I’m on both of those and have always been a heavy sugar/carb eater. I have PCOS, btw. I managed to get off soda and coffee completely, but everything else like pasta, bread, and ice cream and chocolate are like impossible for me to get off. I do prefer wheat over white and wish they offered wheat bread at more fast food places when I absolutely have to eat out. I have braces so I don’t eat sticky candies obviously, but unfortunately can eat hard veggies. I stopped drinking since I started these meds. I’m worried about becoming diabetic. My fasting sugar is 96 but my glucose tolerance is high. My typical diet is too many calories first of all and so stressed with school that it’s hard to cut down. I drink water and juice, but can’t go a day without a small milkshake usually from mcdonalds. I also have to have dessert after every meal. I mainly eat pasta dishes and sandwiches with poultry or pb and j. I would like to have fresh fruit instead of milkshakes, and wondering if this is a good way to change my diet as soon as possible. I kept eating like this since I was on those meds but really want to cut out sugar and cut my calorie intake from 2500 down to 1500 a day. I would so do it tomorrow, but afraid that if I just drastically change my diet right away that I’ll become hypoglycemic. Help! I really don’t wanna develop diabetes.

My father-in-law is diabetic (slightly) so he tries not to eat anything that diabetics cant eat. For 4th of July I was going to make an angel food cake with low fat/sugar free whipped cream on the top with fruit layers on top of that.

My dilemma – i looked up the recipe for angel food cake and there is sugar in it – i was going to just buy an angel food cake at the store, but now that i see it has sugar would it be ok for my father-in-law to eat?

Any suggestions for a dessert for diabetics would be appreciated (easy recipes and easy to travel with).

I ate a bowl of oatmeal, a banana and had coffee this morning morning, I had a handful of almonds for a midmorning snack, for lunch I had a tuna salad sandwich with a yogurt, for a snack I ate an apple with some cheese slices and then for dinner I had baked chicken with brown rice and mixed veggies. My dessert was a strawberry cheesecake flavored yogurt. Ok I don’t know if this is a lot to eat but to me it seemed pretty healthy. So why am I sitting here at 8 pm freaking ravished. I feel all shaky and my belly is growling. I had over 1500 calories with carbs and proteins so why am I still starving. Every time I eat healthy I end up starving no matter what I eat. I’m tired of spending extra money on healthy food only to end up raiding my fridge at night b/c my belly won’t stop growling and I feel my blood sugar drop. I’m not diabetic I’m just trying to lose weight. What can I do?

My dad has type 2 diabetes. He’s had it for a few years but after spending some time in the hospital recently for nearly slipping into a diabetic coma, he finally has decided to take it seriously (thank GOD).

I’ve been trying for years to help him out by making sugar-free treats, since he’s quite the sweet tooth, but I’m realizing I need to learn more. When I look at the nutrition labels, I don’t know what’s healthy and what’s not. What’s considered an “okay” amount of calories and carbs? I know the lower the better, but how low is that? It seems impossible to avoid them altogether.

Specifically this is bothering me right now because he’s got a birthday coming up and I’m throwing him a surprise party, and I would love to make him some chocolate cupcakes. I think he should be able to enjoy his favorite food on his birthday, just not at the cost of his health. What amount of calories, carbs, and sugar is safe for him to eat in a dessert?

Thanks in advance for the help.
I don’t know if this makes a difference, but he’s 46, he doesn’t exercise but he walks a LOT during the day at work. He’s had his blood sugar around 100 for the past couple weeks.
The reason I’m making cupcakes is so he’s not tempted to eat more than one serving size. I plan on making just enough for all the people at the birthday party.
For the desserts I try to use stevia rather than aspartame or other fake sugars.

My dad has type 2 diabetes. He’s had it for a few years but after spending some time in the hospital recently for nearly slipping into a diabetic coma, he finally has decided to take it seriously (thank GOD).

I’ve been trying for years to help him out by making sugar-free treats, since he’s quite the sweet tooth, but I’m realizing I need to learn more. When I look at the nutrition labels, I don’t know what’s healthy and what’s not. What’s considered an “okay” amount of calories and carbs? I know the lower the better, but how low is that? It seems impossible to avoid them altogether.

Specifically this is bothering me right now because he’s got a birthday coming up and I’m throwing him a surprise party, and I would love to make him some chocolate cupcakes. I think he should be able to enjoy his favorite food on his birthday, just not at the cost of his health. What amount of calories, carbs, and sugar is safe for him to eat in a dessert?

Thanks in advance for the help.
I don’t know if this makes a difference, but he’s 46, he doesn’t exercise but he walks a LOT during the day at work. He’s had his blood sugar around 100 for the past couple weeks.
The reason I’m making cupcakes is so he’s not tempted to eat more than one serving size. I plan on making just enough for all the people at the birthday party.
For the desserts I try to use stevia rather than aspartame or other fake sugars.

We’ll I am 5’6 I think, I weight 140 or 145
My parents force me to eat at fast food and stuff like that i hate it.
Then they ask me you want a dessert with that?
Of course I say no But they buy it anyways and expect me to eat it..Im starting to hate it to we barely have any healthy
foods canned foods, noodles, I swear Ima turn diabetic soon
I try to excerise with my music everytime I have the energy
But I rarely have any Help please,
I try to have 2 cheese strings one mini pasta thing for lunch and 1 apple juice I really want my cute body back
I get teased for being overweight and sometimes I just wanna shoot myself.

Thanks In Advance

I’m going to my grandparents house with my mom. I love to cook and bake want to prove that i’m a really good cook. Do you have any recipies for like breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, snacks?? Anything is good. Please say if it’s really sugary because, my grandpa is a diabetic. I need something that I don’t have to slave over all day to make. I’d really appreciate it.
I need something that isn’t very fattening, or loaded with sugar. =) But anything is good, so i can use them for a get together, or party.

Well, a friend of mine has been on exchange for four months, and she’s coming home next Saturday, and I was thinking of making her a surprise breakfast- type thing, with all of our friends and family. Except….. I’m not quite sure what to make her. She’s a vegetarian, and she’s also diabetic, so no extravagantly sweet things, please. I need a few easy and quick breakfast recipes for next Saturday. Please leave the recipes below (I was also wondering if you guys could give me a good dessert recipe for someone with diabetes. Some form of dessert that’s not too sweet). Thank you very much!

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this really isnt a question. but its a way for me to vent and see if others out there are dealing with the same thing. im 24 and i found out im type 2 diabetic last feb. i was really sick when i found out and since have had many problems dealing with it. the doctors put me on meds and pretty much gave me the diet and exercise lecture. i didnt take them too seriously then. no one in my family is diabetic and none of my friends. i kept it to myself pretty much. but within the past several months many other health concerns came up. occasional high blood pressure and high cholesterol. i started to lose a little weight. but eventually put it back on plus a couple. within the past couple months i finally put my foot down and said i need to change my health or im going to kill myself at this rate. im not a kid anymore and i cant continue to gain weight and eat the way i do..

i am trying to hard to change my ways. but its hurting my relationship with my boyfriend. i dont have prescription coverage. so my meds and test strips are out of pocket. in order to eat better i have to spend a little more for lean meats and more veggies. even when we eat out it can be a little more expensive cause i have to make a lot of changes to the meals. places charge you extra to sub the fries or add a salad sorta thing. but my boyfriend doesnt see the entire picture. i have to do these things. he will go grocery shopping and buy hot dogs and chicken tenders and mac and cheese and wonder why i get so upset. he gets mad when im not making cookies and brownies. i cant have the junk food around me cause then i want to eat it. cant lose weight and manage blood sugar with all the wrong foods around me. he will still bring home pizzas and want to eat out all the time. it gets so frustrating. we have been dating 9 years. i love him alot. but i cant get him to understand how serious my health problems are. im not going to die if i eat an occasional slice of pizza or share a dessert. but i cant do it all the time. we have been trying to get pregnant for a year now as well. i keep having to tell him that i need to get my problems under control if we plan to have a healthy child.

i have to always educate people on the disease as well. i dont like to talk about it and make it center of attention. but its hard when im eating out and they switch my diet soda for a regular. or when i want to grab something quick and all these places seem to have is fried this and plain nothing exciting salads. i will go to friends houses and they will make excellent meals. but its hard to explain that sometimes i cant eat alot of what they make and it seems like they get offended. the other day a friend made the most excellent mexican food. tortillas, rice, beans, the works. i didnt turn the meal down. but ate very little of it. when she asked me why i wasnt eating, i had to explain the carbs and diabetes and there it was again. the long explanation of the do and donts of diabetes. many people just don’t understand that it isnt all about sugar. its the carbs as well.

ugh.. it can get frustrating. can anyone relate to me here without being mean and putting me down?
i couldnt agree more with what you both said and thank you.

Okay, my mother went to the doctor a week ago for some blood work and her results said that she was a diabetic. On the paper it said that her blood glucose was 121 and the normal was 105. But I’m just wondering if that necessarily makes her a diabetic. We had an early lunch so before she went and got her blood checked we had just ate (dessert included). I mean, couldn’t her results be high because of that? Or, maybe she’s just hyperglycemic. By the way, what the difference?? Also, they didn’t tell which type she had. They just gave her a device to check her blood sugar with.
We went to the doctor as soon as we got finished eating lunch. My mother told her doctor that we had ate and asked her was it okay or should she reschedule for another day, but her physician said that it was okay. By the way, diabetes does run in our family.