You are either a newly diagnosed diabetic looking for information about diabetic snacks or someone who has had diabetes for a while and just can’t seem to get your blood sugar under control and are looking for ways to deal with it. Maybe you’re asking yourself, “what are diabetic snacks”? Although this may sound like something right out of a text book, and it really is, what I’m going to tell you is my own personal experience. I mean, I didn’t make this stuff up. I was given a lot of advice from my doctor and other diabetics I know. I’m just a regular person who has diabetes and offering help to those that need it. I’m here to tell you how I handled the issue of diabetic snacks when I first became a diabetic.
Before I go on, a few quick words about me, just so you know what my position was and how it may compare to your own. I got diabetes when I was 59 and I was a life long lover of cakes and donuts. And I’m not kidding when I say “lover”. As far as I was concerned, if that was ALL I ate I was happy. So all of a sudden I’m being told how to eat and that my new eating habits would include some kind of diabetic snack. Listen, I had no idea what snacks for diabetics were. I wondered if they made cakes and donuts for diabetics. The bad news was, even if there were, that isn’t the kind of diabetic snack they had in mind for me. Oh well, one can always hope. So let’s cut to the chase.
The first thing you have to consider when trying to map out a plan for diabetic snacks, is to make a list of things you like. Hopefully this list will be long enough for you to be able to pick out some diabetic snack foods that you can deal with. If you are a person who has had good eating habits prior to becoming a diabetic you are much better off than someone like me. Let me tell you how this worked out for me. The following foods are the staples of my foods for diabetic snacking. Crackers, cheese, fresh fruits, peanutbutter crackers, chicken or turkey, sugar free jello and sugar free pudding. To this list I later found and added sugar free cupcakes! YES! Hog heaven, baby! I’m not sure who it was, but somebody famous once said, “let them eat cake”. They must have had me in mind! Ok, so now you have a list of your snacks for diabetics. The next question is, when do I eat these diabetic snacks, whenever I feel like it? Ahhh, not exactly.
Here’s the way I went about making sure I ate my diabetic snacks during the course of my day. First, I ate my breakfast around 7:30AM. I ate the first of my snacks for diabetics around 10AM. I would generally have lunch at about noon to 12:30PM. At somewhere between 2PM and 3PM I would be home. It was at that time that I would eat another diabetic snack. Dinner would follow at sometime between 6PM and 7PM. Then, maybe around 9PM, I would have the last of my snacks for diabetics. All I did with these diabetic snacks was mix them up so I had something a little different at each snack. Pretty simple, isn’t it? I’ll tell you this, it was very effective. I lost 50 pounds in a couple of short months and got my blood sugar, which when first diagnosed was over 500, down to between 100 and 105.
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