bonny said:
He eats cereal or eggs for breakfast
soups or sandwich mostly cheese for lunch
home cooked meal of chicken with either pasta or rice.
For snacks he has nuts and raisins, fruit.
He is on Metformin only 2 x 500mg
Drinks alcohol liberally, like guinness.
He has the ocassional cake or biscuit but mostly Jacobs Crackers.
The eggs for breakfast are fine, tell him to add bacon and mushrooms as well, that will help fill him, the cereal is not good, and needs to go.
The sandwiches for lunch, hmm, that will depend on the bread, but I will lay odds if you look at the nutritional information on the back, the carbs are high. Most here who eat bread (I don't) eat Burgen soya and linseed as it is about the lowest carb. Ditch the white bread anyway, it's nasty stuff and will spike him. Cheese is absolutely fine.
The pasta and rice, not good, and I bet they are white as well. If he must have these, change to basmati rice and tri coloured pasta, I don't eat these either. His snacks are fine, apart from the fruit, most fruit is just concentrated sugar, but almost all of us can tolerate berries, strawberry's, raspberry's blueberry's etc.
The booze is also carby, a 330L bottle has 9g carbs. I certainly wouldn't stop him having a beer, but it needs to be in moderation, alcohol is empty calories and empty carbs, much better use the carbs on tasty food. The crackers also have to go, three crackers are 18g of carbs. So as you can see his carb intake is high, if he cut down the carbs, he wouldn't feel hungry, fat and protein are much more satiating than carbs and his BG figures would drop. The Metformin is only likely to drop him a point or so, it's a very safe drug, but doesn't do a lot really.
I'm sorry to be the harbinger of bad news, but if hubby changes things around, he really will feel the difference, have much more energy and lose weight, it's really easy to lose weight on a low carb diet.
Good luck - Joanna.