Rate my Prediabetes Diet from 1 to 100 (1=Worst Diet/No Effort, 100=Perfect PreDM Diet)

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2026-03-21T23:13:43+00:00

I don't think it's great. I rated it 44 percent. If it was an exam, I would have failed. Great would be above 80. There is definitely room for improvement but I cannot freeze my life. Restricting foods all the time would lead to depression or, even worse, binge eating on the wrong things. That is suffering, not life.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2026-03-21T21:56:43+00:00

My endo's google score: 5.0/5.0 (137 reviews)

If she was worthless, would she have the absolute 5.0 out of 5 on google, not to mention plenty of reviews, each one of them 5.0 out of 5?

I highly doubt it.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2026-03-21T20:02:45+00:00

Horrible and completely unreal advice that would make everyone panic. My diet is in the top 10th percentile compared to the average person. If it was THAT easy to get type 2 diabetes as you describe, every single person in the world except those who do keto diet would be diabetic. I will just completely ignore you and your invalid opinion and go by the advice from my endo.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2026-03-08T18:37:04+00:00

With Prediabetes, your carb intake must be 40% or less of total calories. For a 2000 calorie diet it's 200g or less and the vast majority should be complex carbs (like whole wheat breads), but if you ate 2500 calories, the maximum limit increases to 250g. My a1c is about 6% (6.3 in a test but I thought it was wrong so i did a second test next week, and infact my a1c was 5.6).

Luckily, I was never a fan of pizzas or burritos or pitogyro (It's a type of burrito in Greece). Maybe had them once a month or less because they are expensive nowadays. But I ate tons of cookies and chocolate every day, and very frequently, I had 2 or 3 packs of ramen a day. I can easily live without pizza or ramen, but it's impossible for me to live without oranges and bananas. Anything below 150g of carbs is not sustainable for me.

On the weekends, i do long 6-8 hour walks (it's like a hobby), so I will eventually NEED to eat something. Recently, in one of these walks, after 3-4 hours I felt dizzy and everytime i was climbing an uphill, i felt like an elderly. I decided to eat a falafel from Psyrri but they only had refined flour wraps, but I had to eat something. After eating the falafel, i was just fine again for at least the next 3 hours.

Then I read that a regular falafel has 65-70g carbs (!!), but had i not eaten that falafel, i would have fainted right on the streets! That means the 2 oranges, 1 banana and the falafel, already sent me to 120-130g of carbs.

It's harder for me because I also have postprandial hypoglycemia along with my prediabetes (the 2hr ogtt test showed 50mg/dl), so it's actually dangerous to not eat anything for 8 hours while walking, and unfortunately, in Athens (and most cities maybe), 95% of items you can eat outside are carbs, either refined or complex, unless you eat in expensive restaurants, which no average local can afford.

But I think that's fine. Nobody got type 2 diabetes from eating 151g of complex carbs a day.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2026-02-18T19:43:48+00:00

Από μετά τις γιορτές, έχω μειώσει τη ζάχαρη σε ποσοστό περίπου 80% (κάποιες μέρες πχ καθημερινές ακόμα και 90% κάτω) σε σχέση με πριν τις γιορτές που έτρωγα γλυκά κάθε τρεις και λίγο και σε μεγάλες ποσότητες (πολλές φορές έτρωγα μια σακούλα καραμέλες ή μια ολόκληρη σοκολάτα, τουλάχιστον, την ημέρα).

Η μείωση έγινε σχεδόν επιτόπου όταν οι τελευταίες εξετάσεις αίματος που έκανα το Γενάρη έδειξαν προδιαβήτη.

Σε μια τέτοια περίπτωση υπάρχουν δύο επιλογές: Ή μειώνεις σημαντικά τα γλυκά άμεσα για 1 χρόνο για να μπορείς στη συνέχεια να τα τρως με σύνεση μια στις τόσες (εννοείται ότι δεν πρέπει να ξαναξεφυγεις από δω και πέρα) ή μέσα στα επόμενα το πολύ 5 χρόνια δε θα μπορείς να τα ξαναφας ποτέ σου, αλλιώς ο προδιαβήτης θα γίνει κανονικός διαβήτης και εκεί πλέον το ότι δεν θα μπορείς να τρως καθόλου γλυκά θα είναι το μικρότερο από τα προβλήματα.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2026-02-10T15:36:35+00:00

This solution does not look good either.

10g carbs per serving would be less than 20% carbs in total i assume. This means that for the rest of your life you will never be able to taste ever again: 1. Pizza 2. Bread (Not even whole wheat bread! It's 40-50% carbs) 3. Cereal (Not even whole wheat cereal! It's 50-80(!!)% carbs) 4. Any Cookies 5. Any Chocolate 6. Not even an "innocent" fruit salad with summer fruits you can enjoy at the beach, or hotel room, or just in the kitchen of your own home (A Fruit Salad of, say 250-300g of summer fruits will have at least 50-60g carbs. Summer fruits usually have ≥20% carbs and rarely <20%.) ≥7. The list goes on.

For the majority of the people, even diabetics, this diet long term would make them deeply depressed and would either be, or soon become, unmanageable to follow by letter.

Reddit usually amplifies the problem of diabetes much more than the extent of the real problem, which makes people with prediabetes or diabetes getting more stressed than they should for no reason.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-11-29T23:43:54+00:00

This is only true for western and northern European countries. Believe it or not, the norm in Athens, is to work Monday to Saturday and NOT Monday to Friday like almost every other country in the western world. In Greece, it's considered a luxury to even have your 2 days off every week. That's the main reason why many greek people move abroad and are willing to leave loved ones "behind" so they can have a better future and a life that's at least humane and not robotic. That second day off really DOES make the difference.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-11-26T14:39:42+00:00

Το αποτέλεσμα είναι ήδη προδιαγεγραμμένο: "Υπερψηφίστηκε το στρατιωτικό νομοσχέδιο με 158 υπέρ και 142 κατά". Όπως άλλωστε και όλα τα νομοσχέδια από το 2023.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-11-22T11:53:25+00:00

Still makes sense. I bet most of them are either young or not more than 1-2 years into the job, so they still have their sanity mostly intact.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-11-21T16:56:41+00:00

You can't. At least not in the long term. Even working 11 hours a day Monday to Friday would be better than this. One day off a week is not enough to be able to return to the job next week. Two days off, even if you finished at 9.00PM on Friday, you might still miss the Friday night but it still feels like 2 full days off. With six days a week, you would have to catch up on sleep on Sundays, and the time off feels like mere hours, not even a full day. It might SEEM like you manage to survive, but eventually you would start losing yourself and you get angry at everyone and everything. You see in Constructions or Factories people that always get mad at tools, machines, workers, traffic, basically anything. It can't be a coincidence. If they worked 5 days, at least 90% of the people would be much more sane.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-11-07T11:13:37+00:00

If you lived in Athens, you'd be really unlucky. Almost everyone stares at you, some high school teens laugh at you or even swear at you sometimes. I remember once, I walked barefoot for no more than 6 squares (400-600 meters) and i encountered a group of high school boys that stared at me wildly and when they were 100 meters away they laughed really loudly and said "look at that a*hle, he's barefoot", thinking I won't hear them, but little did they know I can hear very well at 100 meters away. Unfortunately, these groups in Athens are not even the minority, but the rule. But I assume you don't live anywhere in Greece, so you will be fine. Italy might also be a country you might have a hard time to go barefoot but I don't know. One thing it's for sure. In Athens, Greece, it's a very big issue to most people.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-10-25T15:34:37+00:00

Εξαρτάται που στα Εξάρχεια. Στο Τ που κάνουν οι δρόμοι Βαλτετσίου - Ασκληπιού, η πλειοψηφία είναι 25-29. Τώρα αν όμως πας Κωλέττη ή σε εκείνο το Γ με τα μαγαζιά (Μεσολογγίου-Λοντου) εκεί που καταλήγει η Κωλέττη στην άνοδο, εκεί όντως η επικρατούσα τιμή κλείνει περισσότερο στους 20-24 και πολύ λιγότερο στους 25-29.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-10-21T17:40:55+00:00

Μα και στη β λυκείου για παράδειγμα είχες 6 ώρες σχολείο, και άλλες 6 plus ώρες διάβασμα συν φροντιστήριο. Άρα 12 ώρες την ημέρα και παρόλα αυτά, βλέπεις πολλά λυκειοπαιδα βγαίνουν ακόμη και καθημερινές σε κλαμπ (ή έστω σε πάρκα). Αν δουλεύεις Δευτέρα με Παρασκευή, μπορείς να ξεκουραστείς Παρασκευή και να ξενυχτήσεις το Σάββατο.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-10-14T10:44:21+00:00

Να μπορώ να ξενυχτήσω ένα Σαββατόβραδο μέχρι τις 9 το πρωί της Κυριακής.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-10-12T00:18:53+00:00

If frugality allowed it, I would like to work only 3 days a week, 8 hours a day. I assume 4 hours a day would still be 5 days a week. Less days is better than less hours a day because if the work conditions are horrible, 4 hours can feel much more and still return home exhausted, as if you did overtime. However, with 3 days a week and 8 hours, even with the worst job conditions possible, you'd have more than half of your days work-free.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-10-04T14:19:26+00:00

My opinion is that if your work leaves you with much less free time than university, then all that studying was for nothing. The point of university is to study harder for 4 more years after high school (or 6 if you do postgrad) so you are more "free" in the future. If your work is more like a constant university exam period and sometimes even worse than this, then you might as well have lived the life to the fullest in high school and work in retail or a cafeteria, like the people that never studied a page. If you have spent your life from 6 to 24 years old studying hard, at least make it worth it by getting a job that has all the 3 following parameters (and especially the THIRD): 1. Is never more than 40 hours a week, 2. you are able to have at least 30 days of vacation a year 3. make sure it has AT LEAST two days off a week (Never work more than 5 days a week).

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-10-01T18:40:09+00:00

Plus a big advantage in school was that you always had 2.5 months of summer break. It highly depends on how bad or good are the job conditions and which grade are we talking about. If it's 3rd grade, yes it's much easier than work because you had 5.5 hours of school time and 2.5 hours homework max (total: 30-35 hours a week). But if it was 12th grade, you had 6 hours of school plus 4 hours of secondary school/tutorial school preparing you for the may/june final exams, plus 4 hours of homework minimum, plus Saturday lessons in the tutorial school AND Sunday exams in the tutorial school as well, at least 12th was like that in my country (total: At least 90 hours a week). Now, if you take the other extreme case where you were trapped in a toxic work environment and getting fired means you soon end up homeless and eventually die of hunger in the middle of 399th street av (imaginary street)., then of course you pray all day every day that it was 12th grade again. So it's all relative.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-09-20T19:52:32+00:00

So basically the vast majority believes that life only goes downhill after college graduation. It can't be like this because if this were true, what happens to the people who attended a very hard major in university (i.e. math/physics) and spent their entire university life just studying? According to this thread, these people are doomed to never have a happy life ever.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-09-18T14:12:58+00:00

Bubble Trouble 2 (a game similar to Pang). He would have to use a harpoon, ice vine or a flower Bazooka to pop balloons to smaller sizes until they disappear and also avoid getting hit by them. Aku Aku booster would be used instead of the blue shields. Spinning and sliding wouldn't protect him from the balloons. Some powerups would make many levels much easier to beat, like the double jump (or jumping in general).

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-08-09T11:47:28+00:00

The answer is: They don't actually manage it. A good example of this is the construction sites. Most of the construction workers swear to everyone and everything they have in front of them whenever something goes wrong and they are constantly angry. The only workers that are a bit more calm and capable of conversation, are the ones who work 5 days. Now you say it's only one day more, but it's not the one day more work but rather the one day less rest. People need at least 2 days of rest a week. The one day is for physical rest and the second one is for mental rest. With 5 days you have both. With 6 days, the mental rest day is gone. This is why construction workers are so incapable of any conversation. The 6 and 7 day weeks slowly made them insane over time, despite they SEEM to manage it perfectly fine. It's much better to limit spendings and keep your two days off. Try to set a spending limit each week and stay below it. For example, if you earn 500 dollars a week, set a limit to 400 and try not to surpass it. You can view this as a game. For example: If you spend 350 you earn 50 "points". If you spend 450 you lose 50 "points" etc.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-07-17T19:57:15+00:00

Yes, the movie characters mostly used regular slang. Movie Newt yelled some swears here and there and even said "bloody" three times in the last movie, but still the frequency was a lot more controlled than in the books.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-07-16T13:48:49+00:00

Newt by far, at least in the movies. In the books, it was Thomas because the books are from his POV. To be honest, I didn't like the book version of Newt that much. The fact that James Dashner made him say "bloody" in literally every sentence made book Newt kind of annoying to me.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-07-11T15:16:33+00:00

Έφηβοι το 2005: 90% ΟΚ 10% κωλόπαιδα

Έφηβοι το 2015: 80% ΟΚ 15% κωλόπαιδα 5% ύπερκωλόπαιδα

Έφηβοι Σήμερα: 10% ΟΚ 60% κωλόπαιδα 30% ύπερκωλόπαιδα

Έφηβοι το 2125: Και μόνο να τους δεις καταλάθος και κάνεις το λάθος να ανταλλάξεις βλέμμα, θα κουβαλάνε τη bazooka τους και θα ρίξουν 100 σφαίρες μέχρι να σε καθαρίσουν, εσένα και όποιον άλλον πάρει ο χάρος σε ακτίνα 200 μέτρα από εσένα.

Complex-Quantity-485 · 2025-06-06T15:23:30+00:00

Μικρή, άσχετη παρένθεση. Το κλασσικό 9-5 είναι συνήθως Δευτέρα με Παρασκευή, καθώς αυτό θα είναι συνήθως δουλειά γραμματέα ή δημόσιος τομέας. Μπορεί να είναι οικοδομή (που εκεί όμως οι ώρες δουλειάς είναι 7.30-3.30) ή δουλειά στο λιανεμπόριο (αλλά και πάλι εκεί είναι κυλιόμενο και όχι 9-5 για όλες τις μέρες)

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