Managing Diabetes and Your Diet

A diabetic meal plan isn’t anything out of the earth meal plan. It is just a balanced healthy meal program that diabetic patients can follow to keep their blood sugar levels under control. It will also assist you in keeping your weight issues under control.  However, all diabetic meal plan/plans aren’t the same as the kind of diabetes from which you suffer, daily activity and nutritional needs will vary from person to person.

Diabetic meal plan that you should follow

You have to cut back on or eliminate from your diet high calorie food items like full fat ice creams, cakes, cookies, chips, oily, buttery, gravy laden food items, deep fried food items, restaurant food and, fast food like pizza and cup noodles and junk food. One of the leading causes of obesity and diabetes among adolescents is this addiction to junk food and eating out.

Even if you consume healthy food items in greater quantities than you need, you will put on weight and increase the risk of diabetes. You must watch your portion sizes when you eat and don’t take more than 2 servings of each food. If you feel hungry still, then consume fruits like acai berry.

Instead of cooking in solid fats like vanaspati and dalda that can be rich in Trans fats and saturated fats, cook your food in healthy medium like olive oil or canola oil or rice bran or soy oil or sesame seed oil etc.

Chuck out sweetened aerated drinks and sweetened fruit juices from your diet and instead drink water, herbal green tea and calorie free diet drinks. If you have to drink fruit juices, then go for unsweetened home made fresh fruit juices.

If you have a sweet tooth, then you can consume non fat cheese, non fat yoghurt and doubled skimmed milk. You can sparingly eat diabetic sweet meats, but chocolates, pastries and cakes are a big no no.

Among the meat products which will meet your protein requirements are sirloin, pork loin, chicken, poultry and at times turkey. You have to stay away from red meat of all varieties.

In a diabetic meal plan, all kinds of white flour and flour have to be replaced with whole wheat products and whole grain products.