If you are losing, your chances are good to lower your A1C, though there are no guarantees. As I am sure your doctor told you, avoiding high carb foods (with the exception of fruit) is key. So avoiding bread, pasta, corn, sugar, etc. It takes two readings in a row of 6.4 or greater on your A1C to be classified as diabetic. Your fasting blood sugar does matter, as well, and I think it might make sense to request a blood sugar test after consuming glucose - they do it two hours afterwards. I'm not a doctor, so confirm this with your doctor. I do volunteer work in 3rd world countries and one of the doctors I work with is a diabetes specialist - I have learned things from her. Ask your own doctor about anything I say, of course. I'm so happy to hear about your success because you do not want diabetes. It is worth what you need to go through to avoid it. One word of caution: my doctor here in the villages was not willing to follow the advice on frequency of A1C blood testing. I received a 6.3 and on my village health insurance portal, I could see that the lab advised my doctor to test again every 4 months. He just said "we'll test again in a year". I changed doctors, because testing once a year is not standard for prediabetics. So read your health portal results in full and have a serious talk with your doctor about why he or she might want to vary from the recommendations on the report. I believe sometimes doctors order too many tests (to prevent law suits) and sometimes they order too few (to be rated as a "cost efficient doctor"). I am sure they order the proper amount quite often, but you should check various sources on what tests you should have and how often they should happen. Btw, studies show curcumin at 1 gram per day is even more effective than metformin in helping prediabetics avoid diabetes. You can google these studies. Most doctors won't give a prediabetic metformin, but some will. You can ask your doctor what he or she things about this medication, but obviously, if diet and exercise suffice for you, you would not want this. But...curcumin does not need a prescription - it is a natural substance from food. If you decide to use it, be sure to get curcumin and not just tumeric . Curcumin is a natural substance in tumeric, but the studies are about curcumin (already taken out of the tumeric). It is not a miracle cure, so please continue a good diet and exercise if you take it. I believe it helps only some, so lifestyle change needs to take place, which I can see you are doing. Best wishes.
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