Diet Is Not In My Vocabulary
I hate diets. I hate trying to stay on one. I do not put diet in my vocabulary, I am not committed enough to stay on a special diet, especially if I have to follow someones selected meal. For example, if a meal plan has grilled chicken, with capers, olive oil, and I have to go out and purchase foods I normally may not have in your pantry, that to me is a turn off, First of all it can be expensive and time consuming trying to gather every meal I would have to prepare for everyday, every week or however long I would be on it.
I know what I need to control, and that is my carbohydrate intake. I pretty much know what to watch out for. Eating complex carbs is what Diabetics needs; shoot that is what everyone needs. I only eat wheat bread, I do not eat a lot of brown rice since my family only likes white, so when I do consume white rice it is less then one serving. Also I do not buy processed meals. I and my husband cooks from scratch about 90% of the time. I will buy spaghetti sauce, and bread but I do not purchase tv dinners and boxed noodle dinners. My family do not mind wheat pasta so it can be prepared. I may eat french fries on occasion but it would be baked, Well anyway, what I am getting at is carbs is a Diabetic best friend and a Diabetic worst enemy. I am on an insulin pump and I have to calculate all the carbohydrates I will be eating at the time I program my pump. Just about any food has carbs in it; vegetables like carrots, even cabbage and celery has some carbs. Fruit is a good source of carbs they do not raise my blood level like candy or even bread.
Counting carbs can be hard. What if you do not know how much carbs you are eating in one setting? Say that you have a hearty wheat bread deli sandwich with all the fixing, potato chips and cole slaw, and you also have a diet drink (do not be fooled, diet do have carbs) and maybe eat 3 bites of a pecan pie, how many carbs would you have eaten? If you calculate to little carb intake, you run the risk of having hyperglycemic. Which in easy terms is high blood level. And if you calculate to much carbs you run the risk of hypoglycemic, or low blood level. I am sensitive to insulin so if I add all the carbs that I will eat I do not want to over calculate or my blood level will drop quickly, and I mean quick, I do not want to have extremely low blood level or I may have an insulin reaction. I still get the symtoms of an insulin reaction, like being hot, confused, repeating sentences, tired and anxious, but I do not shake or sweat. And sometimes I may not have direct symptoms but I will have a slight metallic taste in my mouth. So you have to be confident in counting carbs as a Diabetic, that is very important.
I know what I need to control, and that is my carbohydrate intake. I pretty much know what to watch out for. Eating complex carbs is what Diabetics needs; shoot that is what everyone needs. I only eat wheat bread, I do not eat a lot of brown rice since my family only likes white, so when I do consume white rice it is less then one serving. Also I do not buy processed meals. I and my husband cooks from scratch about 90% of the time. I will buy spaghetti sauce, and bread but I do not purchase tv dinners and boxed noodle dinners. My family do not mind wheat pasta so it can be prepared. I may eat french fries on occasion but it would be baked, Well anyway, what I am getting at is carbs is a Diabetic best friend and a Diabetic worst enemy. I am on an insulin pump and I have to calculate all the carbohydrates I will be eating at the time I program my pump. Just about any food has carbs in it; vegetables like carrots, even cabbage and celery has some carbs. Fruit is a good source of carbs they do not raise my blood level like candy or even bread.
Counting carbs can be hard. What if you do not know how much carbs you are eating in one setting? Say that you have a hearty wheat bread deli sandwich with all the fixing, potato chips and cole slaw, and you also have a diet drink (do not be fooled, diet do have carbs) and maybe eat 3 bites of a pecan pie, how many carbs would you have eaten? If you calculate to little carb intake, you run the risk of having hyperglycemic. Which in easy terms is high blood level. And if you calculate to much carbs you run the risk of hypoglycemic, or low blood level. I am sensitive to insulin so if I add all the carbs that I will eat I do not want to over calculate or my blood level will drop quickly, and I mean quick, I do not want to have extremely low blood level or I may have an insulin reaction. I still get the symtoms of an insulin reaction, like being hot, confused, repeating sentences, tired and anxious, but I do not shake or sweat. And sometimes I may not have direct symptoms but I will have a slight metallic taste in my mouth. So you have to be confident in counting carbs as a Diabetic, that is very important.
Well for me I try to eat sensible in the morning, by eating complex carbs in the morning but that still did not work for me. My level would go down then I would drink juice of eat crackers and then I would forget to check myself and adjust my insulin pump and 20 minutes later my level goes sky high. So I ate half the complex carbs like a half of wheat bread and natural peanut butter. My endocrinologist told me that some fat and protein with carbs will help keep my blood level stable. I tried that and I was starving by mid morning, So I started thinking about high protein breakfast bars. These bars are not bought, but made with love. I love to cook and I love the bars that I make for breakfast, mid morning and my afternoon snack, The recipe is posted but I will give you a link "So good Healthy Snacks" I hope people will try and make them, They are easy to make, have a lot of good stuff in them and has very little of hard carbs; such as oatmeal and wheat bran flour. After a month of eating my meal replacement bars I have a consistent blood level and now I am replacing my lunch with a vegetable and fruit yogurt smoothy. And also drinking a breakfast smoothy with half of my breakfast bar. I do not feel hungry at all, all day. And again my blood level has been consistent. I do though eat a sensible dinner.
So in conclusion what do you eat to stay healthy or at least eat to keep your blood level in check? I am not on a diet I just changed the way I should consume my carbohydrates, so it will be friendly to my body and blood level. Eating complex carbs is not an options for me. I have to do it. I hope the way I eat now will help my battle of the bulge next.
So in conclusion what do you eat to stay healthy or at least eat to keep your blood level in check? I am not on a diet I just changed the way I should consume my carbohydrates, so it will be friendly to my body and blood level. Eating complex carbs is not an options for me. I have to do it. I hope the way I eat now will help my battle of the bulge next.