When you go into your doctor’s office and you are advised to go on a “Diabetic Diet ” you may wonder what this will mean for your enjoyment of food, but you don’t have to worry. Although there are no actual Diabetic Diets out there for you to take part in per se , a licensed nutritionist along with your own medical adviser can give you support and guidance in the right direction. This article will provide you with some basic tips and provide some ideas for discussion with your doctor and your Dietician.

You’ll no doubt need some time to adjust to the idea of being pre-diabetic, or even having diabetes. Naturally your first port of call is your doctor’s surgery to get some information on how to eat properly to help control your diabetic symptoms. Since there are no exact diets to use for diabetes as all sufferers will be somewhat different, you can create a diet that will particularly fit your needs. The first thing to take into consideration is that when you have diabetes you don’t have to quit eating everything you normally eat you just need to eat them differently.

A few things that you can change in your eating habits, however, are:

1. The quantity you eat

2. The timing you eat

3. How you prepare your food

4. Making sure you decrease sugary foods and sweets

5. Being careful about how and when you eat carbohydrates (the building blocks of sugar that can upset your blood sugar levels very quickly)

6. Eat more:

• Vegetables
• Whole wheat grains
and to an extent
• Fruits
…but avoid too many sweet fruits that basically provide a surge of sugar!

7. Reduce your fat intake

8. Moderate your alcohol consumption (again alcohol is simply a chemical reformulation of the components of sugar)

When you are trying to adjust to a Diabetic Diet Plan keep track of how much you normally eat at each meal and if you have snacks throughout the day. If you don’t typically eat regular meals, then it’s going to be important for you to create an eating schedule. You need to see to it that you are eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner along with small snacks in between meals. It is also important to maintain at least a 1600 calorie diet on a daily basis (this shouldn’t be hard as it is a rather low level of calories - but the key is regular balanced meals that don’t cause too much of an upset - that’s peak or trough - in your blood sugar).

If you are used to being a ‘big eater’ then you will probably need to cut back somewhat at each meal. You can do this gradually, and by adding small snacks during the day you will keep things on an even keel and stave off any undue hunger pangs. This will have a number of positive benefits: It will help keep your sugar level fairly stable. Keep your appetite under control. Plus it should keep you from ‘pigging out’ when you sit down to eat a regularly scheduled meal.

A really good positive thing about eating like this, along with exercise, it will help you to lose weight. Obesity is a major precursor to developing diabetic symptoms, so getting a few pounds off can work wonders. Not only will it help in the short term, but once you get used to it, you will find you can keep the weight off. In addition you could well feel an overall improvement in your physical health.

Make sure you eat breakfast every morning and try to include some fruit. Fruit not only tastes good, but it is good for giving you energy and it can be a great snack. It’s also important that you eat lunch every day to help you maintain a steady amount of energy throughout your day no matter what you are doing. If you are a person that normally skips lunch try starting out by having some crackers or a salad for lunch so you will be eating something and it will be a light meal.

The next important meal you need to eat is dinner. When you eat dinner try to eat a well balanced meal so that your body won’t feel over full or bloated.

It is also important to eat at regular times every day so that your body can adjust and process the food before you go to bed. Be careful not to eat too early. If you eat too early in the evening then you may become hungry again and want to eat before you go to bed. On the converse side you should avoid late evening eating as this can lead to acid reflux or indigestion problems if you try to sleep on partially digested meal!

There is one last tip to pass on about your diabetic meals. And this is how you prepare your meals. You should broil or bake your meats. In addition if you have to cook on the top of the stove use Virgin Olive Oil in place of butter or other less healthy options that may contain trans, or hydrogenated fats.

As you can see a diabetic diet is not the end of the world. If fact if it is followed, you will delay the worsening of your diabetes, lose weight and improve your health overall.

In fact there is much more that you should learn about ‘eating tactics’ for dealing with diabetic symptoms. There are some amazing results being achieved in terms of alleviating and even reversing diabetes by adopting a meat free,largely raw food diet.

I’ll be posting ,more about this soon…BUT if you need more urgent inspiration about how to eat for regaining health when you have diabetes than you really MUST see the video evidence of a group of diabetics who ‘went raw’ for just 30-days . I promise you it is a real eye opener: