Being consistent and still have a lot of variety in your diabetic diet sounds like a difficult thing to do. But you can do it and you should, because it’s one of the best ways to manage your diabetes through your diet. Being consistent should be achieved through setting specific meal times and having the same servings from the different food groups. By trying different foods in each food group you can have a lot of variety in your diabetic menu.
Finding a couple of meals that will work great with your blood sugars isn’t that hard to do. When they are easy to prepare you will find yourself being stuck with them for a long time, but after while you will find that you get bored with them. The other downside is that you probably aren’t getting all the nutrients you need from your diabetic diet. Menus with a lot of variety do give more chance of giving you everything you need to keep you as healthy as possible.
Every diet, if it’s the carbohydrate counting diet or the exchange diet, gives you room for flexibility. This flexibility lies in the combination of different foods or trying new foods you never had before. When you see your dietician you can get additional ideas for recipes and foods so you have more variety in your diabetic diet.
Sometimes it’s possible that you try a new food and that you have a higher blood sugar as a result. If you find yourself in this kind of situation think about everything else you might have done differently that day – taking your insulin on a later moment or being less active are possibilities. If the only change that day the new food you should talk to your dietician about it. Maybe you can prepare it in another way or eat it with other foods or avoid it altogether.
It’s not because you have diabetes that you can’t try something new once in a while. Just remember to plan it in your diabetic diet. Menus can be consistent and have lots of variety if you plan well.
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