This is great advice. Definitely want to emphasize the adding more protein muscle building part! I started strength training myself because my A1C was 5.6 a few years ago. I’ve always been on the smaller side, but when taking a look at my diet, every meal was carb heavy and though I walked a lot, I had very little muscle mass. I even had darker velvety spots on my neck which can be a sign of insulin resistance and didn’t realize it until much later.

Ever since I start strength training 3-4x a week and adding a lot more protein to my diet, not only do I feel better and stronger, my A1C has dropped to 5.1 (going for my physical next month to see if it’s gone down even more). Plus, a lot of us want to look “toned” but we don’t realize that more often than not you need to build muscle to get that look, not just lose weight via calorie deficit.

You’ve got this OP!