#1
Hi everyone, I’m Sarah, 43, a school nurse in Ohio and mom to two teens. I’ve been tracking my fasting glucose since January — it was creeping up and I was tired of the all-or-nothing cycle with food. Down about 15 pounds too, and my clothes fit better. But my last fasting glucose came back a little higher than it was before, which freaked me out. Anyone else see that early on? I’m mostly here to learn, compare notes, and not obsess over every single number.
#2
Welcome. Tracking the same waist numbers here, about 5 weeks behind your timeline, and fasting glucose on the last labs went 98→103. Following.
#3
Could be sleep. My glucose is 7-8 pts higher after a 5h ngiht. You said you’re at 7h tho.
#4
Not saying it’s this, but fasting glucose is one snapshot. A1c and post-meal checks told a different story for me.
#5
How were you fasting? 12h vs 14h changed mine by 5 points. Hydration too.
#6
The HDL drop and trigs drop together is interesting. When I lost 20 lb, my HDL dipped for a few months then came back up as my weight stabilized. My fasting glucose also rose during active loss, especially in a bigger deficit. I only had 3 data points, but A1c stayed flat. I added A1c, fasting insulin, and a 10-day CGM, and that told a cleaner story than one fasted draw. Not a doctor, just an n=1 guy. I’d also look at stress and training load as variables before I changed much.
#7
Deficit size? Mine went up when I was eating 500 under and trainnig hard.
#8
Same. My fastde glucose was higher the morning after heavy squats. Recovery load matters.
#9
Wait, trigs went down and HDL went down? That happened to me on low fat. Added fat back and HDL recovered.
#10
Low fat was my guess too. My HDL tanks when carbs are high and fats nuder 40g.
#11
I’m not convinced fat intake is the whole story. Rapid weight loss can temporarily lower HDL. Mine dropped 6 pts then rebounded.
#12
Caffeine is underrated. Four cups before a fasted draw spike smine.
#13
What about sodium and water? I got a 104 fasted after a salty dinner and poor sleep. Retested at 96.
#14
Retesting is smart. One fasted draw after a hard week is noisy. I’d track morning glucose at home for 2 weeks.
#15
The waist drop is great. 40→36.5 in 12 weeks is fast. Maybe your body is just stressed from the pace.
#16
This thread is useful. I’m 41 and started at 232. My 16-week cut had glucose go 101→107, then back to 99 after I held weight for a month. Trigs and HDL followed the same lag. So it may be the loss phase, not the direction. I’d keep the strength data and not panic over one lab. A maintenance phase gave my numbers time to settle.
#17
Agreed — and the part people forget is that strength up, waist down, and trigs down all holding at once over 12 weeks is a genuinely solid stretch. Plenty of people get one of those and lose the others. Common surprise: week 12 isn't really the test, the maintenance week after it is — that's where things either hold or start drifting back. Worth a follow-up once that week's in the books.
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