need answers

[lushaboom_ragdoll]

ok here goes my history.. for the last year i have been working and i only ate 2 meals a day ... 7 am meal was one burrito and 6 pm meal was anything really.(these were my 2 meals everyday for past year).. i went to doctor 4 weeks ago to have a sugar test done because i was feeling sick alot at night and sometimes in mornings... my glucose test came out as 140 30 min after drink 202 at the hr mark 213 at the 2 hr mark and had 250 suagr in urine and at the 2 and a half hour mark it was 189. the doctor said i was pre diabetic and to test my suagr daily for month and stay to low carb diet and then come back... so i did...my sugars on the diet was very good did not get above 130 ... but i did trail off diet every now and then and my suagrs ranged from 133 to 188 2 and somsetimes 3 hrs after my meals... on the diet my fasting stayed 80's to 90's and on the days i did not eat a low carb dinner my sugar fasting next morning on 3 ocassions during the 4 weeks ranged 101 to 103 and i had 2 suagr fastings of 138 and 140 all on reg dinner diet.. i went back a month later which was yesterday and he did an a1c and came back and said i had no suagr problem since my a1c was 5.1 which was very normal..i asked him about the glucose test he said not to worry about it and not to sweat over my slightly high fastings in morning from my reg diet what my questioon is since i was not even eating normally and was actually undereating all the time could it have affected my a1c level test and made it show low as opposed to eating 3 meals a day of a a reg carb diet(not low carb)where it could have caught a problem with a1c better?

(a test i did at home) i noticed if i only ate those 2 meals my sugars stayed in the 70's and high 60's all day and if i ate reg melas  my suagrs would run high several hrs after and if i stayed on low carb diet suagrs never went over 130 after the one or 2 hr mark)

[BetaBuddy]

agreed!

[Pete919usa]

I understand your question, but I *think* the real question you are asking if whether or not you should be concerned about possibly having diabetes.  If you had fasting blood glucose readings of 138 and 140, then the answer is "yes"... and yes, your diet and eating habits certainly can have an effect on your lab tests.  But:  the A1C is essentially an "average" of the amount of glucose loaded on your blood cells over the past 3 months.  So, while it could be possible, I suppose, to have daily huge spikes and daily huge lows that would produce a "good/normal" result, I think you would have had more pronounced symptoms, and an A1C result of 5.1 sounds good (the 'normal range' depends on the lab doing the test).

Bottom line:  the best way to help prevent blood sugar issues is to eat a healthy diet with meals eaten at the same time each day (optimally several small meals a day).  It doesn't sound like you "need" to be on a low-carb diet, but lower-carb sounds like it works for your body, so just cut out the "bad" carbs (starches, white flour, minimize desserts and junk foods), up your intake of leafy green veggies and fiber, and keep an eye on your weight and as it sounds like you have a meter, keep testing and see what effect your diet/meal choices have on your blood sugar.

[lushaboom_ragdoll]

what my question is since i was not even eating normally in the first place and was under eating before i had the glucose test and got put on the low carb diet  could it have affected my a1c level test and made it show low as opposed to eating 3 meals a day of a a reg carb diet where it could have had a higher a1c reading