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What should I be doing for meals?

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My husband has been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes less than a week ago. He is able to control it with medication but also he has been told to lose weight. (He's 6'3 and 16 1/2 stone).
We obviously are looking at his diet, but the problem is I don't know where to start!!

We need to find something that is compatible for us both as I am on a low residue diet due to Crohns disease and so I am unable to eat a lot of vegetables and fruit.

I would really appreciate if anyone could give me some basic tips. So far we have ditched the butter, bought him some wholemeal bread (we normally have white...), we are also looking closely at the sugar content of everything. We have also ditched the high sugar cereals and gone for low sugar, and also changed the different fizzy drinks that we had.

What else could we do please as we need to come to a good compromise so that we aren't having to buy two different sets of foods! It would be both expensive and complicated!!!!

Thank you so much and I am glad we found you.

KG :lol:
 
Hi there

Welcome to the forum - is your husband testing his blood sugar and if so, what are his readings? If he has to lose weight and keep his sugars nice and steady he will almost certainly have to reduce carbohydrates in his diet and that means increasing protein and plenty of low/medium carb vegetables and to some extent fruit. Dont worry about the fats, incl butter, just cut out transfats and have the healthy versions, eg olive oil, butter is fine too, so are animal fats, its the hydrogenated fats that we need to worry about.
I suggest that you and your husband read the posts in this forum and get hold of the diabetics bible = Dr Bernsteins The Diabetes Solution and ask questions in here if there is anything that needs further explanation or if you need advice, support and encouragement, you will find all that in here.

Re your Crohn's disease, ouch, thats not very nice to have I know but cutting out transfats is good for you too and I wonder, have you ever considered making your own kefir, its good for anyone but particularly for people suffering from bowel disorders and diabetics too, excellent probiotics there.

Do you currently have a high carb diet? What do you normally do for meals? Give us an example of a typical days eating and we can maybe make some suggestions for you to make some adjustments but still be suitable for both of you? We could try at least.

All the best

Karen
 
Hi KG,

Karen's advice is spot on as usual.
Between you and me, she has frankly appalling taste in men and shoes, but when it comes to diabetes, she knows her onions.

All the best,

fergus
 
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