The End of Diabetes: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Diabetes

Since my prognosis with diabetes at the age of eleven, my own diet has changed dramatically. I regulate my current healthy weight with a huge diet/eating plan. If you do plan on losing more than about a stone in weight then I would visit your physician for more guidance on how to do this without risk.

I’ve had diabetes for 7 years now, but to tell you that how I maintain weight is ideal would be totally wrong of me. However, I can advise you to stick to my steps because I be aware of what works and what doesn’t. Before I really begin I must also say that I have been brought up by enormous parents who taught me to eat everything, and so I do! If there is something that you don’t like, there are loads of other diabetic recipes and thoughts that you will eat and appreciate.

I am a university student and I like to buy innovative and organic produce from where I live. I believe that this is important because it can be the most good for your body and contain more nutrients and vitamins than most supermarket produce. I like to basis food from my fortnightly farmers market in town, which sells astonishing meat and dairy produce and new in season fruit and veggies. This is one other important thing to remember, that eating fruit and veggies in their season means that they will taste superior as well as doing you good. I have a lot of impression from Western European cuisine (mainly France and Italy) as you will tell, but I do not profess to be a chef and everything is easy to make and extremely convenient.

I have read lots and lots of diet books and diabetic recipe/diet books, and I came to a conclusion that I think really works. I fused all the good things from the diets (but not from each diet) and sort of put together my own one. I call this my Juvenile Diabetes Healthy Diet!

The “rules” that I would lay down are as follows:

1. Cut back on snacks and then alter the type of snacks you eat.
Certainly my biggest downfall even even though it wasn’t really apparent to me. When I 1st started at University, I had little or no routine which meant that filling my day was problematic and popping into the kitchen for a snack, no matter how healthy it felt, was a regular occurence. This is one of the hardest things to do for some people, but establishing a large routine is essential to large diabetes care. The forms of snacks to be eating are unsalted nuts, dried unsweetened fruit, original fruit, innovative veggies (I really like a lot fresh red pepper and cucumber), dark chocolate (richer and nicer and you only crave 2 squares usually).

2. Cut back on white flour and clasp wholemeal carbs.
This is the most essential part of your diet, and the thing that can show the biggest augment in loss of weight. Some diets in fact jsut focus on this point, and are extremely successful. Wholemeal (especially stoneground wholemeal) is so good for you and has so much more flavour in it that switching is much simpler than you think. Most individuals are really surprised at the ranges you can get in you supermarket, again recollect that the bread that is best for you is the one that is freshest with least perservatives or added ingredients. Also, brown or basmati rice is grand with a lovely nutty texture. Wholemeal pasta is great and for your potatoes I would totally suggest the smaller new potatoes.

3. end drinking cocktails, begin drinking wine.
Cocktails are full of sugar, colourants and preservatives. As a student I have had loads of practice at going out and not drinking cocktails, so my drink of choice is Malibu and Diet Coke if I feel I have to drink something and I make it continue all night. I can then top up with Diet Coke (which has almost no sugar in it) and it looks as though I am drinking Malibu, who is to realize. If you are out at a restaurant, red wine is much better than anything else you can order, (except water of course!) and it has been well established that the anti-oxidants in red wine are great for keeping a healthy heart. The suggested amount is one glass a day with your evening meal.

4. Start cooking more fruit and veggies.
Fresh fruit and vegetables are a great way to get all the vitamins and minerals you need. And there are so many diverse ways in which to cook vegetables, but I find that raw is the best followed closely by steamed. Both of these ways protect all their natural goodness as well. I will stick to this post with another diabetes recipes post.

5. Drink more water.
I know you have heard folks say this many instances before, but the benefits of drinking more water are endless. A few guidance on how to get more water into your day are firstly to put bottles of water at all the places you go in the house or work. So keep one in your desk, on your desk, a glass in the kitchen, the bedroom, the sitting room, etc. Try and drink all these glasses up and you will be well on your way to 8 glasses a day. The trick is to add a glass each few days or so, if you try to drink all that water in one go you won’t be so inclined to drink 8 glasses again, faith me! Have a go, it’s amazing how great you will feel.

For further tips on living with diabetes, visit Juvenile Diabetes blogspot

This article was submitted by Alissa Carter, she is also owner & creator of the Prom dresses website.

The End of Diabetes: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Diabetes