Don’t assume that a normal fasting glucose test (what is measured when having blood work) entails that you are not insulin resistant, because that test measures only blood glucose, not blood insulin.  The abnormally high level of insulin has caused the blood glucose to be within the normal range.  Since insulin level is not measured, only when the prediabetes has progressed to an advance state does it show up in either fasting glucose or the glucose tolerance tests as a high level of glucose.  “There is a 50% risk over 10 years of progressing to overt diabetes” Wikipedia.  The three strongly-associated signs of insulin resistance are the steady yearly gain in weight, inability to keep weight off, and deep abdominal fat.  About one-third of who are not overweight are insulin resistant.  The literature calls such people “TIFO” for thin on inside, fat on outside.  These people have 2-3 extra pounds of liver fat, which makes them insulin resistant.  They avoid the steady gain of weight by taking off the excess pounds before the weight regulatory system has moved to normal the gained weight, this takes from 6 months to 2 years (I don’t of journal literature on this, only observational and personal experience, viz. it is how I stayed thin by taking the weight off within a couple months).

Remember it is not in Pharma’s or the food manufacturer’s financial interest to have people use dietary prevent/cure, thus physicians are not taught of the dietary fix—not in the US.  Instead they are taught eat less and exercise more, advice for those with long-term weight issue fails in over 95% of the time: they regain at least most of their weight by the 6^th year, and about half weigh more.  Please watch the documentaries listed in the links to confirm what I have stated.  For my pages on diet, I would start with these 3 links:  what has gone wrong (http://healthfully.org/rjk/id1.html), fasting is easy (http://healthfully.org/rjk/id5.html), and the concise dietary recommendations with 5 diets depending on goals http://healthfully.org/rc/id21.html

Feedback is always appreciated.

Your friend Jerry

*  Cholesterol and saturated fat scare is a scam by pharma and promoted by governments world-wide; learn about it by watching the Australian Broadcast corporation documentary at Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGIGXfIDaJo   and Par II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY4eTGMe-EY.  Low fat diet profits the food manufacturers who use cheap grains, polyunsaturated vegetable oil, hydrogenated vegetable oils, and sugars in their products.  What Dr. Miller lecture an audience at a medical college on which fats are healthful at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRe9z32NZHY   Again science and corporate spin dressed as science significantly diverge.