Diabetes Diet Plan ? The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Don?t you just love snuggling up with a bag of potato chips as you catch some television? Watch a movie with someone you love as you pursue a bowl of ice cream. How about a huge sandwich, or a couple burgers and some French fries for lunch. While you may have liked these foods you have just witnessed the ugly in the diabetes diet plan. Sure there are uglier foods but this is a good place to start.
I mean I used to thrive on this stuff all the time. (Thrive is an interesting term). I would eat these foods and meals often during the week. It?s just not worth it to consume these morsels like I used to. Once in rare while I think would be okay.
The above mentioned foods and foods like them are not doing you or I any good.
Some foods that allow you to stay in control of your diabetes are what I am calling the good. Other foods that provide less control for you I will label the bad. You have already seen what I classify as the ugly. The ugly foods are what I will call the bad blood sugar increasers. They will add blood sugar to your blood.
When choosing the right diabetes diet plan for yourself one barometer you may want to use is the Glycemic Index. This index will give you the speed at which food is turned into sugar in your body. Quick rises in sugar usually equate to quick crashes later on. If you were eating candy cars you would spike with energy and then be tired later. Think of little kids that operate like this.
Fast increases in blood sugar levels creates wear and tear on your body. Track the glycemic index when eating. This index rates foods according to the way these foods act in response to your blood sugar. If the carbohydrates the food contains break down promptly, they tend to make your blood sugar levels jump quickly. These foods have a high GI (glycemic index) ranking.
Having a diabetes diet plan that has moderate rises in blood sugar will serve you better than spikes in sugar created by a lot of bad and ugly food that we may have been eating over the years.
Here are some choices that will help you stay in good range with your diabetes diet plan.
When thinking about a potato think red like in sweet potato instead of white. White potatoes have a high glycemic index. Sweat potatoes have a lower glycemic index. This is like golf. The lower your number the better the score.
Instead of those potato chips that we talked about before or some pretzels, put a bag of popcorn next to you. Less salt, less fat and less of a glycemic index number. Not only does this food fall in line with a good diabetes diet plan it will also help maintain safer blood pressure. Think of good foods that are close in nature to the bad or ugly foods you may have liked. Like eating popcorn instead of potato chips.
For your diabetes diet plan stay away from foods that have a high glycemic index. Learning what foods to eat and what foods to stay away from or only eat on rare occasions are what will make the rest of your life safer. From a food standpoint anyway.
Having a sound diabetes diet plan is only part of the overall diagram to living a healthy and prosperous life. Now that you have diabetes you must make some changes to stay ahead of the game. The glycemic index will separate the good, the bad and the ugly foods for you.
If you are interested in a safe and sound diabetes game plan that will cover all the bases for you grab your free e course.
I have been a diabetic for about two years and still learning about what I can do that will help me through this part of my life?s journey. Once I knocked down my blood sugar level from 325 to 130 I knew that I could help others achieve the same results. Go to my website to help you create a well rounded diabetes care program for yourself. Grab your free e course. http://www.diabetesnaturalsolutions.com
Related Articles:
Optimize Your Diet For Maximum Growth
The best weight training and cardio workouts will do very little if your diet is off. Make sure you have your diet optimized to build quality lean muscle, have the energy to power you through those tough workouts and drop that excess body fat.
Slimaluma ? A New Weight Loss Supplement
Did you know that diet has the greatest impact on your weight loss efforts, as compared to maintaining the same unhealthy diet and increasing exercise? As a matter of fact, the celebrity Janet Jackson, who lost 60 pounds in 2006, attributes a whopping 80 percent of her success to changes in diet. Also, it?s interesting to note that she refuses to use the word ?diet.? She says, ?It?s a way of life--good portions, nice, balanced meals.?
Successful Weight Loss After Pregnancy
How fast you lose weight will depend on a number of factors, including the amount of weight you gained during your pregnancy.Most women will lose anywhere from 10-14 pounds within the first 2 weeks of delivery.
Tuna and Water Diet
Ready for a hardcore diet to get lean in a matter of days? This diet is used by professional bodybuilders to prepare before the competition. It requires an iron willpower but guarantees 100% results.
HMR Offers a Free Week of Diet Foods to Jump Start Your Winter Weight Loss
It's the New Year so it's time to get serious with dieting again. Hundreds of thousands of dieters across the country have lost more weight, more quickly by attending HMR's professional hospital-based programs. Now, to jump start New Year's resolutions, this same program and weight-loss foods are available to use at home with HMR's Healthy Solutions Quick Start™ Diet Kit. Plus, for a limited time, HMR is offering a free week of weight-loss foods with the purchase of a three-week Healthy Solutions Quick Start Diet Kit, plus free shipping.
Women Find Weight Loss Solution with Outdoor Fitness Boot Camp
The 6 week program has allowed women to lose weight and keep it off. The average weight loss is about 10-15 lbs. during the six-week program. Women in past boot camps have seen some great results.
Guidelines to a Healthy Diet
The American Heart Association recommends that you eat a variety of foods from the different food groups. In order for women to lose one to two pounds a week, they should consume between 1200 and 1500 calories a day.
Overnight Summer Camp - How To Choose The Best Weight Loss Camp For Your Child
Twenty-five years ago weight-loss camp campers were mostly teenage girls who were at least 100 pounds or more overweight. The menu usually consisted of food such as beef liver, fish and alfalfa sprouts and the only form of exercise was running and doing sit-ups. The ultimate goal at these overnight summer camps is to lose as much weight as possible in as little time as possible. They were often considered special needs camps. There are also many teen and adult weight loss camps.
Cleansing Diets: A Guide To Finding The Right One For You
There are so many choices among cleansing diets, it is difficult to distinguish which one is best for you By definition and practice cleansing diets remove toxins from your body by diet modification, herbs and elimination of toxins from your environment
3 Easy Weight Loss Tips
Losing weight is a challenge. After all, if maintaining your ideal weight was easy, you would already be doing it, wouldn?t you? However, there are things that you can do to cut back the calories without making yourself suffer. Here are three easy weight loss tips to make the pounds melt away.
4 Things Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About A Diabetic Diet
We hear it every day from Type 2 diabetics: 'I hate my doctor!" This is unfortunate.
Dr. Sanford Siegal's Cookie Diet™ Hunger-Controlling Foods Soon Available from Doctors in Mexico
Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D., who created the Cookie Diet™ in 1975, announces the imminent availability of his hunger-controlling diet cookies from physicians in Mexico
Fat and Weight Loss: How Simple Does Fat Loss 4 Idiots Work?
Fat Loss 4 Idiots is a fat and weight loss program that is accessible through the internet It claims to assist you in losing up to nine pounds in 11 days
Are Weight Loss Supplements Worth It?
What do you think of the hundreds of weight loss supplements out there on the shelves today? Are they worth the money? Will they actually help you lose weight? How do you know which ones are going to work for you? Is there any proof that these products work?I've taken some time and researched some of the most popular product to try to find the answers for you. The truth is, most products won't help you lose anything but money.
Diet And Acne: Diet Tips For Acne That Work
Diet And Acne ? There Is A Deep Relationship Between The Two, But Still No Diet Can Cure Acne Find Out More From A Lifelong Acne Researcher
Medical profession had long believed that acne and diet were never linked together