How to Eat to Manage Diabetes

How to Eat to Manage Diabetes

I’m felicia derose and i’m, going to share a few of my favorite tips on how to manage diabetes through food. If you’re newly diagnosed with diabetes and you feel like you already have a busy schedule, trust me, i understand i had a busy life before diabetes came in and was like hold up everything else.

Everything else comes second to diabetes and so oftentimes as busy as my world is. I have to remember that, yes, i’m packing. My daughter’s, snacks for school, but i also need to pack my snack right, like she can’t, get a snack packed for her.

If mommy’s, not here when it comes to a diabetic diet, i don’t use the word diet. It’s, a meal plan. It’s, an option there’s, the plate method, the glycemic index and carb. Counting the plate method is the simplest one.

The plate is nine inches. Half of it is vegetables, 25 is the carb and then 25 is protein. That makes the plate. Then there’s. Carb counting carb counting is about figuring out how many carbs are in each food.

Then there’s a glycemic index. This one is a little bit challenging, but because i love cherries and i love grapes, i had to figure out how many grapes, if they’re green grapes, purple grapes, they all have a different level of sweetness.

There are these things that are on my i don’t eat that anymore list, and i make sure that i don’t bring them home. When i go grocery shopping, i read the labels. I’m constantly, like reading the food label and trying to figure out how much of this item can i have that fits into my 45 grams of carbs that i eat per meal, a tip for you when you go grocery shopping is to shop On the outside, where there’s fresh foods before you go inside the lines where you have packaged foods, so if you start on the outside and you have your protein, then you have your vegetables by the time.

You look at your cart. It’s, pretty much full, so there’s, less room for canned food or packaged foods, and these kinds of things. If i’m in a restaurant that has a menu, i first look at the appetizers, like how many carbs are in these appetizers.

If there’s, an app available that can tell me the amount of carbs in that meal great if the menu has it printed on there even more fantastic, i always view dessert as it’s. My entire card count for the meal, so if i want to have something like dessert, i’ll end up with a salad.

Whenever there is a buffet. I scan the buffet first because what i found is that people tend to put the heavy carb foods at the end. So if you don’t scan and you start off and you take some carbs for an appetizer section and then you move on down and then you have carbs for the meal by the time you get to the end where the dessert is or The fruit or something like this, you’re out of cards.

So when i’m carb counting, i’m, not depriving myself of any carbs. I’m, exchanging the carbs, so i’m. Exchanging bread for rice, i’m, exchanging potatoes for pasta. I can eat it all, but in moderation, sometimes i get the diabetes management right.

Some days are smooth sailing and then there are other days where i’m, like it just didn’t pan out perfectly today. Why in the world did i eat that chocolate chip cookie last night, and i’m just trying not to beat myself up trying to remind myself that diabetes is hard and i don’t and i don’t need To ruin my entire day and in those times i just have to say one day is not the end of the world.

So if you mess up breakfast, you have lunch. If you mess up lunch, you have dinner. If you mess up breakfast lunch and dinner in that day, you have the next day to get it right, so that’s constantly. What i’m, telling myself, i have another opportunity to get it right and i’m gonna get it right the next time.