Do You Follow A Specific Diet To Help With Diabetes?
I have been controlling my diabetes by diet alone for nearly two years. I focus on protein adding low-carb veggies like green leafy vegetables, zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumber, radishes, etc. I don't eat until 11 or 12, even though I often wake at 6 am. I avoid all snacking. I joke I am racist, avoiding white things like flour, sugar, rice and potatoes.
No I don't follow a diet. I have type 2 Diabetes. I spent 2 months documenting what I ate daily, then I cut out all things sweet, (cakes, chocolate, sweets etc). I cook for a family of 4 so, I find you cant really diet. We buy and eat fresh savoury meals all the time. I find some foods I can eat and others not so as they bring on symptoms like Diarrhea, thrush etc etc. I have found I can eat pizza, pasta, white rice, potatoes with no problems. I do exercise in the form dancing, yoga, indoor cycle 4 times per week. I have lost weight and dropped a dress size and still going. So I recon I am doing something right. My sugar levels are stable as long as I eat only what I can.
My diet is:
- stop eating things with added sugar.
- drink coffee and tea without sugar
- try to keep the carbs to a minimum for the day.
- don't have carbs in the morning
- When the cravings for carbs or something sweet are so bad, I snack on fruits or if I will go for sugar free biscuits or chocolate.
- The trick is to make sure that I have at home enough snacks that are sugar free or those chocolate that have less than 1.8mg of sugar (you need to read the label). I also snack on peanuts...
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I follow primarily the Mediterranean diet, or Bright Line Eating (BLE) -- both emphasize a lot of fresh fruits and vegetable, and little to no junk foods or fast-foods. I have whole grains at breakfast for my carbohydrates for the day -- but may have a bit more later with lunch. Lots of protein. I'm so used to this that I don't usually have any cravings for high-sugar desserts or snacks. I literally will reach for an apple or other fruit instead of a cupcake or candybar. It took me a couple of years to reach this ease with my food selections -- they're automatic now. I recognize that I have times that may be more demanding, and that it's also not so easy for other people.
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My Wife Is Starting To Concern Me Of Late,she Has Quite A Few Hypos, She Can't Really Handle Heavy Meals ,rice Meat ,fish Sometimes Is Okay,