood sugar is PURRRfectly normal.  Have about 25 more pounds to go.  Good luck!

Kae, what was your number? A couple of weeks ago, my reading came out at 105, considered pre-diabetes also. I'd never had a high reading before.  I did some reading up on it and discovered that maybe my cutting out higher carb vegetables from my diet may have affected my insulin levels. I went back to eating peas, carrots, and even the highly recommended beans, and within 2 weeks, my number was back down to 89.

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oops, sorry. My last post got cut off.

Here's where I got some great information.

http://www.glycemicindex.com/

my number was 116.  MY Dr wants to retest.  I had gestational diabetes so I have a higher threat to get it as an adult.  I WILL get it down though!  I WILL!!!!!!

this is exactly what i want to prevent...either developing diabetes, high blood pressure, etc or being threatened with it. but i'm scared that i might need a motivation like this to really commit. my dad did. it wasn't until he had a heart attack and was diagnosed with diabetes that he changed his whole life around.

 hopefully, i can skate on by without any of these problems and just lose the weight.

kae03...this may be a blessing in disguise...solid motivation to get those pounds off.

i hold good thoughts for you.