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Ans: I am not sure what us your height. 61 kg, even after losing weight, if it is within normal weight for your height, please do not worry.
Lets say, if your height is around 165 cm, or less, this is a good weight.
However, if you suspect some other health condition which is causing your weight loss, please consult a physician.

Ans: What you have indicated are blood sugar levels and HbA1c in a normal and healthy individual, who is not a diabetic person.

At least, for blood sugar levels, you dont have to worry.

As far as diet and physical activity is concerned, these benefits everyone. So, adopt and continue a healthy and active lifestyle.

There is a word of caution. Normal parameters on one aspect does not mean person may not have other health issues.
Having a hold of your health mean you need to take care of your health and be aware about all key parameters of health.

Ans: For providing advice on weight, I need to know your weight and BMI. However, as you can see in my responses to some of the previous queries, a dietary modifications is very personalised in case of Diabetes. Moreover, person with diabetes should take smaller meals rather than heavy few meals.
More importantly, I need to know your HbA1c and Fasting and PP blood sugar levels and other lipid parameters to comment about the sufficiency of anti diabetic medication you are taking.

Your schedule indicate that you seem to be doing intermittent or time restricted fasting. This has proven benefit as the VLCD or very low calorie diet. VLCD with around 800 Kilo Calories a day, is a standard of diabetes care in many country including the UK. However, please ensure that you are not developing hypoglycemia or low sugar levels.

Regarding weight reduction strategies and reversal/remission of diabetes, a more personalised discussion with a physician is needed.

Dr Chandrakant Lahariya
Senior Consultant Physician & Diabetologist
Centre for Health: The Speciality Practice, New Delhi

Ans: The level of blood sugar you have indicated are suggestive of diabetes mellitus type 2 and the metformin you are taking is clearly insufficient.

Ofcourse, need to have more dietary modifications and increased physical activity. Get body weight within normal range (please see previous answer if you wish to understand more).

Please do following:
1. A comprehensive blood test. Specially when people have diabetes, there are chances of high Bp, deranged lipid profile. and other blood parameter changes.
2. Please get HbA1c done along with fasting adn 2 hr after breakfast blood sugar levels.
3. Your medications need to be increased as currently, the sugar levels are high. There is a concept called, legacy effect. which essentially mean a tight and early control in blood sugar results in better diabetes outcome in long run. The Hba1c should be less than 7, preferably around 6.5% to reduce the possibility of macro and microvascualr complications of diabetes.
4. Do charting of your blood sugar level for some time, with Glucometer. May consider CGMs (Continuous Glucose monitoring), which provides 14 day reading for every five minutes of sugar level in once body. This may help a physician to suitably modifiy your medication.
5. Visit a physician with above set of information.

Best wishes,
PS: In such queries, mentioning age, duration of diabetes, BMI/Body Fat, height, weight and BP can help in providing more personalised information.

Ans: Shishir,
Your age and other comorbidities/health issues you may have are not clear to me. How much you weigh and your height etc are not known).
However, please remember that anti-hypertensive medications are always supportive to lifestyle modification. Please do following:
1. Get a comprehensive blood test done which should include lipid profile, kidney function test and thyroid profile etc.
2. Ensure your weight is within normal range: for male, ideal weight is height in cm- 100 . for example, if you are 170 cm then your weight should be 170-100 or 70 kg. Thus enusre you have weight in normal range.
3. Do lifestyle modifications. eat healthy- fruits and vegetables, reduce salt in diet and walk at least 30 min per day for atleast 5 days a week. No more than 2 days of break.
4. Monitor BP twice in a day and prepare a chart for 10 days.

Based upon this information, a personalised lifestyle modification can be done.

With this information, and for your routine check up, visit your physician on regular basis.