Monitoring your blood sugar is essential to determining the effects various foods have on your blood sugar. While it's good to have a schedule for taking your blood sugar upon rising or before breakfast, perhaps before lunch and before bedtime; testing your blood sugar levels two hours after a meal may surprise you. Your readings may reveal that foods you thought had very little effect cause your blood sugar to rise rapidly.
Restricting carbohydrate intake is a key element in diabetes management and for some pre-diabetics and even persons who have been actually diagnosed with diabetes, it can be reversed by eliminating certain types of carbohydrates. Three basic rules are recommended:
1) Eliminate all foods that contain simple sugars or fast-acting carbohydrates. These would include breads and other starchy foods, like potatoes and grains, which become glucose very quickly and cause blood sugar levels to spike.
2) Limit your overall carbohydrate intake even with foods that contain complex carbohydrates. Doing so eliminates or reduces the work that the cells in your pancreas has to do.
3) Avoid eating until you are stuffed. Stop eating when you no longer feel hungry.
Think you are safe with "sugar free foods?" We'll discuss that in the next post.
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