The Easy Diabetes Diet Plan Cookbook – Eating Healthy and Well as a Diabetic

Eating Healthy and Well as a Diabetic

If we haven’t said it enough, eating healthy and well is the key to living a normal life with diabetes. That means saying goodbye to fast food favorites like burgers and fries loaded with ketchup and that large coke to go with it. You and that ice cream sundae with chocolate fudge? Never gonna happen. Your days of eating breakfast at a McDonald’s or a Taco Bell are behind you and belong in another life. But how exactly should you get started on eating better quality food? What makes for a good diet plan for a diabetic?

The first thing you need to do is to walk over to your pantry and fridge and look at what you’ve got. If it’s bare, then it’ll be easier on you because the first step towards a diabetic diet is to throw out any food with refined sugars and carbs. That includes the frozen hash browns, the ice cream, the fruit juice in a box or bottle, and the leftover candy from Halloween. And while you’re at it, throw out your high-sodium canned food too.

Better yet, place all of the food that you can’t eat anymore in a box and give it to the nicest, friendliest neighbour you can think of. Let’s not throw food in the trash just because it can’t be part of your life anymore

What you need in your kitchen and in your diet are unprocessed food that contain complex sugars and carbohydrates that aren’t as easily broken down by your body and offers a heck of a lot more nutritional value. When you eat a marshmallow for example, you’re basically eating sugar in its most basic form which calls for a lot of insulin that your body can’t provide. You have to start replacing junk food with real food that you buy in the market and cook for yourself.

You may be asking, if you can’t have those instant, pre-packaged food in your pantry anymore, what should you be replacing them with?

This is an excerpt from the book: The Easy Diabetes Diet Plan Cookbook