Q&A: I was just diagnosed with prediabetes. What’s the first step?
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Just got the prediabetes news and not sure what to do next? Jess walks you through the very first steps—without shame, overwhelm, or extreme diets. You’ll learn how to start tracking patterns, what simple food and lifestyle shifts to make, and why small changes (like breakfast and a 10-minute walk) can actually move the needle. Real results, real encouragement.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Diabetes Digital Podcast. This is Just Here, your co-host. And if you are new, |
| 0:06.6 | we are a group practice of dietitians who focus on nutrition counseling for people with diabetes, |
| 0:14.9 | pre-diabetes, PCOS, and everything in between. Now, today we are answering a question that we got on Instagram. This is a DM. And I thought it |
| 0:25.5 | would be good to answer this because it comes up so often. And I also see this everywhere online. |
| 0:31.6 | And unfortunately, I see a ton of misinformation. So the question is, I was just diagnosed with pre-diabetes. What is the first |
| 0:39.9 | step? Welcome to the Diabetes Digital Podcast. I'm Wendy. And I'm Jess, and we're best |
| 0:45.7 | friends, registered dieticians, and diabetes educators. Through our telehealth platform, |
| 0:50.6 | diabetes digital.co, we offer accessible and personalized virtual nutrition counseling for |
| 0:55.8 | people with diabetes and prediabetes. Visit diabetes digital.co, that's CO, to book your first |
| 1:02.1 | appointment. We accept insurance and offer affordable self-pay options. Now, let's get into today's |
| 1:07.2 | episode. So I think it's really important to start with understanding of what |
| 1:13.6 | pre-diabetes means. Because when I talk to clients, I'm often surprised to hear that they're not |
| 1:20.2 | really sure what it even means or what's happening in their body. Maybe their doctor didn't have time |
| 1:24.7 | to go over it with them or they said everything would be fine. |
| 1:28.1 | And I think it's important to just understand what's going on. |
| 1:30.7 | So pre-diabetes in a nutshell means that your blood sugar is higher than normal, but not quite high enough for a diabetes diagnosis. |
| 1:39.5 | So I like to think of pre-diabetes as a possible warning sign that, you know, your body's having a little |
| 1:44.9 | bit more of a harder time processing blood glucose. Maybe you're becoming more insulin resistant, |
| 1:50.0 | which means that that blood glucose that you need for energy is having a harder time getting into |
| 1:55.6 | your cells. But the nice thing about pre-diabetes is it's not a death sentence, it's not a life sentence, |
| 2:01.5 | it doesn't mean you're definitely going to develop diabetes. |
| 2:04.0 | It can just be a gentle nudge to kind of look at potentially what's going on. |
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