Low Carb Diabetic Diet

Everyone can learn the joys of shopping, and shopping for fresh food is a very special task. Colourful arrays of fruits and vegetables are a delight to the eye, and savouring the seasonal smells of mandarins, apricots, peaches, pears and strawberries, to mention just a few, is something we all enjoy. I can think of few ‘live’ scenes that offer more colour and entertainment than a food market. And it is within the reach of all city-dwellers. When shopping for fresh food take your children with you as often as you can and share your knowledge of food with them. They will enjoy it immensely. Our eight-year old daughter, Joey, can easily distinguish good fruit and vegetables from bad ones. As an adult, therefore, he will be confident shopping for himself and will, I am sure, pass on his enjoyment of marketing to his own children.

For a person who works outside the home, as as doing housework and caring for children, it is desirable to have help from a sharing partner if family eating patterns are not to suffer. Eating badly is detrimental to family health and happiness. Because busy lifestyles we cannot all shop as often as we should; but for the sake of freshness it is best to she: at least twice a week and share the task as much as possible. Shopping for three or four days ahead requires a certain amount of planning. To buy the freshest ingredients you should choose the best shopping days of the week, that is Tuesday for midweek, then Friday or Saturday morning for good quality ingredients for the weekend.

Low Carb Diabetic Diet

For many of us, it’s not a news flash that we weigh too much. Maybe we are secure enough in our lives that the paunch of the middle age doesn’t bother us. Or maybe we have been overweight for all of our adult years and have learned to live with it. Our weight could have yo-yoed so much over the years that we are sure there is no real solution to losing weight and keeping it off. Some women are too busy to deal with the 20 extra pounds three pregnancies have left behind. We don’t do anything about extra weight because the threat of diabetes doesn’t seem real enough.

So what about you? Are you worried enough about diabetes to try to shed those extra pounds? Have you given any thought to what ti will take to motivate you to examine and change your habits? What barriers are stopping you from taking action today, right this minute, in fact?

It is okay if improved health and diabetes prevention are not your primary motivation for losing weight. There can be many your primary motivation for losing weight. There can be many other personal benefits to getting to a lower number on the scale. What about appearance? Feeling better? Looking sexier? Fitting into a smaller size? Creating a body as buff as the 25 year old who lives next door? Feeling muscles in your arms and legs that you never knew existed? Keeping up with you kids as they in-line skate through the neighbourhood?

One way to figure out what will motivate you to make changes in your lifestyles is to think of all the benefits you will personally gain when you lose weight. No matter how silly or selfish they may seem, write down ten benefits in a journal or a notebook or on a stray piece of paper. Then force yourself to come up with ten more benefits — it’s often the second ten that are the real reasons you want to lose weight. In these you may find the real motivation for making a conscientious effort to manage your weight.

Putting all this into writing can make you see up front what you could gain if you started taking steps to manage your weight. Then once you are on the path toward a healthier lifestyle, this list will motivate you, reenergize you, and get you through the rough spots.

Low Carb Diabetic Diet

Diet therapy is essential in the control of all diabetics, be they on diet alone, oral medication or insulin.

The aims of dietary management are:

1. To help control levels of glucose in the blood, and prevent loss of glucose in the urine.

2. To achieve a satisfactory weight. If you are overweight you will need to lose weight to achieve ideal body weight suitable for your age, sex, height, and body build. This is important because obesity is a health hazard particularly for diabetics. If you are underweight you will need to increase your body weight.

3. To provide a palatable diet which si acceptable to the individual.

4. To provide sufficient calories for normal activities.

The diet will be individualized for each person. The physician’s prescription is based on:

i. Age, sex, weight, height and activity of the individual.

ii. Type of diabetes IDDM (Insulin Dependent) or NIDDM (Non-Insulin Dependent)

iii. Type of medication, amount and when administered.

iv. Nutritional requirements of the individual.

Low Carb Diabetic Diet

What silly things did you do recently in the kitchen?

Was it about putting the vegetable in the freezer compartment when you are suppose to store it at the down compartment?

Or was it about smashing your own fingers when you are suppose to smash the garlic?

I just did one early this morning. Well, it goes like this:

We were in SP and got to know that Kings Confectionery at Tesco was having the last day sale for all their items. 40% off all items, that’s really cheap! And they are all fresh from the oven!

I spotted my favorite danish, pastries,blueberry cheese tart, swiss roll and also japanese chiffon cake. Blueberry cheese tart was suppose for the girl’s next day breakfast. So happily I went back to PG with full load of RM 17 only for all of them. Could have cost me more than that at usual days! –

So the next morning came, and I woke up early to reheat the danish and pastries and blueberry cheese tart in my old fashion oven….not the microwave oven, though.

Read it write, i HEAT the BLUEBERRY CHEESE TART in the HOT OVEN. DING! Times up, and when i open the oven door, i really got a shock of my life, to see the soggy and soft cheese looking as if it is going to melt in the tart base!

Then only I realize that what on earth should I need to reheat a BLUEBERRY CHEESE TART? That’s insane.

But it happen early the morning at around 6.30am. I would have to blame it on the blurry eyes and brains.

Silly me yuh!

Low Carb Diabetic Diet