DISCOVER THE BEST MEAL PLAN FOR DIABETES
Calculating Meal Plan For Diabetes
Choosing to eat healthier foods and following our meal plan is another important factor of your overall diabetes reversal program and can help you keep blood sugar levels under control.
Our supervisor through the help of our nutritionist will daily create a meal plan that’s right for you using your fasting blood sugar level and weight data they collect.
During the Diabetes Reversal Plan, you will
1, Eat a variety of foods in the right amounts
2, Eat regularly
3, Balance how much you eat with other factors
Your food choices can be healthy and tasty. Healthy eating includes eating a variety of foods, such as:
vegetables
whole grains
fruits
beans
lean meats
poultry
fish
Many of the foods you like can be planned in a healthier way to help you balance your diet.
Our nutritionists will help you make a plan based on the foods you like best. They can even make a shopping list based on the recipes you choose. Now your personal tastes can be part of a healthy plan.
Sticking to your meal plan can have a positive impact on:
- Blood sugar levels
- Weight
- Blood cholesterol
- Blood pressure
Why Healthy Eating Matters
Healthy eating through Meal Planning can help you reverse your blood sugar. This is one of the most important factors that will help reverse your diabetes. With the help from our diabetes health, reversing your diabetes can taste good too. Our meal plan can include a lot of the foods you love.
Meal Planning can:
1. Help you improve your health.
By following our meal plan, you can help improve your health. And healthy eating, as part of your overall diabetes reversal plan, can help bring down your blood sugar to our target range.
2. Help you avoid high and low blood sugar levels
Following a meal plan that makes sure you get the right food groups in the right amounts can help reverse blood sugar levels.
Over time, blood sugar levels that are too high (hyperglycemia) can cause problems. And blood sugarlevels that are too low (hypoglycemia) can make you feel dizzy, weak, irritable, shaky, and sweaty. Following your meal plan can help you avoid both of these.
3. Help you maintain a healthy weight
As you work with our health supervisors, you will feel more and more able to make healthy food choices. Ask our supervisors about a healthy range for your weight. Working toward this goal can also help you reverse your blood sugar.
Carbohydrates and Blood Sugar
Carbohydrates (or carbs), proteins, and fats are the main nutrients in food that give your body energy. Sugars and starchy foods are examples of carbs. Carbs can raise blood sugar levels more than other nutrients. That’s why it’s important to be aware of the amount of carbs you eat.
Natural sugars found in foods like milk and fruits are called simple carbohydrates. Simple carbohydrates may also be added to certain foods when they are made, like heavy syrup that is added to canned fruit. Simple carbohydrates, which are broken down faster than complex carbohydrates, will begin to raise blood sugar levels very soon after you eat them.
Complex carbohydrates, like starches, take longer to break down in the body. As a result, complex carbohydrates take longer to impact blood sugar, causing the amount of sugar in the blood to rise more slowly.
Fiber is the third type of carbohydrate. It is the part of plant foods, like vegetables, fruits, nuts, beans, and whole grains, that cannot be digested. Fiber helps prevent constipation. It also helps you feel full after eating and may lower cholesterol levels.
Foods containing more carbohydrates are:
Starches—bread, cereal, crackers, grains, rice, pasta
Starchy vegetables—potatoes, corn, peas, beans.
All fruits and fruit juices
Milk and yogurt
Sugary foods—candy, regular soda, jelly
Sweets—cakes, cookies, pies, ice cream
Food groups that don’t normally have carbohydrates are proteins and fats.
Because carbohydrates raise blood sugar more than other types of foods, you may wonder why you should eat them at all. You need to eat foods with carbohydrates because they provide your body with energy, along with many vitamins and minerals.
How big is 1 serving?
One serving of bread, fresh fruit, or plain fat-free yogurt has about 15 grams of carbohydrates (or carbs). The size of a single serving varies with the type of food. Serving sizes are often smaller than what you are used to eating. With the help of our food measuring scale, you will find it easier to weigh or measure your food to find out your serving sizes.
Serving sizes can be described in different ways, depending on the type of food being measured. Usually, a single serving is smaller than your normal meal and it will be explained to you by the health supervisor.
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