I'm Type 2, and it is rough. My best advice is to start doing a little exercise. Start by walking a little ways down the block and back to your house. And of course, talk to your doctor.

I'm handicapped and exercise is a no-go

Try talking to your doctor about some options.

Find out what raises your blood sugars and stay away from that. Once you know the foods to stay away from helps make it easier to find foods and recipes you can work with for you. Not every diabetic is the same. But to start with, Fish, salads, chicken and small potato or pasta portions are usually ok. Water is your best friend. Juices are ok if you water them down. I drink icetea. But only one or two spoons of powder in a glass.

I'm type 1, though I'm not the best example because I have cut back on a lot of things, but I still have not the best diet. Cutting out things like bread and pasta is a good start, but dont try to do it all in one go or you'll drive yourself crazy.

Honestly any food is good just watch the sugars and carbohydrates no more then 15g of sugar per serving is a good base to go off of. Try to keep carbohydrates low and sodium to a reasonable level natural sugars from fruit and most vegetables except potatoes are fine. Staying away from bread products is good some pasta and most rice are fine. For calories depending on your current weight, age, and level of pre-diabetes you are at look up online for the average intake is. From a medical sight exercise is useful but for your back and mobility problems routine stretching and light muscle lifting like 10-15 lbs for half hour will help your situation or get a weighted medicine ball for leg lifts and rotatinary stretching will help burn off excess sugars

Fructose she has to calculate just as other carbohydrates in most diabetes forms.
Its effective burn ratio is 12g fructose to 10g carbohydrates instead the 10:10 for saccharose or glucose.
But fructose requires a lot more water for processing, so, long term, fructose is like glucose syrup a thing suboptimal for the kidneys and starting to add a lot faster to her weight than normal plain sugars.

Personally I am lucky in that I don't like the taste of fructose.

I haven't been fully diagnosed but my fiancee's mother said my previous symptoms were aligned with pre-diabetes. I found that the best help for me was doing Keto, as carbs really does spike insulin (and without insulin you end up hyperglycimic).

What me and my fiancee do is for about a week we ate nothing but eggs, bacon, and salad with dressing. For three meals... ugh... but after the first week we could transition into intermittent fasting, this ment less food to spike insulin response so less blood sugar spikes total, but eating keto also ment we would be eating low glycemic foods anyways. In about two weeks the symptoms I felt faded a lot, and I can get back to normal life. Though I admit the diet is not for everyone, it can be rough, but it's a suggestion

Just remember that switching to protein heavy diets pus a stress on the kidneys, and a fat rich diet... *pokes belly* is also coming with its own issues.

While the former is true, the latter not so much. Ketosis actually uses up the fat quickly because it should be clean burning fats (avacado, walnut, olive oil, cheese to an extent), and it goes right to the fat stores. I was 322 lbs when I started in January, I'm now 225

Consider the amounts of water both needed for processing fat as well as the amount of water needed to get rid of Acetone from the blood.
You're basically converting body fat to acetone during ketosis. That is a high load on your organs, from lungs over eyes to kidneys and liver.
I do not know what Kaprika has for a medical background, but I prefer to err on the side of caution.

Make sure that your doc or dietician knows youre doing ketosis.

Welcoem to the club.
I run since 1997 on Novo Nrdisk Actrapid to cover meals, and originally on Protaphane, but now on Abaglasar basal Insuline.

It sucks, but its not about being dead or alien, but about falling quickly apart or staying operational for a long time to come.
What will help managing your diabetes is to create a spreadsheet template which you can draw out every month and which you can use on your smartphone to register your bloodsugar levels and the amounts of insuline you inject, and, if possible, the amounts of carbohydrates you took in.
A bit of discipline will help a long stretch in regards to eating at regular intervals , and learning how much carbohydrates a meal provides.

I run on it sine 22 years, more than half my life, and am still here, so I think I ca nsay I do expect the same of you at the very least.

=)

As for drinks:
Sugared soda is a no go. Its simply not worth letting your bloodsugar skyrocket for something with onyl lil flavour.
Your available choices are better than you might think:

Water. Normal, carbonated ,heated.

Tea - and boy are there many sorts of teas! I can make you a list of my favourites if you want. Also, you can make tea extra strong nad then add some carbonated water when it cooled down a bit. Is quite nice.

Diet fizz , diet soda. It's not really optimal, but at least you can buy that stuff everywhere without people oogling you liek when you ask if they have Woodruff flavoured tea....

Fruit juices, 1:4 or 1:3 stretched with carbonated water, or with hot water as a ultrafruity tea. You have to calculate that into your carbohydrate intake, but unsugared fruitjuices ( 100 % pure fruit juice ) give you good flavour, real fruit and vitamins... An acceptable tradeoff.

Coffee, black. When you can stomach it, it has low carbohydrates, lots of bang and lets everything short of energy drinks look like sleeping pills.

Juice concentrates - In Denmark we regularly buy fruit juice that was de-sugared and got resweetened with artificial sweeteners... and that stuff is a 1:10 concentrate, so a small bottle of it lasts a long way.


Practical recommendations I found was hibiscus tea, doubly strong, stretched with half carbonated water and then two spoons full of orange juice or one teaspoon cherry juice concentrate.
You can pour 4 liter of that stuff, a whole days liquid supply, and only need to calculate 30g of carbohydrates throughout the day for that. That was my calculation for my mix at least.

My other favourite was basically orange tea, hot, with 10% orange fruitjuice during winter, 1l a day. The tea has no carbohydrates, and the orange juice, making only 10%, of the whole, is producing only low amounts of carbohydrates to consider.



As for foodstuffs:
When you have to use insuline, you ca neat pretty normally. Just, in the beginning, youll have to take a scale along and calculate the carbohydrates of your foodstuffs.
When you have to work with a specific amount of carbohydrates you can stll consume,then, well... Stuff serving as good fillers are usually salads. Their carbohydrates are miniscle,their vitamins and temporary volume fillign the belly is excellent.
More... filling stuff wold be potatoes, because they provide a lot of water and volume for their carbohydrates. Avoid replacing carbohydrates with fat, else you risk to soon have to apply for membership in a blue whale family. Fat hasw no carbohydrates, but it carries so much energy that youd have to become a high performance sportsman to burn all the calories you suddenly take in.

For the foodstuffs, when you are not yet using insulin, I best recomment others to provide their insights.

Heads up! We live in great times!
There is research underway on many fronts to tackle diabetees better.

I have a thing to add to the list of drinks, mio is an amazing substitute for juices as they have little to no sugar, and I know rockstar pure zero uses erythritol which isn't considered a sugar (at least on my diet)

It is an alcohol, so it doesn't use the mechanisms for sugar processing and is thus irrelevant for insulin based processing / diabetees.
As an alcohol it draws on water heavily, so, in larger quantities things can get a bit runny when one is sensitive to this kind of thing.
And it provides net zero energy as it is not actively processed for energy.

Mio sounds like a energy drink in its ads. With coffein and all that.
But there are sorts without such ingedients. Those should be great as it should be cheaper in the USA than to buy FUN light from Sweden:

https://www.swedishfoodshop.com/cat.....mp;q=fun+light

I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes a few months ago.

Cutting out sugary things from my diet and reducing my carb intake has helped a TON. My morning blood sugar levels are typically 100-120, and I've lost 30 pounds too.


I'm not on food stamps though, so I can't help you there. Sorry. :c

I was pre-diabetic during the summer (not anymore) and that's when I found out about the ketogenic diet. I have a few recipes I've made before that really helped me lose a few pounds.

Hopefully they'll be within your budget.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/787355947339085123/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/787355947338380229/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/787355947338063591/

My dad is and I'm sure i am. I display all the signs of the low blood sugar type. I can give you some tips on what to buy and what not to buy if you like. I might even have some tasty recipes i can give you.

Lemon in your water during light times, when its day time, never do it before bed, and always have it with food. Then any drinks with cherries boost your sleeping, because melotonin booster...

Oh and look at eating more Keto stuff, you don't need to go to that diet strictly but you can slowly add it in