Got my quarterly labs back. A1c went from 5.4 to 5.7 across eight months. Weight is down 61 pounds, which is the variable that's supposed to push that number the other direction, so now my brain is treating this as a system with a leak somewhere.
Inputs I can actually see: I dropped lifting for six weeks after a minor injury, sleep average slid from 7:10 to 6:20, and breakfast quietly became a granola situation. None of those are diabetes. All of them are knobs I can turn before the next draw.
Not asking anyone to read my labs for me. Mostly curious whether other people watched A1c wobble during a heavy loss stretch and had it settle once the obvious variables came back online, or whether that number just has its own schedule.