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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eat a whole food plant based diet with minimal processed foods. No oil, no nuts, low plant fats like coconut and avocado. [/quote]
I'm the first 11:37 and can't figure out why this diet had the opposite effect for me. [/quote]

A plant-based low food diet can be a disaster for blood sugar unless you keep your portions REALLY small. A meal based on beans and/or carbs is really really bad for your blood sugar. [/quote]

Not trying to sound flippant, but without plants and beans.. what can we eat???[/quote]

Omg, right? I'm a new poster. I'm Indian American and vegetarian -- diabetes runs in my family and i'm now prediabetic. I take Metaformin, and my A1C went down from 6.2 to 5.8, but still technically prediabetic. I want to get out of that zone. Beans and carbs or lentils and carbs is like the basis of our diet! Help! I didn't realize how bad a vegetarian diet was -- I'm going to have to give up my beloved cheerios! (I exclusively eat "healthy" cereals like cheerios and grapenuts. Now I;m seeing I need to probably eliminate them all together. I do eat eggs and yogurt, but blah, every day? 
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I am not a dietitian or nutritionist, but I'm going to recommend you look into a glycemic index diet. This is something that never totally caught on in the US, in part because I think it was viewed by the establishment nutrition field here as akin to Atkins or keto, but it's not. My spouse was finally correctly diagnosed with LADA diabetes overseas - after years of treatment for type 2 that he did not respond to. Anyway, he was recommended this approach to diet - and I say approach because it's not an eat only this plan. It's really simplistiv to say lentils and beans are "bad." They are not. But maybe you need to balance with more protein or look at how you are preparing them, etc.

It's also possible that if you are at a healthy weight, you exercise, and have a healthy diet that you just have diabetes. It's not entirely a lifestyle disease.[/quote]

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