{"id":642441,"date":"2010-01-25T17:45:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/48017-hi-new-member-prediabetic.html"},"modified":"2010-01-25T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:45:25","slug":"hi-new-member-prediabetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/642441","title":{"rendered":"Hi, New Member Prediabetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I have lurked for a little while, but maybe I&#8217;m ready to post, finally, lol.  I was diagnosed as a prediabetic in 2004 but didn&#8217;t really get it that I should do more than just keep on trying to &quot;eat healthy,&quot; meaning to me just no junk or sweets, or maybe calorie counting and controlling the amount of junk or sweets.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t always eat enough protein, I think, but I always ate plenty of carbs!!!  Wonder why my fasting numbers and a1c never got any better!<\/p>\n<p>I finally figured out I&#8217;d have to let go of starches, fruit and milk. When I have those I spike.  I can&#8217;t eat grains.  I test a lot so I know what I can eat and have good bg numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Poor me&#8230;..! But on the happy side I do feel great and am at almost my ideal weight (within 10 lbs)&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;!  Maybe it was all worth it then?! Yep, I think so&#8230;..<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have lurked for a little while, but maybe I&#8217;m ready to post, finally, lol. I was diagnosed as a prediabetic in 2004 but didn&#8217;t really get it that I should do more than just keep on trying to &quot;eat healthy,&quot; meaning to me just no junk or sweets, or maybe calorie counting and controlling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2930,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2H7X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}