March is National Nutrition Month, an educational campaign focusing on the significance of physical fitness as well as eating nourishing meals. So it's a good time to further tweak your diabetes way of eating to best fit your goals for your diabetic health. Here is a detailed overview of Dietary Approaches in Diabetes Management. This … Continue reading March – Approaches to Diabetes Management
Recipes and Meal Planning
Once you have developed a representative list of "safe foods" for YOU by "Eating to Your Meter" you can now create and/or collect recipes that contain only those foods. (If you have forgotten or don't know how to eat to your meter, please click on the above link.) Recipes You can start with recipes from … Continue reading Recipes and Meal Planning
Eat to Your Meter
"Eating to Your Meter" is perhaps the ONE most important strategy you can employ! What it means is that you will determine what food(s) you can eat that will not spike your blood glucose (and, thus, your insulin levels) by careful testing with your blood glucose meter. When you want to test for a specific … Continue reading Eat to Your Meter
Portion Control – Law of Health #5
NOTE: Portion control is added to the Essential Habits you have established: mastering use of your blood glucose meter, drinking an optimum amount of water for you, eliminating all sugar, eating non-starchy whole-food vegetables instead of processed foods, and a having a daily exercise regimen. I would like to suggest that real temperance for a diabetic is “portion control.” You … Continue reading Portion Control – Law of Health #5