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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RebeccaSmith" data-source="post: 158495" data-attributes="member: 12559">I was referred to a dietician the day that I was diagnosed with type1. Pre-diabetes, my lunch consisted of hot chocolate, a bar of chocolate and a packet of wine gums. When the dietician said that I was allowed a treat of one 'celebration' sized chocolate a week, I wanted to punch her. In reality, it's not realistic. It's too difficult to live life on a 'perfect diet,' which probably wouldn't give you everything that you need anyway. In my experience it is better to have a bit of everything in moderation.Bacon is bad everyday, but once a week won't hurt. You mentioned fruits to avoid...I know a type 2 diabetic who thinks that fruits are perfectly fine to eat because they are 'natural sugars...' Er, it's kind of in the name..sugar. All fruits have sugar in, and regardless of whether they are natural or artificial, they will stay play havoc on ones bloods. Exotic fruits are the worse and I very, very rarely have them because they are really particularly bad - for example, mango, papaya, pineapple. Bananas for example have about 12g of sugar in them. Fruits that I tend to eat include, strawberries and apples.Brown bread and brown pasta is deffo better than the white stuff, but as I said earlier, everything in moderation is good. I usually have porridge for breakfast as the oats reduce cholesteral (I had high cholesteral, and it is an effect of diabetes), a salad sandwhich with brown bread and an apple for lunch, and something with vegetables and rice for dinner. I find if I have a pudding, that my bloods linger quite high for most of the night, so if the sweet tooth is really bad, I have sugar free jelly to hand or a low calorie hot chocolate (don't confuse low fat with less sugar though!!). I also try and have my 'pudding' during the day, as it allows me to keep a better eye on what my bloods are doing.This website is amazing for looking at the nutritional values of all kinds of products:<a href="http://caloriecount.about.com/" target="_blank">http://caloriecount.about.com/</a>It breaks it down into sugars, carbs etc, so have a look and take note of what is bad...I wouldn't say that tomato sauce with pasta is bad - mayonaise would be worse! The trick is not too avoid sugar, but learn to live with less of it. Good luck!!</blockquote>

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