Meals and Menu Planning
Diabetic meal and menu planning is critical to losing weight and getting your blood sugar under control.
Here are 7 Quick Tips for getting started with your own meal and menu plan:
- Plan Ahead.
Plan your eating habits out a week ahead. With hectic workweeks, you don't want to run out of food or meal ideas and end up in the fast food drive-through lane.
- Don't skip meals.
It's essential that you have regularlyscheduled meals to avoid binge eating.
- Eat 5-6 or more mini-meals per day.
- Maintain an overall low fat, low salt diet in all meals.
- Don't forget your carbs. Carbs are necessary for your health.
- Eat high fiber foods (beans, legumes, vegetables, whole grains)
- Avoid "crash" or "overnight results" dieting. 1-2 pounds of weight loss per week is recommended by most doctors.
In addition you may want to go to the 'Book' section on this site. Dr. John Leonard's book, Live Longer Now: The Cookbook, is loaded with over 500 low fat, low calorie recipes. You can download it immediately and it's FREE!
Also, don't forget Diab-X. It helps you realize 3 times faster weight loss than diet and excercise alone.