If you could be cured of diabetes for 24 hours, what would you eat?

Question

I would start with stuffed french toast and orange juice at IHOP for breakfast. For a morning snack I would have an Icee and nachos from seven-eleven. For lunch I would go to Red Lobster and eat a double portion of the coconut shrimp with pina colada sauce followed by their vanilla bean cheesecake. For dinner on to a great Chinese restaurant and eat sweet and sour chicken and pork and noodles and lots of fried rice. Finally I would top the day off with a piece of my brothers homemade chocolate silk pie. All of these are foods I haven't touched since I was diagnosed five years ago. How about you?

I don't touch those foods anymore because I used to eat them all the time and I also weighed 70 lbs more than I do now. Also, I can never handle rice especially fried, it just makes my blood sugar climb way too much.

Answer 1

Milkshakes, slurpees, and a whole lot of alcoholic drinks that I have never really tried. You know, the ones with coconut, and pineapple and such things. I'd probably want to go to a really good buffet, and just try everything.
Ahhhh....if only.

Answer 2

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Answer 4

Diabetes mellitus is a disorder in which blood sugar (glucose) levels are abnormally high because the body does not produce enough insulin. , a hormone released from the pancreas, controls the amount of sugar in the blood. When a person eats or drinks, food is broken down into materials, including sugar, that the body needs to function. Sugar is absorbed into the bloodstream and stimulates the pancreas to produce insulin. It allows sugar to move from the blood into the cells. Once inside the cells, sugar is converted to energy, which is either used immediately or stored until it is needed. The levels of sugar in the blood vary normally throughout the day. They rise after a meal and return to normal within about 2 hours after eating. Once the levels of sugar in the blood return to normal, insulin production decreases. The variation in blood sugar levels is usually within a narrow range, about 70 to 110 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) of blood. If a person has eaten a large amount of carbohydrates, the levels may increase more. People older than 65 years tend to have slightly higher levels, especially after eating. If the body does not produce enough insulin to move the sugar into the cells, the resulting high levels of sugar in the blood and the inadequate amount of sugar in the cells together produce the symptoms and complications of diabetes. Doctors often use the full name diabetes mellitus, rather than diabetes alone, to distinguish this disorder from diabetes insipidus, a relatively rare disease that does not affect blood sugar levels. Just adapting light exercise, less junk food and stress free life may help you overcome it. I would recommend you for this "Nip the Evil in the Bud" and in this case Diabetes is an Evil.

Answer 5

Be sure not to deprive yourself ever of some of the good things in life!!

I plan in "cheats"!! Over the weekend I had one Tom Thumb donut rolled in cinnamon sugar, 1/4 of a Funnel Cake with powder sugar, and 6 french fries!! I did have to give over on some other things like a slice of toast with my eggs for breakfast and the croutons on my dinner salad!!

Thing is, if we deprive ourselves, we get the craving for a thing like that. Planning makes it possible to have birthday cake and ice cream!!

I know I can never eat more than a spoonful of rice, but that spoonful is great!!

Answer 6

Chocolate!!!!! Lots and Lots of CHOCOLATE!!!!! I don't care if its chocolate cake, ice cream, milk or candy bars. I miss my CHOCOLATE!!!!!! I have a problem with Low-Sugar and when I was told that (after passing out driving, THANK GOD my Hubby was there to grab the wheel) we thought I just needed to carry around Butterfingers, my fav. Boy were we wrong. I found out the hard way that eating processed and not "natural" sugar my sugar spikes for 15-20 min and then drops even lower. It was only a quick and quite temp fix.

Answer 7

There is no reason why you cant eat those foods in moderation. My son has type 1 diabetes and his food intake is not totally restricted. We do Carboydrate counting and if he has 100gms of Carbs he has 10 units of insulin {novorapid}. This doesnt mean that he can "pig out" whenever he wants, just like anyone he watches his diet.

Answer 8

Me?? I've learned my lesson.

I would continue to eat the same things I'm eating now. My health hasn't been this good in twenty years. Despite what folks seem to believe about diabetes, I heal quickly, my blood sugar is easy to manage, my weight is down, and I feel great.

Now why would I want to goof all that up?

Answer 9

Pizza, regular soda, and then ice cream! But as a diabetic, I have to settle for scraping the pizza toppings off, diet soda, and 1/2 cup sugar free ice cream instead.

Answer 10

Why haven't you touched those foods? So long as you don't overdo it you can have any one of those foods in moderation. You are being way way to strict about your diet and need to moderate a bit on it. Watching your carbs is just as important as watching out for excess sugar. In the nursing home I work at we have what is called No Concentrated Sweet diets for our diabetics. They get a half portion of regular desserts at all meals but get the same of other foods except we use sugar free jelly and syrup etc for them.