Finally posting after a few months of lurking

Welcome. The A1c drop in 16 weeks is solid. My fasting glucose lagged my A1c by about 3 months too.

Your sleep at 6.5h might be the variable. When I got to 7.5h, my morning numbers finally moved.

Anyone use aCGM or just fingersticks? The dawn phenomenon thing confused me until I saw the overnight curve.

The waist and trigs data are more telling than one fasting number. Mine stalled at 104 for almost 8 weeks before dropping.

I disagree htat fasting glucose is the main marker early. A1c and trigs moving that much says a lot.

What did you change first? I’m 6 weeks in and my fasting is still 112.

Not the OP, but I started with evening walks after dinner. Fasting went from 108 to 99 over a month.

Evening walks helped me too, but only when I stopped eating after 8pm. The late snack was my issue.

That late snack point is real. I tracked it and my 7am numbers were 8-10 points higher after late carbs.

Can u share what your sleep tracker shows for deep sleep? Mine drops when fsating glucose rises.

I had a similar intro post here two years ago: 41M, A1c 5.9, fasting stuck around 108. What actually helped me understand it was separating stress and sleep from food. My fasting lgucose would spike after poor sleep even on perfect meals. I started tracking a simple 1-10 stress score and sleep hours beside my morning reading. After 10 weeks the correlation was obvious. Not saying that's your cause, but the fasting number can be a stress/liver signal more than a food signal. Your trig drop suggests you're on the right track.

Interesting. I never thought of fasting as a stress signal. My job stress weeks definitely show higher AM numbers.

The trig drop from 210 to 140 is great. That usually tracks with less refined carbs and more movement.

What was your fasting insulin? My A1c was okay but insulin was 19, which explained a lot.

Quick general data point, since it comes up a lot: 18 back in January, 11 at the last check. And fasting glucose? Still parked at 105. So yeah — lag. The part people forget is that these markers don't move on the same schedule. One drops and the other just sits there looking like nothing's happening. Common surprise, and it's exactly why comparing one stretch of labs to somebody else's is a trap.

The 103-107 range for six weeks is annoying, but it's not a failure. My plateau broke after I added 2x/week zone 2.

I’d be curious what your post-dinner readings look like versus morning. Morning is the last thing to change for me. I spent 12 weeks focused on fasting, then a friend told me to watch the 1-hour and 2-hour post-meal numbers instead. That showed which meals spiked me. Once I adjusted those, my fasting finally came down about 6 weeks later. Not saying that's universal, but the morning number was a rearview mirror for me, not the steering wheel.

This thread is making me want to log sleep and stress next to my morning glucose. Thanks for sharing the specifics.

Welcome, and keep posting. The 4-inch waist loss is the kind of data that keeps me motivated.