Pre-diabetes is a condition that often occurs before the actual onset of type 2 diabetes. This condition is serious, and nothing that you should take lightly and simply shrug off. The condition may or may not cause you to have diabetic symtpoms. By diabetic symptoms, I mean:

1. An unquenchable thirst

2. Feeling very tired or sleepy

3. Running to the bathroom quite often (frequent urination)

4. Sores that don't heal well or never heal

5. Changes in your eyesight

Pre-diabetes is easily screened by your doctor in a simple blood test or blood draw. Any blood sugar level that is 100 to 125 fasting is considered pre-diabetes. For an even more accurate picture, most good doctors will have your glucose drawn a second time to see if it is the same. If that is the case, you do have pre-diabetes.

Once diagnosed with pre-diabetes, there are steps you can take to avoid becoming fully diabetic. Let me show you:

The first step is to lose weight if you are really overweight. Overweight and obesity causes many problems, and diabetes is one o them. You can easily become insulin resistant which means that the insulin you are making through the pancreas cannot get into your cells as it should to lower your blood glucose levels. Losing excess weight will definitely help the insulin circulation in those cells and lower your glucose levels.

Try some exercise, even 15 minutes of walking daily helps! Walking is good for those people that are insulin resistant! It helps to lower your blood sugar levels and gets your natural insulin circulating as it should. Calories are burned in at least 15 minutes of activity or better, as you hopefully work up your walking to one hour. That may take awhile, but some walking is better than no activity at all. It also helps to reduce weight. Try 30 minutes 5 days a week for walking,

Eat carbohydrates that are whole grains, (complex carbohydrates). These raise the blood sugar much more slowly as they take longer to digest. Carbohydrates that are refined cause the blood sugar to rise much quicker. Your whole grains come from foods such as wheat breads, whole grain oatmeals and cereals, english muffins that are whole wheat, whole wheat pastas, and foods like these. Some of your more refined sugars come out of sweets, fruit juices, sweetened colas, and some fruits such as some apples and cranberries will likely raise the blood sugar a lot. When planning your diet for carbohydrates, look at the glycemic index of foods which will tell you how fast your body will digest various carbohydrates, Those high in the glycemic index rate for example, will raise your blood sugars quite a bit.

Get a blood sugar meter and check your sugars once daily as a pre-diabetic person. If your numbers begin to creep up drastically especially if they start to rise out of the 140 bracket and beyond, see your doctor. It is probably time to start medications and likely you are developing diabetes. This is much too serious to take it lightly as I said here at the beginning of this article.

Diabetes is diagnosed at a fasting rate of 126 or more. And any random levels over 140 are definite causes for concerns. Diabetes causes so many problems if not watched and treated correctly. In fact, the stages of pre-diabetes have been known to bring on cardiac complications. Diabetes can cause heart disease, skin problems of various natures, kidney disease which is frequent in many diabetics as myself, eye diseases and blindness, and many other health problems.

If you or a loved one is having any time of diabetic onset, don't fool around with it, and take aggressive action. It is your life you are living. Diabetes does not need to ruin it!