food question

[parrdale]

Hi all I am new to this our food intake is generally ready meals as my wife has to eat soft meals for her MS. So if she doesn't finish it i will and then I don't tend to eat anything else. I then tend to graze i.e. crisps fruit cereals drink mostly semi skimmed milk have switched to Lactofree in the last 3 months and have been eating wholemeal bread. been told to lose around 4-5 stone I am about 21stone at the moment and around 6ft5, but district nurses, diet lady said I don't eat enough. confused.

 

[trophywench]

It's because you are eating the wrong mixture of things, with by no means sufficient quantities of the really helpful foods and far too much of the unhelpful ones ! LOL

Basically, all diabetics whatever type have a problem with their bodies processing carbohydrates - so the carbohydrates are the first things to cut down on.

That's anything containing flour, spuds, rice and pasta - and the sweeter fruits - eg mangos and papaya and bananas, peaches, apricots, pears - whereas berry fruits - raspberries, strawberries, blueberries - are a far far better choice. And then you always need protein - fish, meat, cheese, eggs and some fat, and of course vegetables. Anything green is 100% fine, that includes anything you can stick in a salad as well as what you have to cook - and carrots aren't really bad, whereas parsnips are.

But the key is size of portions. Protein should be around the size of a pack of playing cards and fruit & veg - at least 5 portions a day split between meals - about the size of what you can scoop up in your hands.

 

[parrdale]

thanks for the info.