Some diabetics confess having a strong urge for sweets, an urge only made worse by total denial. Nutritionists offer this solution: If you know its going to lead to bingeing, don’t try to deprive yourself of sweets totally. Instead, incorporate controlled portions of sweets into your diet on a daily basis. Other diabetics, though, know they do better if they cut out all sweets except fruits. Why? Because they cant eat just one. It’s actually easier for them to go cold turkey than to fight temptation.
Four o’clock in the afternoon seems to be the bewitching hour for many would-be diabetic dieters. Their resistance to overeating drops to its lowest just about the time their insulin level is peaking. Insulin is a well known appetite stimulant; high insulin levels are thought to be one reason so many Type II diabetics struggle with weight loss.) The afternoon peak usually happens with naturally produced insulin pending on when and what you have eaten so far during the day. And it happens like clockwork in people who take a morning injection of long-acting and no other insulin during the day. Instead of trying to stick it out and failing, plan a snack for this or any other particularly tempting time. Take the calories from somewhere else in your day.