If you are a type-2 diabetic, and don't want to be; if you want to live a healthy life, without having to use drugs, you will have to change your diet - permanently. The question is: How?
You need to know that carbs - cereals, bread, potatoes, fruit, etc - are the only foods that raise blood glucose levels. So these are what you must cut down on. But don't go hungry. As you cut down on carbs, you should increase your intake of fats to compensate.
But you want to know is: Will it work? Right? Here is a simple test which should convince you, if you have a blood glucose meter.
One day test
Pick a time when you don't have to go to work: Next weekend, say. On Saturday if you normally have cereals or toast for breakfast, take your fasting blood glucose reading before breakfast and note it. Then take the reading again 2 hours after breakfast and note that as well.
On Sunday, don't have the cereals or toast, but scramble three eggs in butter instead. Take the same two readings as you did on Saturday: before and 2 hours after eating. Now compare the readings for the two days.
It's likely that your readings before breakfast will be similar - but not the ones afterwards. I expect the after breakfast reading on Saturday will show a glucose level that is too high, and the Sunday reading will be in the 'normal' range? Which is exactly what you want, isn't it? And what works for breakfast will work for all other meals. Eat this way and you'll no longer be diabetic.
There are just two caveats. Firstly, if you are using insulin or a drug that increases insulin production, you must take care to reduce this to compensate for the reduction in carbs.
And secondly, this change of energy source means that your body will have to change many of the enzymes it uses from ones that are used to metabolize carbs (glucose) to others that are needed to metabolize fats. And this takes time. So don't rush at it. Make the change over a couple of weeks. This has the added advantage that you can modify what you like eating now more easily, as it gives you time to think and monitor your progress.
You need to know that carbs - cereals, bread, potatoes, fruit, etc - are the only foods that raise blood glucose levels. So these are what you must cut down on. But don't go hungry. As you cut down on carbs, you should increase your intake of fats to compensate.
But you want to know is: Will it work? Right? Here is a simple test which should convince you, if you have a blood glucose meter.
One day test
Pick a time when you don't have to go to work: Next weekend, say. On Saturday if you normally have cereals or toast for breakfast, take your fasting blood glucose reading before breakfast and note it. Then take the reading again 2 hours after breakfast and note that as well.
On Sunday, don't have the cereals or toast, but scramble three eggs in butter instead. Take the same two readings as you did on Saturday: before and 2 hours after eating. Now compare the readings for the two days.
It's likely that your readings before breakfast will be similar - but not the ones afterwards. I expect the after breakfast reading on Saturday will show a glucose level that is too high, and the Sunday reading will be in the 'normal' range? Which is exactly what you want, isn't it? And what works for breakfast will work for all other meals. Eat this way and you'll no longer be diabetic.
There are just two caveats. Firstly, if you are using insulin or a drug that increases insulin production, you must take care to reduce this to compensate for the reduction in carbs.
And secondly, this change of energy source means that your body will have to change many of the enzymes it uses from ones that are used to metabolize carbs (glucose) to others that are needed to metabolize fats. And this takes time. So don't rush at it. Make the change over a couple of weeks. This has the added advantage that you can modify what you like eating now more easily, as it gives you time to think and monitor your progress.
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