meals for pre-diabetic?

Diabetic dieting is actually really easy. It's just very different than the average American diet. After my diagnosis, I started googling "diabetic diet" frantically and joined several messageboards looking for tips. I also remember that, like your mother, I cried a lot after my diagnosis - out of fear, out of regret, out of the crippling realization that my life would never be "normal" again.

A Type 2 diabetic diet is a low-carbohydrate diet. Carbohydrates turn into glucose in the blood, sometimes very quickly. Diabetics don't have enough accessible insulin to use all the glucose, and that leads to dangerously high blood sugar. Protein partially turns into glucose and fat doesn't at all, so fat and protein are excellent sources of nutrition for diabetics (assuming there are no other health problems, in which case the diet may need to be altered).

There are so many types of low-carbohydrate diets - Atkins and South Beach being the most popular. I don't follow either one. I just count carbohydrates on my own. Following a diet plan is good for a beginner, though.

So, what foods are safe and what foods aren't? And how many carbohydrates per meal, per snack, and per day? A lot will depend on your mother's blood sugar after meals. She should buy a glucose meter as soon as possible and aim for these targets: <140 mg/dL one hour after eating, <120 mg/dL two hours after eating. By 4 hours, she should be close to or under <100 mg/dL. The American Association of Diabetic Endocrinologists recommends that diabetics fast <110 mg/dL.

She should eat, write down her meal, and test. If she meets her targets, great. If not, she should cut back the portion and test again another day or cut out the food entirely.

My diet is mainly meat, hard cheese, and non-starchy vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, lettuce, asparagus). I sometimes eat tree nuts, like macadamia and almonds, as well as lower-carb dairy, like heavy cream (in my coffee mainly), sour cream, cream cheese, and soft cheese. I occasionally eat natural peanut butter with no added sugar. I maintain <30 grams of carbohydrate per day, but most diabetics start out at 50-100 grams and then cut back as needed. Also, the types of carbs matter just as much as the number. Some, like white rice, can be murder on blood sugar, whereas others, like cashews, aren't as bad.

I avoid potatoes, rice, corn, all grains and cereals, fruit (berries or lower-sugar fruit is okay if blood sugar can stay normal afterward), and sugar.

Here's my favorite low-carb website: http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/recipes.html The recipes are so fun and you, your mother, and father can pick out some and make them together.

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Well, since high sugars are what can precipitate diabetes type 2, then make sure she eats foods that are low on the glycemic index. Obviously vegetables are good, and protein rich foods like lean meats and nuts. But not peanuts! Those aren't actually nuts and they're bad. Also stay away from refined sugars, and also high sugar content fruits. But fruits with high fiber are good because they help the food digest slower and therefore release a lesser and steadier flow of glucogen into the blood system. Apples are good (but not apple juice) and other harder fibrous fruits. Stay away from cakes, pies, cookies, etc. And if she wants filling carbs, have her eat whole wheat breads and pastas.

It's all about educating yourself on what is good to eat. There are lots of sites about what types of foods are best for diabetics, but generally a low carb, high lean protein, and high fiber diet is the best. And that type of diet is just good in general.

It's not the end of the world, it's just that she will have to make some serious dietary changes and be dilligent about checking her blood sugar levels. She should be asking her doctor about what safety measures she should be taking. And since diabetics can not only have issues with too high of blood sugar, but also have significant drops in blood sugar, which is actually more of an immediate and dangerous health threat than a rise, she should probably carry around glucose tablets with her in case of an attack. Or candies, crackers, or juice or whatever, to temporarily raise sugar levels until getting something to level it out. And if she's pre-diabetic, she probably won't need to take insulin on a daily basis or anything "yet" but if it ever comes to that, she should definitely carry an insulin pen around with her too.

I am hypoglycemic, which is a little different, but it can be just as dangerous if my blood sugar levels drop too low. And I just have to make sure I eat evenly spaced meals and stay away from really sugary stuff, or I can have a reactive hypoglycemic episode. Good luck. Not the end of the world, just a change.

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Diabetes is a disease of carbohydrate metabolism. Diabetics are unable to metabolize carbohydrate - and that includes stuff like grains, bread, rice, potatoes, corn, noodles, pasta, oatmeal, wheat, rye etc. You will hear crap about 'good' carb and 'bad' carb but this is nonsense, all carb spikes blood sugar and therefore carb has to be carefully managed in the diabetic diet.

A true diabetic diet is a low carb diet. You don't need to worry about protein or fat. Please disregard anything that purports to be 'diabetic' but is high in carbohydrate.

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