By Michelle May MD, co-author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes Our environment is loaded with triggers for eating when we’re not really hungry and for continuing to eat past the point of satiety – wreaking havok on your blood sugar control! Learning to recognize these triggers and respond in an …
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The purpose of meal planning is to help lower your blood sugar after meals. To determine if your dietary changes are successful, consider conducting an experiment. The purpose of this experiment is to help you figure out how different types and amounts of food affect your blood sugar. For this experiment, you’ll need the following: …
By Michelle May, MD and Megrette Fletcher, M.Ed., RD., CDCES authors of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes If you have diabetes you may have heard that you need to eat on a rigid schedule. That may have been true 10, 20 or 30 years ago when medication options were limited. …
By Michelle May, MD and Megrette Fletcher, M.Ed., RD., CDCES, authors of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes There is no simple formula for managing diabetes, but mindfulness can help you stop the downward spiral of overeating, inactivity, elevated blood sugars, fatigue, and worsening insulin resistance. How? You can start by …
By Megrette Fletcher M.Ed, R.D, CDCES, Co-author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes While the cause is not fully understood, Type 2 diabetes results from a series of problems. The first problem is insulin resistance. Just as it sounds, the fat, muscle and liver cells resist the effects of insulin. Insulin’s job …
By Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDCES, Co-author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes Why Do We Overeat? Why do people eat past comfortable fullness, eat when they are not hungry, or eat in a mindless way? Eating provides pleasure or a temporary distraction. For example, if you are feeling bored, …
If you or someone you care about has prediabetes or diabetes, you’ll find helpful resources here to help you manage diabetes mindfully (from Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes available from your local bookstores, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble). Using the Mindful Eating Cycle for Diabetes Self-Management Download Diabetes and Mindful …
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Even if you have prediabetes or diabetes, you can eat what you love by learning how to use mindfulness–awareness, balance, and intention–to guide you. How does mindful eating help with diabetes? With mindful eating, you will: Savor every aspect of eating–even though you have diabetes! Eat what you love without guilt or fear of losing …
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By Megrette Fletcher, M.Ed, RD, CDCES Co-author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes So, you want to add variety to your diet. How can you do this if you have diabetes? Consider using the concept of “food swapping.” Regardless of the method used – Point System, Carbohydrate Exchange or Guiding …
By Megrette Fletcher M.Ed, RD, CDCES Co-Author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes Is it possible to have a superhero for a vegetable? A vegetable that is mild-mannered, unassuming and often overlooked in the crowd of produce, disguised not by a pair of unfashionable glasses but by its distance from …
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