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Told You Have Prediabetes? Do This in Your First 90 Days | Nurse Explains

Nurse Ade, BSN, RN · October 23, 2026 · 20 min

Educational only, not medical advice. Talk to your own doctor, nurse practitioner or pharmacist. In an emergency, call 911.

What this video covers

Being told you have prediabetes is not nothing, and it is not a life sentence either. In this video, a heart nurse explains what your A1C, fasting blood sugar and glucose tolerance test numbers mean, who is at risk, the one skin sign to know, free Medicare diabetes screening, and why prediabetes matters for your heart. She also gives an honest look at what a large study found about prediabetes in older adults.

Then she walks through your first 90 days, step by step: your drinks, the diabetes plate method, walking after meals and building up to 150 minutes a week, the free Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program, a safe weight goal, sleep and smoking, and when to recheck your A1C. You will also hear about metformin and weight loss shots, five common prediabetes myths, the signs that prediabetes has turned into diabetes, and questions to ask your doctor.

Key points

• Prediabetes numbers: A1C, fasting blood sugar and the glucose tolerance test
• Who is at risk, the one skin sign, and free Medicare diabetes screening
• What a large study found about prediabetes in older adults
• Your 90 day plan: drinks, the diabetes plate method and walking after meals
• The free Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program and a safe weight goal
• Metformin, weight loss shots, 5 myths and signs it turned into diabetes

Chapters

1. 0:00 Told you have prediabetes?
2. 1:51 What prediabetes is: insulin resistance
3. 2:49 Prediabetes numbers: A1C, fasting, glucose test
4. 3:55 How common it is and the one skin sign
5. 4:43 Who is at risk for prediabetes
6. 5:39 Medicare diabetes screening
7. 6:14 Prediabetes in older adults: the honest truth
8. 7:22 Day 1 and 2: your numbers and your drinks
9. 8:29 Week 1: the diabetes plate method
10. 9:22 Weeks 2 to 4: walk after meals, build to 150 minutes
11. 10:42 Month 2: Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program and weight
12. 13:02 Month 3: sleep, smoking and recheck your A1C
13. 13:49 Metformin and weight loss shots
14. 15:32 5 prediabetes myths
15. 16:45 Signs prediabetes turned into diabetes
16. 17:14 Questions for your doctor and recap