Dinner With Diabetes
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Diet plays an integral role in managing your diabetes, especially because the food you eat directly influences the amount of glucose in your blood stream. Your dietary habits also have a firm say in the longer run, as your body tends to remember irregular food habits and uncontrolled eating sprees transforming them into layers of unwanted fat over the years, which translates just as easily into instant diabetic doom. And hence, nutritionists all over the world emphasize on the importance of counting your calories, and moderating what you put on that plate so that it is you who are in control of your diabetes, and not the other way round. With such stringent restrictions and meticulously planned meals, the prospect of eating out for a change is very likely to make even the most ambivalent of diabetics shudder. A huge part of this fear stems from the fact that at a restaurant, it is not you who decide everything that goes into each dish that you consume, and also the paranoia that you might eat more than what is recommended for you, consciously or otherwise. Many diabetics also shy away from eating out at social occasions, afraid that social pressures may force them to indulge. However, all is not as bleary as it sounds in the diabetic world as the conventional, rigid outlook towards diet control is fast changing to a more flexible approach of using exchange lists. These lists allow you to substitute foods, based on the options you have at hand, so that you consume the requisite amount of each category as opposed to only what is listed on the your diabetic menu. And hence, eating out becomes a meal option like any other, where a few reasonable choices could put all your bingeing fears at bay. One of the basic rules of the thumb to remember when eating out is ‘When in doubtask’. And so, if you are unsure of what the chef’s planning to include in your meal or how large the portion size is, ask your server. It also helps to let your server know that you are looking for a diabetes-friendly meal as most eateries now include low-calorie, reduced sodium and high fiber alternatives for a majority of their dishes. Many chefs will also try to customize your food to low cholesterol and low fat versions, if you tell them just what you’re looking for. A majority of diabetics fumble when posed with the issue of portion size, neglecting the fact that most restaurant portions are a lot larger than what is recommended for them. If you find your meal looking a lot larger than what you are accustomed to, don’t force yourself to wolf down more food than you usually do. Share the remainder with your dining companions or carry it back home, to make for an appetizing snack the next day. Try to make your meal as nutritious as possible by choosing your food sensibly. For instance, you could replace your white bread rolls with whole wheat ones, a red meat entre with grilled chicken, and even a low-calorie vinaigrette instead of a mayonnaise or cream-based salad dressing. Eating out may also call for slight modifications to your regular dietary routine, often leading you to eat well past your regular meal time. When faced with such a situation, try to swap your after-dinner snack with your actual dinner, eating the snack at your meal time and your dinner later in the evening. This will keep you from going hungry for extended periods and developing very low blood glucose levels. Consult your physician to check for any alterations to your diabetes medication, to keep away from undulating blood glucose. Making reservations also cuts short the amount of time you have to spend waiting for your meal, thereby making it a lot easier to stick to schedule. At the end of it all, don’t be tempted to throw all caution to the winds and indulge in a sugar and calorie-rich dessert - which will effectively undo all the planning and scheduling you have invested in your meal. Ask for a more nutritious fresh fruit salad or compote instead, to further boost the nutritional value of your meal and keep the calories right where you want them. Once viewed as a forbidden pleasure for victims of diabetes, eating out can be effortlessly incorporated in your diabetic regime if you make sure to stick to these simple ground rules. And if you do happen to go overboard, try to even out the damage done over the rest of your meals, adjusting the calories accordingly. Be flexible and adaptable with your outlook towards diabetes; being too harsh and severe with yourself will only discourage you and lead you to become disillusioned with your condition - letting this disease take over your physical and mental wellbeing. February 26 2008 10:49 am | Diabetes 
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