Blood test update - tldr I’m a bit disappointed.
@carlbm - Hba1c- 3 months ago 39 (with 42 being pre-diabetic). This time 37 this was my big disappointment, I have been strict in cutting out sugar, I have been strict in the quality of carbs I have (almost always oats, rice or potatoes and always with a protein source) and I have massively reduced carbs overall, over this period I also drank nearly 2 litres of ACV and ate a lot of cinnamon (theoretically improve glucose disposal from my lay understanding). I’ve eaten zero slices of bread in 3 months (previously ate about 4 slices of white bread a day) in that 3 months space I also ate 1 naan bread and 4 pastries (Christmas day and boxing day) - previously pizza was a weekly occurrence. None of this to mention sugar - I ate sweets (candy) with gay abandon previously, and have eaten zero for 3 months.
Honestly I’m shocked at only dropping 2 points, I’m also frustrated with my cholesterol:
3 months ago:
This time round:
Ok some improvements but disappointing that my HDL didn’t come up, @QuadQueen I did increase my saturated fat quite a bit (eating 6-12 large eggs a day and quite a bit of bacon), also ran out of omega 3 and didn’t replace very quick during this period, any hints for improving? I would say I’m not massively concerned, just nice to see improvements.
Kidney “health” improved (likely just stopping creatine and not hitting a big session the day before test:
3 months ago:
This time:
And my blood stuff came back into line:
3 months ago:
Now:
Closing thought, improvements have been made and I’m going to continue to push on this path, losing some fat over the next few weeks and one other thing occurs to me, might be time to drop oat milk (in my coffee) and pick up some berberine, see if I can’t drop a few more points of the hba1c.
Also some of my test came back void so more tests to follow (mostly iron/ferritin status) which was a bit out of whack last time.