When you’re diagnosed with diabetes, you know it’s going to be a life-changing event. There are several strategies you can adopt to help getting into remission. One of them is to switch to a plant-based diet. There are many reasons why you’d want to become vegetarian: you don’t like meat,…
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Blood sugar control: eat your greens
When carbs will feature in a meal, we know that our blood sugar will spike badly shortly after. There are several ways to manage and minimise that spike. One is exercise. Another is to eat green vegetables. Green vegetables are nearly free from carbohydrates. So in themselves they won’t raise…
Blood sugar control: exercise
So you want to eat something you know is bad for you? For example a croissant for breakfast once in a while. Or a slice of chocolate cake. You know they’re going to make you spike badly. But sometimes it’s hard to resist (or you have no choice because you…
Track everything, all the time
One of the things I put in place from day one is to track everything.If you don’t know what’s happening, you can’t progress and you can’t keep yourself accountable. As a diabetic, one very important thing to track is your glycemia. You can’t know how your body behaves if you…