Hi
@TheMiziko I'm guessing from your name and your question that you live in Japan? My diabetes was diagnosed when I still lived in an Asian rice-with-everything culture, and I did find rice very hard to give up. I didn't try brown rice (it wasn't available as far as I could find out), but long-grain, short-grain and basmati, whether steamed, boiled or fried, by the bowl or in the form of congee, nian-gao, wontons or rice noodles - ALL raised my blood sugar.
In the end I tried the mind experiment of substituting salad for rice - I mean, I thought about salad whenever I used to think of rice, I ordered accordingly at restaurants and I asked my helper to serve salad instead of rice or noodles.
It was a bit odd at first, but surprisingly quickly I got used to having, say, sesame chicken or stir-fried beef or ma-po beancurd served on a green salad. And my blood sugar came down beautifully.
That's pretty much what I still do, though now I've moved to England I have to resist potatoes, bread, spaghetti, etc. instead of just rice and noodles. But salad is still the staple of my diet and my blood sugar is still under control.
Kate