The foods you eat trigger blood glucose responses in your body. The vitamins you consume, such as B vitamins in nutritious foods, influence the way your body breaks down carbohydrates. Taking a longer look at why your blood sugar may increase and fine-tuning what you eat will help treat the problem disease of diabetes. A journal can help track the foods you eat every day and monitor their effectiveness, along with recorded blood sugars.
Fresh Fruit
You need to eat fresh fruit. Review what you consume to get yourself back on track to healthy eating. As you continue living with diabetes, you may have begun to slip back into eating candy or pastries instead of fresh fruit. Processed sweats often do not provide your body with sufficient amounts of minerals and vitamins. When shopping, add fresh fruit to the list. Fruit will help break down food in your digestive tract and strengthen your bowels to move more quickly, MayoClinic.com says. Choose favorite fruits to eat raw, such as peaches, strawberries and mangoes. This will keep your needed nutrition afloat. If you are on a 1,400-calorie-per-day diet, divide the fruit and place in plastic storage bags so you know exactly how much of it you consume. Date and time the bags for the meal of choice.
Fresh Vegetables
Eating canned vegetables as well as processed already-made meals will add fats and calories to your waistline. Review what you have or have not eaten. Fresh vegetables will bring back healthy food to your diet. Pick vegetables that you enjoy, but that also provide the kind of nutrition you need, such as broccoli and cauliflower with a low-calorie ranch dip. Eat vegetables in their raw state to add fiber to your diet. The raw vegetables will help you feel better as you gain back the minerals and vitamins you lose from canned and processed foods.
Fresh Fish and Chicken
Poultry and fish are two mainstays in a diabetic diet. By reviewing your caloric intake needs, you can adjust how much chicken and fish you need to consume each day. You can change the methods of preparation to prevent the same foods from becoming boring. Fresh fish on the grill, for example, is both healthy and tasty. You also can cook fresh chicken on the grill and serve it on skewers, which make cooking simple. By keeping a journal of the meats you buy, you can remain in charge of your diet and the calories you consume. You should review your journal weekly and check off how you did in sticking to your diet.
Exercise
Review your lifestyle related to healthy food choices. While you review the foods you take in, watch how often you exercise. Ask yourself if you exercise enough, and ask yourself if you skip daily walks. Question what part of your lifestyle gets in the way of your proper diabetic health. Answering these questions honestly will promote specific ways to get back on track toward healthy living, MayoClinic.com suggests.
