free diabetic diets

Dieting can produce happiness in some people because they think they're working actively towards a goal they believe will bring fulfilment, health, sex, happiness, or whatever. The rest of the world finds it a bore, something that gets in the way of life.

Free diabetic diets

Let me tell you this for free; diabetic diets are not very different from other healthy living diets.

There are many sites on the web where you can buy menu planners for diabetics, some offer this for free. This is ok if you'd rather let someone else choose what you'll eat, but it's mostly stuff you already (probably) know.

WHAT YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW: You know what are considered healthy foods by now, right? Ok, just in case...

GOOD STUFF:

Diabetic guidelines: what can diabetics eat?

There are consequences to doing what you wanna do. If you give in to every single urge, you're in danger of spiralling into the realms of excess.

If you've got diabetes, these consequences—although not immediately apparent—can be devastating. If you're not in control of the stuff you put in your mouth, then who is?

Who is the thinker behind the thought?

Eating what you want is a wonderful freedom, but not always wise. If you want to always eat what you want, the trick is this...

Believe it or don't: you are in charge of your thoughts. You DECIDE what you're going to think.

When you get a slight twinge of the munchies, your brain flicks through a list of possibilities. You plump for the option you like most.

You can think, 'Oooh, I'd love a big slice of cheesecake.' Then, you can walk to the fridge and eat a big slice of cheesecake., using your diabetic guidelines to wipe the corners of your mouth.

Or, you can let your brain flick past that and onto the next option: 'I'd love a big plate of lettuce.'

Do you remember that trick where the magician (is it David Copperfield?) made the Statue of Liberty disappear? Absolutely amazing! But it was just a trick.

Instead of removing the statue, the studio audience's perspective is shifted over to focus on an area where the statue isn't, making them believe the statue had gone.

Then, while they were all busy gasping at the miraculous, and staring at the curtain, the magician shifted back the perspective they were used to and...

Anyway, eating habits—like many lifelong habits—can be pretty hard to shift. Take you, for example...

Then, at some point, they shoved a diet sheet in your hands, told you to lay off the sugar and sent you on your way.

Crazy! Eating is something we do every day of our lives, several joyful times a day. We get used to what we like, we know our favourite recipes, can go to a restaurant and order our most beloved meals, and grab our munchies for work. All this happens without having to think too much about it.

Diabetic diet planner

Dieticians will produce a simple menu planner for diabetics. It involves eating regular meals with lots of veggies and fruit.

Some people shift over to the new diabetes eating plan easily. Usually, these people either:

These folk usually have no diabetic eating disorders to sort out in the first place, and find cutting down sugar easy enough because they aren't all that addicted anyway.

Diabetic eating disorder

Lots of type 2 diabetics have an underlying eating disorder (which probably contributed to their development of diabetes).

This being the case, why do those in the know think it sufficient to hand over a printout of some diet?

Most attempts at controlling diabetes by diet fail miserably, not because the diet is at fault, but because the core problem lies with the person's own issues with food.

Maybe you eat massive quantities, hungry or not, or still eat too many sweets or cakes or biscuits or pies. This isn't because you don't know what you're doing. Of course you know! You're not stupid!

Surely there's enough motivation: you'll feel unwell later, you'll go blind, you'll get kidney failure, you'll get your legs chopped off... The list is quite long, but, in the moment, the compulsion to eat is stronger than the fear of consequences.

The compulsion to overeat or eat what is inappropriate is, I suppose, similar to any other addiction.

You may have already read HERE that one of the side-effects of high blood glucose levels is polyphagia (the overwhelming urge to eat...and eat...and eat some more). This in itself feeds a vicious cycle of binge eating.

You're starving, you're dying for a bickie with your cuppa tea, and there's that diet sheet, wedged under the fridge magnet, trying to persuade you to chomp a celery stick or chew a piece of carrot. Hmm!

Actually, when you make your cuppa, what are you thinking exactly? If you're anything like the many people I talk to (and I talk to myself quite a bit about this too), you're probably planning on eating more than one bickie.

Do you take a single biscuit out of the pack, place a paper doily on a plate, position the bickie to the centre, and take it into the lounge with your cuppa? Have you DECIDED you're only gonna eat one?

Or, do you leave your options open and bring the packet in with you just in case?

You can do it!

No diabetic diet planner is going to save you from your urges. Only you can. It takes a bit of work, but looking inside, listening to your body and allowing yourself to notice what's going on is a starting point.

You need to work out why you want to eat that box of doughnuts rather than the salad. When you find your reasons, you're better armed to conquer the problem.

EATING MAKES US FEEL...?

When we eat, we're doing something that is good for us as a species. Without eating, our species would die out in no time. So, as a result of eating, we produce chemicals that make us feel good. When these chemicals bind to their receptors, we feel at one with the world, just like we do after an orgasm (also good for us as a species). These chemicals can be quite addictive.

Some people have fewer receptors than others, though, which is why some people eat and eat and eat yet still don't feel satiated.

We produce loads of the feel-good chemicals, but because they're not binding with receptors, we're not getting the payout.

We need to truly flood our brain with these chemicals in order to get the same effect as, say, some lucky bugger who can eat just one biscuit and carries on like they've just hosted an orgy.

Danger foods! Binges...

From my own personal experience, I find certain foods trigger an uncontrollable binge.

Just before Easter, for example, hot cross buns were on sale at my local supermarket. Yum! Obviously, I took advantage of the generous offer to buy three packs for the price of two, harbouring good intentions to freeze two packs and leave one in the breadbin.

Well, the second pack wasn't even chilly before I was tearing off the wrapper with my teeth. I would still be eating hot cross buns now only I chose not to buy any more. I know to avoid them because they contain a magic ingredient that triggers an episode of compulsion in me.

I had a similar problem with scotch pancakes and anything containing milk chocolate.

Instead of my usual chocolate bars, I tried another brand. This didn't work. I ate them with as much enthusiasm as I did the others.

Instead of milk chocolate, I opted for dark chocolate. Immediately, I found I lost my compulsion to overeat chocolate. In fact, I've had two bars of dark chocolate untouched in the fridge for days.

Do you know which foods contain the secret magic ingredient that makes you lose control?

For this to work, make sure you buy only the safe foods on your list. See how it goes.

Foods for diabetes

There are many foods made just for people with diabetes. These range from biscuits to cakes to sweets to cereal to fizzy drinks. On the whole, these foods are cack.

They use sugar substitute instead of the real deal. You may wanna note that the long-term effects have not been thoroughly studied, so this could be a timebomb waiting to go off.

Another issue around diabetic sweeties is sorbitol. This is used to sweeten the food, but a side-effect of eating too much is jelly belly and diarrhoea, so it's probably best to leave it be.

On the whole, it's safer to eat natural food, and cut down on processed garbage...

There are so many diets, theories, recipes, and books floating around that it's easy to get overwhelmed by it all. And NO ONE has the time or energy to sort through the countless number of websites trying to piece together the perfect diet for you.

So, here is a wonderful site showing you how to eat healthily, the easy way:

THE BEST OF RAW FOOD

FREE DIABETIC DIETS