Diabetic

I've been diabetic for about 6 years now. The best thing to do is limit all carbs. Some will raise your blood sugar faster than others. Natural ones do it more slowly and help avoid that spike, but all will eventually raise it. It's important that when you do eat carbs, to have lots of veggies and some protein with it. Cardio helps a lot. Not only does going for a brisk walk after a meal help lower blood sugar but cardio can help your blood sugar long term as well. The more you do, the better your A1C will be. There is a diabetic group on here that may be worth joining. Lots of us on here trying to make diabetes better by losing weight. Feel free to add me!

Glad you have set up a meeting with a dietician. In the meantime my suggestions are much the same to those above. What personally works for me and my blood sugar levels is a diet filled with fruits and vegetables (yes...I still eat fruit...it is a good natural sugar and I just try not to go overboard. My rule is only one serving of each type of fruit each day and I try not to have more then 3-4 servings of fruit in a day). lean meats (chicken breast roasted, grilled fish with lemon juice, unprocessed turkey, etc) and some whole grains (not a lot). I also try to incorporate some healthy fats (the natural kind from nuts, avocado and a limited amount of olive oil). For me it is key to make my food taste good. So for example if I'm going to eat green beans as my main veggie with dinner I will use some szechuan sauce and garlic and slivered almonds to liven them up a bit. I don't shy away from low calorie low sugar sauces in this regard but I do try to monitor the sodium and keep it under the 2300 recommended per day. (Also, siratcha and tabasco can liven up some air popped popcorn!).

For me it is also key to have three decent meals and some appropriately timed snacks. Breakfast usually consists of coffee (I skip the creamer now and am o.k. with it if I buy a better brand of fresh coffee) a whole grain toaster waffle (search around for the best option your store provides) and perhaps a quorn sausage patty. My nighttime snack is often a frozen light & fit dannon 80 calorie greek yogurt (I buy them and then just pop them in the freezer...this sounds weird but in order to eat them pop them into the microwave for 30 seconds and they are ready to enjoy) or frozen organic mango chunks (yum!).

The other thing I highly recommend is just getting out and moving 'more'. Start with simply 'more' then you were doing before. For example if you honestly never really got out of the house to go for a walk or run or anything like that try to get out of the house and go for a walk 3-4 nights a week (start with something that makes sense for you and is 'more' then you were doing before). Don't go overboard and try to start running marathons right away. Just improve upon what you were doing and then slowly improve upon that and you will see that it will then become easier to add more activity.

Find foods that work for you, find exercises you enjoy (walks in warm weather are fantastic in my opinion), find people who SUPPORT you (maybe even a 'sponsor' someone you can call when you are wanting to throw in the towel and binge eat pizza, cookies, ice cream etc.).

Best of luck, add me if you want and let me know if you have any questions I can help with.