YOU CAN ADD FLAVER TO YOUR FOODS BY USEING DIFFRENT SPICES AND HERBS. THIS IS WHAT I DO. I THOUGHT THE SAME THING ABOUT THE DIET FOR A DIABETIC AND THEN I FOUND WAYS TO MAKE IT TASTE BETTER WITHOUT MAKEING MY BS GO UP.IF YOU EAT COOKED VEGIES TRY SPRINKLING THEM WITH A SPICE OF SOME KIND.STIR IT UP MAKE IT TASTE GREAT SO YOU KEEP WITH IT.I KNOW ITS HARD BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT YOU CAN LOSE WEIGHT AND EAT GREAT FOOD DOING IT.THE BIGGEST THING FOR ME IS THE PORTIONS. I LIKE TO EAT AND THATS WHY I AM TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT BECAUSE MY PORTIONS HAVE BEEN REAL BIG FOR TOO LONG.SO I HAVE CUT THEM BACK AND AM TRYING THIS NEW THING ABOUT SIX MINI MEALS A DAY. I DOES WORK I AM NOT HUNGRY AND DONT FEEL DEPRIVED OF FOOD BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE I AM ALWAYS EATING SOMETHING. I HAVE ALSO PUT MY SNACKS TOGETHER LIKE I WILL HAVE A FRUIT ,OR SOME RAW VEGIES,OR A HANDFUL OF NUTS. JUST SOMETHING TO MUNCH SO I AM NOT ADDING TOO MUCH AT A TIME.THERE ARE SOME NEW GROUPS IN THE OBESITY GROUP, YOU CAN CHECK INTO THEM ALSO AND GET ALOT OF IDEAS. EVEN HERE IN THIS ONE THERE IS A GROUP WITH RECIPIES,CHECK IT OUT AND TRY ONE OR TWO.

Some people are able to control blood sugar through diet and exercise alone, but not all can. You may or may not be able to. Food doesn't have to taste nasty to be good for us. I've started a diabetic recipes group here just for the purpose of sharing good recipes that we can all eat. Feel free to join.

http://dailystrength.org/groups/diabeticrecipes


You can also search out diabetic recipes for free online. They are great and tastey. I use one at every family gathering, and noone can tell it's diabetic food. :)

Thanks for the suggestions. I will certainly look at the recipes since I am beginning to think I will have to be on this diet for life.

Just remember that most diabetic "diets" are what every one of us diabetic or not SHOULD be eating anyway. The thing is noone really eats healthy unless they have to, and even then sometimes we don't. The key factor for most is portion control. And by that I mean checking the packaging and strictly following those guidelines. It's easy to put more then a portion of spaghetti on a plate and not even know it. You just have to remember to add fruit and veggies. For me the challenge is carbs. I'm a carb queen. Taters, bread, rice, pasta.... mmmmmm... My mouth is watering now.. LOL.. On a serious note there are healthy yummy snacks to help get me through the day, along with a good nutritious dinner.. It's definately hard to come up with different meals especially when you're as picky as I am... So I thought the group for recipes would be a great resource to mix it up a bit. I'm also pulling from another quick easy meal group and trying to adjust the recipes I find there to fit us here in this group. But won't post until I try it out first.. Mixing ingredients can sometimes result in some pretty awful things.. LOL

I am so confused about what foods I should eat. If I eat carbs, my blood sugar goes up. Even fruit is out according to my glucometer. If I eat protein I've read that my kidneys may suffer. If I eat fat, I may get heart disease or arterial plaque.

I don't know what I can eat really. Except mass quantities of vegetables and due to the fact that I have blood coagulation problems, there are very few vegetables I can eat because some vegies affect coagulation.

When I walk to exercise my feet hurt like heck.

You know what? I think I'll just enjoy the last few years and eat what I want. Who cares anyway?

Dan you said, "You know what? I think I'll just enjoy the last few years and eat what I want. Who cares anyway?"
Dan the trouble with that thinking is that the bad part about diabetes is some really scarey complications. You could have a stroke and end up living like a vegetable. I know this of course but it still makes eating difficult because we all just want our lives to go back to what we thought normal was. So I guess I have to feed myself the vegetables or someone else might be doing it for me and I know I wouldn't like that! I am too much of a control freak to turn over that kind of power to someone else. hehe :)

Well, then if it's going to be me as a vegetable I'll have to make it quick and deadly.

Not seriously, but I have found that I can take Glyburide just before a meal of carbs and my blood sugar doesn't go up much at all.

I've read that Glyburide, however, stresses out the pancreas and wears it out quickly. I don't want to be on insulin, but then I can eat anything I want and just up my dosage of insulin.

I've lived a full life anyway, so as long as nobody has to change my diapers, I may take the easy way out.... LOL

Yeah, the diapers part would certainly make me take better care of myself too.
It sure would be nice if someone could figure out what causes diabetes and come up with a cure. In the meantime I guess I will try to lose weight in hopes that I don't have to continue taking these drugs forever. You know none of the drugs are really good for us either. There are side effects and complications with all of them. Our liver for one is being comprimised.
So I just have to find a way to enjoy vegetables.

dan I've been on glyburide for about 10 years now. My panc. isn't working any less effecient as it did when I was first diagnosed. There has been no testing done to prove that glyburide causes the pancreas to wear out any faster, or that it causes diabetes to progress any faster. All medications have different reactions with different people. I love my glyburide and had to fight to get it back. It's the only pill that really works for me.

There are book out about this subject,it is true some people have been able to come off medication due to diet which aids weight loss. I have just got a good book by ANTONY WORREL THOMPSON,IT'S AVAILABLE ON AMAZON. It's called THE DIABETES WEIGHT LOSS DIET. Hope this helps Barbara

LadyBarbara
Thanks for the book suggestion - I will try to get that and see if it helps and/or has some good recipes. I really want to try the weight loss thing and see if that will allow me to go off medication. Speaking of medication, what is glypburide? I have never heard of it till today. Is it like glypiside?