Trouble Controlling Your Diabetes? Try These Helpful Tips

Diabetes can have far-reaching effects, touching every aspect of your life and influencing not just your diet, but also your mood, your overall health, and your appearance. There are ways to manage it, however, and heres some useful advice for learning to live with diabetes instead of feeling like diabetes is defining your life.

If you want a snack thats fun to eat and tasty too, but your Diabetes means that you dont seem to have any options, reach for popcorn! You can leave the butter out if youre trying to lose weight, and keep the portion down so that you dont overdo your carbohydrates.

Drinking water is important for everyone, but is especially so for diabetics. There is a reason that most diabetics drink like a fish before they are diagnosed and begin treatment! Keep your water intake high to help you keep your weight down and your hydration up, especially if you exercise.

Green tea is an excellent tool for the Diabetic who is attempting to lose weight. Studies show it helps your heart to stay healthy, and its so tasty that you wont want to add any sweeteners to it. You can also use powdered matcha in cooking, and its great with cocoa!

Exercise

Going for a walk, jog, or run with your dog, is an excellent way to exercise and help keep your diabetes under control. It will also help your dog stay at a healthy weight, which can save you both heartache and money on vet bills. Youll motivate each other to keep going!

A Diabetic needs to have eight good hours of sleep every night to be well-rested, alert, and healthy. People who get enough sleep tend to be able to lose weight, probably because they have the energy to exercise and lack the apathy that can lead to less than healthy eating choices.

If you suffer from diabetes and you are going to exercise, it is important that you check your blood glucose afterward. Strenuous activity can cause your body to burn off blood glucose and if your body does not have enough glucose, you can develop hypoglycemia. If your glucose levels are too low, try eating foods that have carbs to raise your glucose levels.

Nutrition

Want a tasty treat that wont be forbidden by your doctor due to your Diabetes? Try nachos! Use a low fat cheese, low fat sour cream, homemade guacamole, and salsa, and youll be getting a ton of nutrition with a burst of flavor. If you add some beans to the salsa youll have an even healthier snack!

Learning to read the nutrition data on food labels is key to eating the right diet for your Diabetes. Keep track of how much carbohydrates, sodium, sugar, fat, protein, and fiber are in each food you eat and try to only choose those which will keep your weight in check.

Sodas, ketchup and many other processed sweet foods contain high fructose corn syrup, so read the labels on everything you are considering buying at the market, and pass on it if it contains this ingredient. "Glucose/fructose" is how this product is labeled in Canada.

Think about what you drink. Diabetics need to be careful of everything they ingest, so dont forget to monitor the nutrition data and ingredients on the items your drinking. Juice, for example, is very high in sugar, so you should drink it in moderation. Milk can be high in fat, so stick to skim.

With tips like the above, you can take control of your life and make sure diabetes isnt the sole determining factor in what you do, how you feel and the choices you make. While you should definitely keep it in mind, that doesnt mean it has to prey on your peace of mind. Even with diabetes, you can live a full, fun and happy life.