So, back in April I went for my annual "wellness" visit with the doc. My A1C has been in the low end of the prediabetic range for years. (Thanks mom! Grandma had gone blind from untreated diabetes back in the early 50's but lived another 20+ years and 5 out of 8 kids in mom's generation eventually were diagnosed with it including mom.) This visit my A1C was at 6.5, right on the cusp of a full blown diabetes diagnosis. So I decided to cut back carbs as much as possible and we'll be testing it again in 3 months. Previously breakfast was a bagel and cream cheese and lunch was normally a sandwich made with some sort of leftover from dinner the previous night or just the leftover dinner outright if it was something like pasta. Now I'm having plain yogurt with fresh fruit for breakfast and usually a salad for lunch. Dinner I'm still eating some carbs because SO just isn't willing to go full into the low carb diet thing and I'm not willing to deal with making two separate dinners every evening. We'll see how this plays out when I get my A1C checked again in early August after three months of this new diet. In the meantime it's become clear to me why a high carb diet is so common. Besides the fact that it's easy and tasty, it's also cheap. Replacing all those carb calories with non-carb stuff like cheese or meat to go on salad, or even the fresh veggies that go into salad, is more expensive than what I was eating before. I haven't gone through and tracked the numbers but I feel like my grocery budget has basically doubled because of this change. If it ends up helping my health I'm ok with that, but if I were struggling to make ends meet this would be a really tough situation.