More of my daily diabetic diet planning ideas forr you to lower blood sugar levels

Today was another good day with my new diabetic diet meal planning menu and I lost another 1/2 lb when I weighed in this afternoon! I really am so excited to finally have a meal planning come together for me!

Here's what I had today incase you want to follow my diabetes meal plan yourself:

Friday June 13th,2009

Breakfast

7:30 am

1 cup corn flakes cereal
8 oz 2% milk

9:30 am

1&1/4 cups watermelon (finally back in season)

11:30 am lunch

2oz turkey
1/2 cup green beans
1 whole wheat bun

1pm

applesauce 1/2 cup

3:30 pm dinner


2 slices bologna
6 saltine crackers
10 potato chips munchos
diet pepsi

6pm snack

1 & 1/4 cup canteloupe


8:30 pm snack

sorbees sugar free sucker strawberry

11pm bedtime snack


2 rice krispy treats
1 tbsp sugar free cool whip (new but different)

All in all today was very good for me! The only time I had trouble keeping my brain functioning was after the cereal. For some reason Cheerios keeps my brain cells working while plain old corn flakes does not! So I had about an hour this morning of dumbfoundness but I was ok after I had the midmorning snack. Which leads me to believe that I just may as well mix in the whole box of corn flakes with the cheerios already in my huge tin can I am always referring to. I think a mixture of them will taste ok and there will be enough cheerios in there to keep my brain working until the morning snack at least that way.

Let me know if you try this meal day and if it gives you a good result or not. My blood level glucose number has remained low all week during this experimental testing so that's a positive sign. I even had about 3 of the super mini tootsie rolls during the day today and I've still managed to lose another 1/2 lb. so yippee it's working! It's nice to have full brain power back for most of the day now again!

Also don't forget to do your daily walking! I sometimes may forget to mention it but I am getting off the computer regularly and walking even if it is only for about 10 minutes at a time. I do that about 6 times per day at least so that is helping I feel like and it doesn't make me work up a sweat that way at all!



I usually have to get up to go to the bathroom anyway and you should have to do that too if you're still continuing to drink the water like we are supposed to! I really have found that I detest drinking so much water but since something in the plan is working or a combination of all the stuff is working so I am planning to keep doing it. I do drink a glass of sugar free lemonade with lunch and it helps break up the monotomy of water.

Wyler's has a good brand for that if you want to try it. We carry that brand here at our local Kroger grocery store and also Hostess bread store has it for just a $1 a box so that's a big savings since there's 3 tubs in the box and each makes 2 quarts of lemonade for you. Try it and see if you don't like it. So far I've only wound up drinking about 4 glasses of actual water per day and the other 2 liquids are my diet pepsi in the morning and the one I have with dinner. I know there not as healthy as drinking water but at least the doctor did say they count as water!

A daily diet of 1200 calories for the diabetic planning meal menus is hard to do

Yesterday we wrote down my entire's week worth of food to eat on my new diabetic diet meal plan . The meals consist of a total daily intake of 1200 calories which sounds like a low amount but I'm finding if I eat the proper allotted amounts of fruits I'm able to be not hungry.

I'm following my doctor's new plan and this is the 2nd of it and I've not been hungry yet at least! My son did help me reconstruct me plan so it would better suit my personal needs. I need more carbs in the morning than what the plan calls for so we decided to switch the breakfast meals with the lunch meals for this week and see how that works out for me.

That's a real plus in my favor since I wasn't getting any freaking breakfast meats for my morning meal and you all know how much I love all my favorite breakfast meats! Well now I'm able to work those in a bit a few days a week making me a much happier diet diabetic gal in the first place.

Here's what I've eaten so far today:
Breakfast:

2 toast (allowed only 1 if this was breakfast!)
2 turkey bacon (cook in the microwave crispy it's better)
4 oz 2% milk

My breakfasts thru the week are at 7:30. Then at 9:30 I have a fruits snack which today was a small banana. That carried me over carbwise until lunchtime where I had 1/2 a cinnamon raisin bagel. This is the first time I've ever eaten a bagel and I found that I love them! It's kind of chewy like a soft pretzel yet filling like a piece of toast is plus of course it has a bit of saltiness to it that I just love!

We bought several flavors last night hoping I would like them so that's a good thing! I bought sourdough ones and whole wheat ones too since they were out of plain ones at the store.
Then at 1:30 I had my official mid day fruits snack. This time I picked some canteloupe and fresh strawberries and I put a little cool whip on them. Sugar free cool whip is a free diabetic freindly food item and I can't keep enough of it in the house! The strawberries mixed in with the cool whip was delicious and since I'd put the canteloupe on the bottom of the bowl it was especially great since it'd soaked up some of the strawberry juices!

Dinner is going to be:

2oz burger grilled
bit on fresh onions
5 texas crisper french fries
whole wheat small bun

I think this new plan worked out good for today. I had only one 15 minute period when I was "loopy" as my kids call it, meaning no brain function at the moment.

Well now that dinner is overwith I must say it was very good! Incase you're wondering just how big a 2oz hamburger is I'll tell you it's not big enough! ha ha It's about the size of a White Castle's hamburger to put it in prospective for you which is very small and about as thin. It's the smallest size of meat I've ever tried to eat and be satisfied with, that's for sure. I still was a little bit hungry after dinner but I did wait it out for my 6pm snack of whcih I had an orange.

Now, here at bedtime tonight I'm having 3 grahman crackers 2&1/2" squares each. Funny how I use to count the entire long unbroken squares as 1 but not anymore. I'm tired of feeling bad from this diabetic neuropathy and diabetes and I'm really going to do all I can to lose this weight once and for all if it's the last thing I ever do!

I could of course have had a vegetable for dinner as I should have but since I'm limited by what I'll actually eat to green beans or sauerkraut, I just couldn't look at either one of them again so I just skipped the vegetable tonight. Have you ever eaten a vegetable every day until you got sick of it and didn't want to see it even on the plate anymore? That's the way I'm feeling about green beans tonight. This being diabetic really stinks doesn't it?