Question:
I have recently been diagnosed as Diabetic (II), but apparantly it's very(?)
borderline.
At the moment I'm very overweight (BMI 35.6), and I was tested after a period of
unusual inactivity caused by an accident where I hurt my foot so was unable to
walk for a couple of months, by which time it was cold and I'd got out of the
routine of daily walks. (Enough of the pathetic excuses).
Anyway, what I am trying to find out is some sort of vaguely quantative figure
of how much my glucose levels will drop if I can get my BMI back down to 25ish.
So far I've got more active, dropped a stone and my early morning fasting
glucose levels (tested on a Onetouch Ultra) have gone down from around 7 to
around 5.8.
Is it possible to make any prediction about changes in blood sugar levels as a
result of weight loss?
Answer:
There are so many different things that can make a person diabetic, that
it isn't possible to make a straightforward prediction of how weight
loss will affect any one person.
Some people see dramatic improvement with weight loss--they're people
who are suffering mostly from insulin resistance. Others of us, however,
have inadequate insulin production for one reason or another, and losing
weight doesn't make a dramatic difference there. That was my own
experience. I don't mind being a whole lot thinner, mind you, but it
didn't fix my diabetes.
So the best advice is always to see what weight loss will do for you. If
it doesn't solve the problem, then it is time to look into other
possibilities.
It sounds like you are off to a very good start, though.
