Choosing a Low-Calorie Diabetic Diet

If you are managing diabetes, then choosing a low-calorie diabetic diet is a smart choice to make.

Whether you have diabetes, are at risk for diabetes, or just think that a diabetic diet would be healthy to follow, this is one that will provide you with a lot of nutrition without a lot of fat and calories.

Since you are on the Overcome-Obesity-Today website, you are likely trying to lose weight as well as manage diabetes.

A low-calorie diabetic diet is going to help you do both.

Fortunately, the same foods that will help you manage your diabetes, eaten in healthy portions, can also help you lose weight.

This type of diet is going to focus a great deal on adding vegetables into your diet.

This is because vegetables are high in nutrients and low in calories.

If you are following a low-calorie diabetic diet you need to be sure that the calories you are consuming are not empty calories.

In other words, the calories you consume need to be providing you with the necessary nutrients you need to have energy and be healthy.

Examples of some of the vegetables you should eat on a low-calorie diabetic diet include such as:

• lettuce (different varieties vary, but a cup is less than 20 calories)
• broccoli (30 calories a cup)
• carrots (52 calories a cup)
• celery (17 calories a cup)
• tomatoes (32 calories a cup) and
• green beans (41 calories a cup).

As you can see, you can pack in a lot of vegetables for very few calories.

Not only will they help you feel full and satisfied, but most vegetables provide you with high amounts of vitamins, particularly vitamin A and vitamin C.

Other food categories on the low-calorie diabetic diet are also included, of course.

Fruits provide nutrients, as do meat and meat substitutes.

Keep in mind, though, that you need to make healthy choices in these categories as well.

When selecting breads and grains choose whole grains and avoid processed grains.

Select lean cuts of meat and eat fish several times a week.

Fruit also has a lot of nutrients, but watch your blood glucose levels because they often have a high amount of natural sugar.

Portion control is important when following a low-calorie diabetic diet.

It may say that the serving of pasta you are about to eat has 160 calories, but are you sure that your serving is actually only one serving?

Americans are famous for continually expanding serving sizes.

Learn what different serving sizes look like, and even down the road when you’re sure you know what a serving looks like re-measure it to be extra sure.

Portions have a way of growing!

Counting calories on a low-calorie diabetic diet may seem inconvenient, but after a short time you will know in your head what foods you can eat and remain within your calorie goals for the day.

Once you start losing weight, and your diabetes becomes easier to manage, you will feel even more motivated to stick with it!

You will also need to follow a proven step by step plan to start losing weight while you manage your diabetes.

You can even use these steps.

• Incorporate a proven, complete nutritional program into your daily life.
• Enhance your nutritional program with a complete mutivitamin supplement because no nutritional program is perfect.
• Use a behavior modification and motivational program that will help you stay on track with your nutritional plan.
• Exercise at home with your own:
  Treadmill

  Stairstepper

  Exercise bike

  Elliptical trainer

  Hand weights or

  An aerobic video.

• See what kinds of weight loss aids your health insurance covers such as:
  Hypnotism

  Gym membership discounts

  Nutritional counseling.

Once you have your diabetes under control and you are losing weight you will not only feel better; but, you will look better as well.

So, go ahead. Follow the steps above to begin your journey to an exciting new you starting today!