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Posted by: calyx156 on 2007-08-17, 21:41:15
Atkins has been shown to work very well for pre-diabetes and diabetes, at least in the short term, if you can stick with it. I personally found the hot flashes, menstrual disturbances and awful constipation from eating all that animal food to be unbearable. I did okay in the summer w/ lots of fish and shrimp and chicken and salad and veggies, but the winter was hell for me w/ out thick, warming bean and grain soups, etc. A standard Diabetic Diet w/ 30g or less carbs per each meal would work great for you. Essentially, you can eat all the lean protein and veggies you want, being VERY careful of the carbs and fats. I have also found the Macrobiotic diet w/ lots more chicken, fish and beans than is usually recommended, and a lot less grain REALLY helps me. Salad twice a day in the warm months, and miso soup 2-3 times/ day as well. The seaweed in the diet gently taps the thyroid and rebalances the entire endocrine system. You CANNOT eat too many veggies when you're diabetic, unless you have IBS, too. I also recommend the use of a good juicing machine. Juicing is unparalleled in its benefits to your health. Begin by cutting out all white sugar. Then go to all white flour, white rice, white pasta and replace these items w/ their whole and unrefined cousins. Eliminate ALL drugs and alcohol at the same time. For a while, measure everything, following portion sizes. You'll be amazed at how much you've been overeating!!! Stop buying canned and packaged things. If you want sweets, my rule is you have to bake 'em, or you can't eat 'em, and they have to be made w/ fertile eggs, whole grain flours and seeds, organic fruit and all natural ingredients. I don't bake much anymore, as my sweet tooth is disappearing. Pretty much the only cans I have in my cupboards are: Canned tomatoes, tuna, canned beans like chick peas, kidney beans, cannellini, black olives, coconut milk for Thai cooking, baking powder and soda, spices, extracts, the occasional can of soup or turkey chili, and canned French cut green beans and corn for use in a pinch. I also have pesto, but the traditional canned green basil pesto and dried tomato as well, and canned salmon, anchovies, mackeral and sardines. That's about it. Eliminate red meat for a good long while, replace that w/ fish if you like it. Otherwise, eat more chicken and other types of poultry. Avoid deep-fried stuff like the plague. Avoid fast food like the plague as well. It'll kill you. Eat salad twice a day, especially in the warm weather. Eat soup and/ or a sandwich in the cold weather. NEVER skip breakfast. I have diabetes on both sides of my family. I have raised two children as a single mother for the last 19 years. I state that I got diabetes from stress. I would advise you to closely examine your life's stressors, and to eliminate or transform as many of those as humanly possible. They'll kill you, too. Sometimes diabetes is literally an issue of life not being sweet enough. Find the sweetness, and keep it in your life. Ask yourself: Will this be important tomorrow, next week, in five years? If the answer is "No! ", let it go or get rid of it. |
