What are you doing in terms of diet to help with Type 2 diabetes?
Thanks.
Some people do well on a low carb diet. I’m not diabetic yet but I have heard some people do well on it.
Some people do well on diets high in juices made from fresh fruits/vegetables. I will post the name of the book I was reading on the subject if I can remember it.
I have lost 85 pounds. Other than that, I eat a pretty normal diet. My blood sugar went over 8 mmol/l but now it is below 6, usually around 5.7. Multiply those numbers by 18 to convert to mg/dl, the way it is reported in the US.
I try to avoid “white carbs” as much as I can. I have little to no sugar, and avoid white bread and white rice (or, at least, limit it) when I can. My achilles’ heel is potatoes, so I try to limit how much of them I eat, and swap in sweet potatoes when available.
I’ve read that, in general, following the advice of diet plans like the South Beach Diet, which focuses on the glycemic index of foods, can be a fairly good approach for a diabetic.
I cut out sugared pop and 85% of the candy and high sugar snacks.
When the weather is nicer, I do a lot of walking.
But yeah, I need to lose about 40 pounds.
If it’s lean or green, eat it. Avoid it if it’s white.
Lean meat, green veggies, cauliflower is green for purposes of this exercise.
Avoid white flour, sugar, rice, wheat, or just about anything else with a carb. Alcohol is a carb for the purpose of the diabetic’s diet. If you have to eat a carb, make sure it’s whole grain.
Fatty food is bad for the waistline, but won’t screw with your blood sugar.
Ah yes. I remember Googling to see low/no sugar options at Starbucks and the advice was to use artificial sweeteners and add in a bunch of full fat cream! Yes, because at this weight, I need full fat cream too.
Almost 25 pounds down, but it’s slow going…
I’m dieting to avoid it fully developing. Not much to add to what is already here - lean meats and cheeses, lots of veg and fruit, avoid white starches and processed sugars. Losing some weight, need to lose more. I’m also trying to avoid the deep-fired and fatty foods so I don’t end up kicking the diabetes risk only to end up having a heart attack. South Beach is recommended for both heart and diabetes, so I’m doing a kind of mish-mash of South Beach phase two and Weight Watchers.
I would kill myself if I had to avoid white starches. Most bread, white rice (brown rice with Japanese food just isn’t the same), pasta… They’re all very regular parts of my diet. It’s rare I go a day without a meal without at least one of those these days…
Then again, my feet feel a little cold, so I may have to… 
I can’t comment on the rice, but for breads and pastas, you can make some adjustments. Going to multigrain or flax breads will add fibre to counteract the carbs, and Weight Watchers bread is portion controlled to be more healthy. There’s also low carb tortillas, I forget the brand - La Tortilla? And then there’s Dreamfields pasta, they keep their recipe secret, but somehow most of the carbs aren’t digested so it’s very low carb. And you mention you eat Japanese food, so you probably know of shirataki noodles, which are made from sort of veggie so they’re really low carb. Maybe integrate those into a few meals a week instead of rice? Yummy ramen-like soups?
My mom managed her blood sugar for many years through diet alone. The thing I will say is that she was already retired at the time and so was able to devote a LOT of time to planning and preparing her meals and snacks. I don’t know all the details. I do know she abandoned her long standing no breakfast, big lunch, frozen dinner approach.
She eats at specific times, and includes protein bars in her menu. She carries a bar or a 1/4 cup of raw almonds in her purse.
Another thing I’m aware of is that she found has a low carb, high protein snack shortly before going to sleep it helps keep her blood sugar more stable.
There’s a lot of planning and prep, and I only see it all in action when I visit. When that happens we go out to eat more than she does alone (she never eats out alone, in fact) so I see some management but not her typical day.
About the Dreamfields pasta, I’ve seen test results people have done themselves using a blood glucose monitor and they called BS on the claims made by that company.
I would avoid it.
I don’t diet. I try to eat lean and clean but not always.
Too bad multigrain bread tastes like ass. And they don’t do any good when I want to eat gyros or burgers.
I could, but they take much more effort, and you can’t exactly put curry over them or eat them with katsu. (Well, I could, but that would be an extra charge for an extra side dish. Then again, it is only once a month…)
My dieticians aren’t really pushing the brown carbs much. (Though they do push them.) Their big thing is carb pairing. For every gram of carbs I eat, I must eat at least a gram of protein. And as many veggies as I can get. And fruit counts as carbs. Juice counts as soda.
The general rule is lean protein as big as a deck of cards, about 3/4 cup carbs (or one slice of bread, or one piece of fruit), and a big honkin’ load of green stuff.
I still eat at my favorite burger place, but I take the top bun off of the burger and get cole slaw instead of chips. My dieticians will be pleased…