basically it is a healthy diet - stay away from white breads (do the light versions, wheat etc) white potatoes (try sweet potatoes) rice, and pastas (buy dreamfield brand) these items have starch which processes the foods differently and keeps the numbers up. Watch your portion controls, get a small food scale to measure/weigh, stay away from fried foods since the fats are not healthy for you.

Yes you can eat fruits, veggies, tho carrots have a high natural sugar in them, corn can cause a problem with some also.

Test when you get up, then two hours after a meal, and at night. If you only test 3 times a day as most of us, then do the morning/night and rotate the 3rd each day, say after breakfast one day, lunch the next, then dinner, you can even test right before a meal also

If sweets are a problem with you, then don't eat them if you can't eat 1/2portion. Count your carbs to see how you are doing, you don't have to do this constantly, but it helps to keep you on track if you do monitor a week out of a month. I use sparkle and lose it sites to help. With sparkle you can also track things like calcium, etc

Yes it is easy to get off track, we all have done so, but realize you need to do this for your health and in time it will become natural to do this things...come talk to us when you want to grab those donuts, etc and have you seen a dietician? they can help you also.

Thank you Gayle, I really appreciate your help. For some reason, I just feel over whelmed again. I've been eating sweets, like I don't have a problem, and I know that can't be good.

Not sure I can buy Dreamfield here in Canada, but I'll have a look. What would be a good carb count to stay within?

I know its the season, but I think I need to forget that and just get things back in control. I have not seen a dietician for years.

I use the book The calorie King book to judge carbs for my meals with my husband. He is the diabetic...so we (he is 6'5") do 3 carb points (45 carbs) for breakfast, 4 for lunch and 5 for dinner..and he has some snacks...stays under 15, closer to 12, and he is on track with his blood sugar.
I keep a can of nuts around for if he is hungry and no carbs. meat, too...we don't worry too much on fats because we don't fry, and don't eat lots of fatty meats, except he eats beacon often...for breakfast.

Thank you, blueviolet.

pretty much the average for us is about 35-45 carbs for meals, and about 15-20 for snacks. Try celery or something with no carbs or less than 5 to much on when you get the urge to eat...of course watch how many portions of the very low carbs you eat since of course that would be 5 carbs times the portions

Ok thank you, seems I've forgotten a whole lot, need to re-educate myself all over again, until this is second nature.