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Learn what a diabetic diet, or diabetic mealplan, is! Learn the amount of carbs every meal should have, the balance of meal,vegetables, and starches in your meals, what fast absorbing and slow absorbing foods are, and lots more.

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i am looking for meal plans for a diabetic thats on a 2000 calorie meal plan restricted diet.

Much good luck on that one!! Most hospitals, dieticians and nutritionists follow the USDA food pyramid for meal planning. They do not take into consideration that each of us is individual and cannot eat all the foods recommended for diabetics.

I suggest that you consult an Endocrinologist and Certified Diabetes Educator in your area.

I have on record, that the doctor that admits me to hospital ask my daughter what foods to include on my plate and that I be allowed to administer all my own maintainance meds from my personal supply.

I cannot eat most of the carby foods on the list of "good for diabetics" foods! I would much rather see people watch the grams of carbohydrate per plate than a set number of calories.

I really need a week’s menu for this its for my foods class any help would be GREATLY appreciated

I think it depends on the diabetic and the type of food. I wouldn’t stress too much about it because it will take some detailed food journals and many many many blood test. eventually you will find what works best for you, everybody has their own unique blood chemistry.

My sugars have been within the normal range for the last 2 years w/o medication. I can eat almost anything except: pasta, ice cream… which both cause a spike in my sugars for ~2 days. For the most part everything else in moderation works well for me, but for some reason it doesn’t matter how little I eat of those two foods they still effects my sugar negatively. (It sucked because I used to eat these all the time… 1 gallon of icecream/week and pasta 2-3/week)

What allows me to be normal:
Lost 35 pounds and now I work out 90 minutes a day 5 times a week and I am in very good shape.

Exercise and weight loss if possible are the real cure. Diet is also important, but only one aspect.

My husband had his blood drawn and they found his fasting blood glucose to be 180. Does this mean he has Type 1 diabetes or can this happen sometimes at random? Please help
The odd thing is that he is far from overweight, and he doesn’t like carbs. He’ll take meat over potatoes any day. The one thing that he doesn’t do is eat meals on a regular basis, sometimes he’ll go till 3 or 4 pm without eating, or he’ll just drink an ensure.

90-95% of all diabetics are Type 2, which means that your husband is producing an adequate amount of insulin but his cells are resistant to the insulin. The insulin is having a difficult time entering the cells to release glucose for energy throughout his body, thus the buildup of glucose in his blood is causing his elevated blood sugars.

The good news is that his reading of 180 mg/dl converts to an A1c of about 7.2% of glucose in his blood……Normal or non-diabetic A1c’s should be less than 6%, so that should be his ultimate goal.

The way to achieve that goal is to lose excess pounds if he’s overweight.

Increase his level of exercise….exercise burns excess glucose rather quickly.

He should be eating healthy well balanced meals in smaller portions with a target of lowering his carbohydrate intake. The foods that adversely effect most Type 2 diabetics are the white starchy foods as in pasta’s, potatoes, rice and breads, they are loaded with carbohydrates which turns into glucose which in turn will cause his blood sugars to elevate and remain elevated for longer periods of time.

Don’t worry about your husband being a Type 1 diabetic, if he was he would have known that well before this.