I spent 4 years in my 20s losing weight (90 pounds) to reach a healthy 175 to 180 pounds (I’m 6 feet tall), so I was a little dismayed when, at 30 years old, I was told that my blood sugar levels were very close to pre-diabetes, which is also known as impaired glucose tolerance.
Immediately, I turned to diabetes support groups to find answers on how to prevent the onset of pre-diabetes and how to live with it should my next blood test show that I had it.
It isn’t hard today to find diabetes support groups thanks to the Internet. A simple Google search will bring up a plethora of diabetes support forums aimed for people with the disease, family members who want more answers, or those like myself who are faced with the prospect of managing diabetes if conditions don’t improve.
I learned the following are risk factors for pre-diabetes, or impaired glucose tolerance (the situation I was very nearly in)