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I was diagnosed as type 2 back in Janury of this year.
I've improved a lot (actually hell of a lot ) since being diagnosed. I place most of the improvement on eating properly.
The reasons I am eating properly is because I payed attention in my diabetes education classes, listened to my doctors and dietitian, did a lot of research on my own, quit listening to non-professional people such as co-workers, advertisements, friends, family, etc ..., AND never ate out.
This past Saturday was my mom's 80th birthday party. So I was pretty much obliged to eat out. I wasn't too worried though. Because my brother and I reserved the restaurant with a buffet. And I specifically asked about having lots of vegetables available and being able to bring my own salad dressing due to my diabetes. They assured me that the buffet would have a large salad bar section and that it was not a problem for me to bring my own dressing.
Well their "large" salad section was a 4-quart bowl of iceberg lettuce with a small covering of 1 very thinly sliced tomato, onion slices, and a dozen of non-pittted olives.
WTF ?! Only 4-quarts of lettuce for 60 people ??
And nearly everything else was loaded with carbs. Such as rice, white bread, pasta, etc ...
They did have a carving station that had four different meats. It consisted of roast beef, roasted turkey, roasted ham, and salmon.
BUT the employees doing the carving couldn't tell me what was on each meat.
The most I got out of them was that the salmon had a "wine sauce" on it.
My own salads have very little lettuce.
My own salads are at least 2-quarts, weigh about 5-lbs, have baby carrots, walnuts, a whole cucumber, a whole x-large red or orange bell pepper (green peppers are nutritionally useless), cherry or grape tomatoes, black olives, sometimes blueberries, broccoli, jalapeno slices, and the leafy green is only about 25% of the 2-quarts. AND it is never nutritionally defunct iceberg lettuce !
It's usually spinach; but some times romaine lettuce or kale.
I have at least two of these salads per day.
Is it only Americans who think "salad" means a small plate consisting of 95% cheap iceberg lettuce ?
Or is that the whole world's idea of a salad ?
And how does everyone else handle eating out ?
(Assuming you actually take care of yourself and are controlling your diabetes.)
--ET
I've improved a lot (actually hell of a lot ) since being diagnosed. I place most of the improvement on eating properly.
The reasons I am eating properly is because I payed attention in my diabetes education classes, listened to my doctors and dietitian, did a lot of research on my own, quit listening to non-professional people such as co-workers, advertisements, friends, family, etc ..., AND never ate out.
This past Saturday was my mom's 80th birthday party. So I was pretty much obliged to eat out. I wasn't too worried though. Because my brother and I reserved the restaurant with a buffet. And I specifically asked about having lots of vegetables available and being able to bring my own salad dressing due to my diabetes. They assured me that the buffet would have a large salad bar section and that it was not a problem for me to bring my own dressing.
Well their "large" salad section was a 4-quart bowl of iceberg lettuce with a small covering of 1 very thinly sliced tomato, onion slices, and a dozen of non-pittted olives.
WTF ?! Only 4-quarts of lettuce for 60 people ??
And nearly everything else was loaded with carbs. Such as rice, white bread, pasta, etc ...
They did have a carving station that had four different meats. It consisted of roast beef, roasted turkey, roasted ham, and salmon.
BUT the employees doing the carving couldn't tell me what was on each meat.
The most I got out of them was that the salmon had a "wine sauce" on it.
My own salads have very little lettuce.
My own salads are at least 2-quarts, weigh about 5-lbs, have baby carrots, walnuts, a whole cucumber, a whole x-large red or orange bell pepper (green peppers are nutritionally useless), cherry or grape tomatoes, black olives, sometimes blueberries, broccoli, jalapeno slices, and the leafy green is only about 25% of the 2-quarts. AND it is never nutritionally defunct iceberg lettuce !
It's usually spinach; but some times romaine lettuce or kale.
I have at least two of these salads per day.
Is it only Americans who think "salad" means a small plate consisting of 95% cheap iceberg lettuce ?
Or is that the whole world's idea of a salad ?
And how does everyone else handle eating out ?
(Assuming you actually take care of yourself and are controlling your diabetes.)
--ET