steingar
Taxi to Parking
I got the "pre-diabetic" tag as well. They wanted to put me on metformin, but I refused, choosing diet and exercise instead. Got down from 6.4 to 5.4 within 25lbs and 6 months. Unfortunately, once you get that "pre-diabetic" tag, you're apparently stuck with it. It's BS, really, as the number at which they apply that tag varies from decade to decade.
Hate to say it, but B.S. it isn't. Diabetes is a threshold disease, involving both genes and environmental factors. A combination of them can put you into the threshold or keep you out. This is in contrast to diseases like CF where you either are or aren't.
Sorry your answer is so difficult to get at Tom. Folks aren't airplanes, and don't act like them. Folks are complicated, and often poorly described in numeric terms.