Im so new to this diabetes thing as for modifiying it myself. Maybe I need to buy me one of those books to help me plan my meals. I have diabetes all around me but I never paid attention to how I am suppose to monitor myself. I would here my mom say O I can't eat that it will raise my glucose but I never thought I would have to say those words. I get like sandwiches out of the machine and Gatorades instead of sodas.
First, gatorade has AS MUCH SUGAR as soda, as was mentioned in the post just before mine. It also comes in a serving size larger than most sodas, so most people drink MORE SUGAR with gatorade, than with a coke... Don't drink it, please. If you must drink at lunch, have water or diet soda
(if you know diet soda doesn't spike you.) Another alternative is a small glass of whole
(not skim) milk, depending on your reactions to milk.
Sandwiches from the machines will most surely be made of less-expensive breads using refined flours and either sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, or both. These should be avoided.
It would be best to make your own lunch and bring it with you, absolutely.
Regarding the books.... Watch out, most diabetic cookbooks are using guidelines that will keep your sugars elevated, amazingly enough. Almost all of them strive to get an ADA
(American Diabetes Association) seal of approval
(in order to both 'look credible' and increase sales) and the ADA is primarily funded by drug companies who have a vested interested in keeping your sugars elevated...
Your best bet is to eat low-carb as much as possible - get the majority of your carbs from healthy veggies
(avoid potatoes, corn and parsnips) and a little fruit
(eat only types of fruit and quantities that maintain a healthy blood glucose) and get the rest of your calories from proteins and healthy fats. Oh, and saturated fat IS healthy... what you want to avoid is trans-fat... which is anything that says "hydrogenated" on the label...
Basically what it boils down to is using your meter to determine what you can
(and cannot) eat... We call it "eating to your meter" and it works. =)
