So, a couple of weeks ago, I went to the doctor and he told me that the results of my blood test indicated that I had diabetes. Not a nasty case, just Type II, pretty much the minimum where the doctors nod and say "yup, that's actually diabetes" instead of "yeah, that's close to diabetes". Immediately I got prescriptions for a glucose testing kit and metformin, the basic let's-see-if-this-works anti-insulin-resistance drug. I also made a few lifestyle changes (which is a nice way of saying "reduce carb intake, get back to the gym").

Looks like it's effective. My blood sugar dropped, within a couple of days, right into the "ideal" zone and stayed there (though of course it's likely that part of that is because I'm not giving it a whole lot of carbs to work with, heh.) In fact, sticking to the "recommended" amount of carbs per meal leaves me with post-meal numbers which are in the ideal range for fasting, so I'm probably overdoing it a little... Feeling pretty good, though. And in the intervening two weeks, I've also dropped 15 pounds.

Downside is, this isn't one of those things where you deal with it for a few weeks and then it goes away. I'll pretty much need to stay off the grain train for a while, at least assuming I don't continue to lose a pound a day for a while. Tricky that, in the land of "every meal comes with two scoops rice and one scoop mac"...

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