INTRODUCTION
HbA1c is an average figure derived from a non-fasting blood sample which informs us about the quality of our glycaemic control (how much we binge on jam doughnuts or Mars bars after midnight). If you have ever had the misfortune to read a test result which announces to you that you have very poor glycaemic control you might, literally, profit from reading on as well as potentially enhancing yourself clinically.
Before you know it, your sugar will be reduced and on paper, at least, you'll be a healthy green label (if you're a NHS patient in England).
The guidance in this web log is going to be brief - a sharp scratch and over very shortly. The web log is not exactly going against the grain but the route to low sugar is perhaps not put in the same manner as the usual surgery advice. Make a fist. The needle is about to go in soon and you'll hardly feel a thing!
AVOID THE SUGAR TAX
Why spend money on any item needlessly? I hope you agree that it is crazy to waste your hard earnt grain: especially on items which may have a deleterious effect on your wellbeing. When you next visit the supermarket you do not need to bother buying:
- FRUIT (other than the fruit content of a low sugar muesli, of which sugars 2)
- CHOCOLATE (diabolically rich in sugar) or any product with chocolate content
- BEVERAGES with high sugar values (check wines etc as they are all responsibly labelled)
- SAVOURY PRODUCTS with the wrong sugar values (of which sugars). For example baked beans are delicious with no added sugar once your sweet tooth changes shape.
The great news is, furthermore, that you need not purchase any of the above again unless you wish to buy them for a non-diabetic third party. There you are - I've just made you richer for life!
Low sugar cereal like Weetabix and non frosted corn flakes are sweet nibbles you can grab after midnight or before if you get withdrawal.
MOVE FROM LARGE TO MEDIUM SIZE
If you do actually conquer the task above and "stringently" (to quote my head GP) prune your sugar portion intake you might save on washing powder and need a clothing size or two down - jogging and staying active are also potential shrinking agents.
Talking of exercise, here's Exercise 1 which I deem to be essential:
Compile a list of any things I've omitted from those you need not buy on your next trip to the shops or in your online order. Tot up the value of those items which will remain in your precious bank account. Remember, as delicious as sherry trifle is, axe it if it's your intention to buy it as it really isn't conducive to achieving the magically low HbA1c figure. Leaving it really is money well not spent.
Potential Answers: Demerrera sugar; Coffee syrups (non sweetener types); Deluxe cakes (especially iced types); Cereals and Granolas with red sugar warnings.
RETHINK MENU PRESCRIPTIONS
By now, you'll have grasped that I'm advocating a way forward with sugar consumption lowering which is tangential to the paths carved out by our established modern surgeries for patients with type 2 diabetic risk.
Perhaps you've received a meal plan set from your medical practice - manna from heaven at first glance. Maybe it suggests FRUIT three times daily after each square meal. Maybe you confuse fruit with other sweet treats and before long you persuade yourself that a chocolate bar might be an appropriate equivalent.
Both FRUIT and CHOCOLATE are rich in sugar and if they don't go in your shopping basket they can't go on the Menu: you want your HbA1c to look good? ditch both and watch that space.
"Five a day" (of fruit and vegetables) need not be axed within my recommendations for sugar reduction - despite extreme minimum fruit in the maul trolley.
Tomatoes (I call them savoury fruit) are not as much of a threat to the HbA1c figure or indeed our waste lines as sugary grapes for example.
Finally, when it comes to the "of which sugars value" obtainable from food labels on many products, YOU and I wear one such label every day of our lives which we write in our own long hand. Mine is low but needs still lowering. If you follow my advice maybe you'll be lucky and score low and stay low.
What are you going to do with all the spare cash you have squirrelled away having followed the steps in this little blog? with all your new energy minus sugar lethargy? with your radiant complexion rid of the dreaded "sugar face"?
Potential Answers: Buy healthy Deli items or diamonds; train for a half marathon run; remove the filters and shoot an exhibition of new you selfies.
Once you've hit that magic clinical test figure there will be no looking back. It can be done in around 12 weeks but I would, I have to admit, be dishonest if I maintained it is an easy process. Thank you so much for reading my blog. Now, it's over to you to be a grade A patient with a brand new healthy sugar level and, perhaps, jingling pockets.
DISCLAIMER: This web log is not intended to discredit or undermine any professional medical treatment. Readers are invited to consider the guidance and act on it responsibly as existing patients under official supervision. The advice is based on two medical HbA1c data readings [97 falling to 72 three months later] of a male patient aged 58 years. The patient achieved the sugar level improvement under the supervision of a portfolio of NHS Doctors prescribing medication which included Metformin and Alogliptin.
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