Being diagnosed diabetic did not change your nutritional requirements. It just makes it harder to meet them. Always judge any proposed diet this way first. Diabetes treatment is the rest of your life, so your diet has to be good enough to go the distance.

The first thing is to look where you can easily eliminate carbohydrates, especially sugar. Things like going to only diet sodas…

An important part of diabetes treatment is exercise. Everyone says diet and exercise, but they are not separate. Your diet has to support your exercise. While exercise can use up BG (blood glucose), that’s not it’s most important use for Type 2 diabetics. Type 2 is what you probably have unless you were immediately put on insulin and the onset was sudden. Exercise for Type 2’s readjusts your metabolism and also lowers insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is really what’s wrong with you. That glucose in your blood is having trouble getting thru the cell walls. So, don’t forget exercise. And, exercise makes the necessary diet less severe.

The way my nutritionist went was to calculate a total calories for me and then alot those calories according to the norms of a healthy diet. Looking at my recommended diet and doing some calculator math, it looks like this was a diet who’s energy is distributed 52% Carbohydrate, 26% Fat, and 22% Protein. This sort of proportion is variable, but don’t stray too far.

There is no diabetes diet that fits all. Once you have decided on a description of your ideal diet, then you alot it across the day. More, smaller meals usually are better. Then the fun begins. You start eating according to this diet, and monitor your BG all thru the day and night. Spread the testing out, say 4-5 times a day at first. Watch how various foods and meals change BG. Make adjustments and continue to fine tune it until you get the best result consistant with good nutrition and what you can stand. That will be the diet that works for you.

Note that BG has a normal daily cycle. Learn what yours is, and work on that base, it’s a lot easier.

Note that diabetes tends to be a moving target, so continual testing and adjustment are the norm.

I know I did not give you a set of meals or any other sort of diet. This is really a matter to get out of your doctor and a nutritionist. At least get a total calorie recommendation, everything is based on that. It helps to get some sort of method of analizing your diet. Either computerized or a set of books of nutritional values. That way you can analize what you are given. Even the nutritionists, and more likely, the doctors can and will give you diets that are not balanced. So, look at what is given to you carefully. Helps to keep a diary of what you eat at first as well.

And, with time, you will find methods to eat almost any food. If you learn and plan.