What is a diabetic to eat? Why can't he feed himself?

Do you have to fix the meals for a diabetic? Well I do too! Some days it seems o.k. but some days I do not want to face cooking one more meal for him. Him is my husband, Bud, you know! Click Here!

No matter what I fix, he wants something else. He is always looking for some pie, cake or dessert of some kind! If I fix a salad, fish, and broccoli, he wants a salad, baked potato, corn on the cob and a piece of coconut pie! Click Here!

I explain to him over and over the eating rules, but he does not care! He wants what he wants and he wants it now! So in frustration, I tell him to fix his own and I end up letting him do what he wants. I cannot control him. He is an adult and I cannot make the choices for him. It does not work when I try! He will not eat it anyway. Click Here!

I just want him to eat the way the nutritionist advised him to eat, but he will not! All I can do is cook the healthy food, set it on the table and hope he eats it.

Here lately I am trying to prepare food from the low-glycemic index. The glycemic index ranks foods, mainly carbohydrates, by how quickly they raise levels of blood sugar and insulin in the body. There are 3 categories, low, moderate and high glycemic foods. Proponents of this plan claim eating foods mostly from the low group helps people maintain a healthy weight and prevent developing heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers. Click Here!

What this means is carbohydrates are divided into two categories: white foods like white bread that affects blood sugar dramatically and foods rich in wheat and oats which do not affect blood sugar so rapidly. I buy wheat and whole oats products and basically that is what we eat. Click Here!

This low glycemic diet plan can be helpful in preventing type 2 diabetes. Of course I am very interested in doing that since both my husband and my mother are affected by diabetes. It has been shown that replacing foods in the high foods with ones in the low foods will help people who have diabetes better manage their blood sugar levels! Click Here!

If you can substitute foods in the high group with ones in the low group, your husband will probably never know you did that. They taste great and they are so much healthier for you! In the long run it will help you better manage your blood sugar levels.

My goal is to try and make the foods taste good without having all those carbohydrates and calories. I am trying to keep my husband healthy and free from the complications of diabetes. Sometimes I wonder why I bother! Click Here!

But, I have lived with him some 25 years and I would be lost without him. So I keep on trying.

See you at the dinner table!

Am I My Husband's Keeper? Does a Diabetic Need a Keeper?

My husband is a diabetic, but you know that because I have told you that before. Bud was diagnosed with diabetes 23 years ago. There have been good days and there have been bad days. Click Here!

Probably the worst days we have ever had were when he was first diagnosed with the disease. It is like everyone, the medical staff, the doctors, the dietician, and my husband all expected me to be Bud's caretaker.

It is true I do prepare most of his meals when I am home. However, when he was first diagnosed I worked out of town 5 days per week. He had to fix his own meals, check his blood sugar and keep records of his blood sugar levels on his own. It was up to him to do what he had to do to maintain blood sugar levels. Click Here!

He was perfectly capable of doing all of this by himself. As the years went by and bud grew older, it has become increasingly harder for him to keep tabs all by himself. It has become a family affair. That, however, does not give me the right to boss him around.

I wanted to! I wanted to tell him what to eat and when to eat. I thought being the caretaker gave me the right to bawl him out when he ate something he should not have eaten. I found myself screaming at him for doing things he should not have done! He knew better!

Bud would eat a whole apple pie n 2 days. Every time he went to the store, he would go straight to the desserts. He was constantly looking for something sweet to take home and eat! It was like he was addicted to sweets. Nothing I said made any difference.

Our home became a battle zone! It was an all out war. He wanted sweets and I got mad ever time he ate them. Click Here!

When we went to see his doctor or his dietician, and they quizzed him about his blood sugar levels, and why they were high, or why they were out of control, or how much insulin he took, they would look at me for an answer as to why he could not follow their directions. They acted like they expected me to make Bud do what he should do to take care of himself. Click Here!

Finally, I informed them that I could cook the healthy meals for him to eat, but I could not make him eat them!

For example, every time Bud had to go to the doctor or the dentist early in the morning, he would take his insulin before he went, even if he could not eat before seeing them. By the time we got through at the doctor or the dentist office, he would have an insulin reaction from not having eaten.

Have you ever seen a diabetic have an insulin reaction? They start sweating profusely. They get very weak, and they can pass out. It would make Bud sick every time. Well, I got wise and I told Bud if you do not eat, you do not take our insulin shot! He would still do it. He said that he could not remember to take his shot unless he did it at the same time everyday! So I started carrying peanut butter and crackers with me. If I saw the sweat break out on his forehead, I made him eat the peanut butter and crackers and it would stop the reaction.
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Even though they are adults, they hate being forced to abide by rules they have no control over. They hate being told what they can and cannot eat. They love certain foods and they do not want to give them up.

Bud loves to quote the old saying "man cannot live by bread alone."
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I always counter with "Man can live without any bread."

Find a happy medium. The important fact here is do what has to be done to live as normal a life as possible even though you have diabetes.