Setting nutrition goals should be your first plan of attack while handling your diabetes responsibly. Eating right, and choosing variety over boredom includes fresh fruits and vegetables in season, dairy products low in fat, looking for whole grains in pasta and breads, and choosing from a variety of dried beans, fish, and turkey or other lean meats. Learn to use seasonings creatively.
Recently, a good friend lost over thirty-five pounds in about six weeks just by eating modest portions of vegetables, fish, chicken, or turkey, and drinking a protein drink every morning and noon before his meals. For the first time in over ten years his blood sugar was registering in the eighties and nineties instead of over 220. Losing weight was a real eye opener and his doctors celebrated with him.
Healthy food plans for diabetes will benefit everyone in the family. Choose foods that are family favorites and work with your diabetic cook books to develop weekly meals that are easy and practical, most menus call for foods that are inexpensive and readily available.
Pay attention to what you eat, how much at each sitting, and what time of day you eat. Don't overlook your water intake of at least eight glasses a day. Enjoy your food, eat at a slower pace than usual, and savor each bite.
Perhaps it has been too long that as a nation with plenty of everything we have forgotten that eating can be a celebration as well as a necessity.
With fast food places everywhere we look, it hardly takes a thought to dip in and pick up fries and a coke. Not only is food everywhere we look, we can eat 24/7. Diabetics CANNOT do that. The rest of us shouldn't either!
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