Eating less and more meals is of great significance to stabilize blood sugar. In order to avoid the sudden increase of blood sugar caused by one-time overeating of sugar friends, and also to avoid the occurrence of hypoglycemia before the next meal,
Sugar friends are advised to eat less and eat more. Add meals on the basis of three meals a day to increase the number of meals a day to 4-6.
Four advantages
1, hyperglycemia control:
2, anti-hypoglycemia:
3. Reduce hunger:
4. Avoid hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia:
Many diabetic patients with high blood sugar fluctuation and prone to hypoglycemia need to eat 5~6 times a day, especially those with hypoglycemia after adding a small amount of insulin or hyperglycemia after slightly reducing insulin, so they should eat less and eat more meals.
Second, learn to add meals.
set time
Add meals 2 ~ 3 hours after meals. Generally speaking, the blood sugar level reaches its peak 2 hours after a meal, and then drops. During the descending period, meals should be added, which not only avoids hyperglycemia caused by meals, but also prevents hypoglycemia before meals, such as 10 am, 4 pm and 9 pm.
Adding meals at night is more important than during the day.
If sugar friends have high fasting blood sugar and low blood sugar at night, try adding meals before going to bed. On the one hand, it can avoid hypoglycemia at night, on the other hand, it can alleviate some people's hunger caused by the long interval between dinner and breakfast the next day, which is very beneficial to prevent hypoglycemia at night.
Patients should eat in time under the following circumstances:
(1) when there is obvious hunger between meals or before the next meal, or when the blood sugar level is too low, you should add meals in time;
② Low blood sugar before exercise (
(3) When you exercise too much, you should eat a little after exercise;
④ When hypoglycemia occurs, you should eat immediately, or drink sugar water, honey water and some biscuits.
Third, no food.
Meals must be added on the basis of a fixed daily total, and a part of dining space should be set aside from the main meal for meals. Every meal is only six or seven minutes full, which means "no extra meals"
For example, divide breakfast into four equal portions, eat three breakfast portions, and leave one portion for breakfast at 10 am.
Dietary calories
The calorie content of each meal is 50 ~ 100 calories. 50 calories are half corn, 3 jiaozi, 10 peanuts; 100 calories means 3 soda crackers, 500 grams of watermelon with skin, 1 small apple.
Extra food
Healthy snacks with low glycemic index, low fat and high dietary fiber can also choose fruits and nuts with low sugar content. There are mainly the following four categories:
Fruits and vegetables: tomatoes, cucumbers, apples, pears, grapefruit, oranges and strawberries can be selected, and the intake should be controlled at 100 ~ 200g each time.
Carbohydrate: coarse grain bread, miscellaneous bean products, etc. You can spend half a second to one second each time to supplement the reduced staple food in a meal, which is suitable for all diabetic patients, especially middle-aged and elderly sugar friends.
Protein: You can choose 1 egg, a bag of milk (about half a catty) or half a bowl (about 2 ounces) of tofu flower for each meal.
Nuts: mainly walnuts, almonds, peanuts and so on. However, you must reduce the amount of edible oil while taking extra food, that is, if you eat about15g of dried fruit, you should reduce the edible oil accordingly.
Beware of sugar-free food.
Some biscuits, cakes and drinks marked "sugar-free" on the market are not suitable for eating. These foods just don't contain sucrose, which still contains a lot of carbohydrates and oils, and starch is indispensable for making sugar-free cookies and cakes, so sugar lovers can't eat it at will.
Homemade extra food
1, bean dregs cake with scallion oil
(1) Appropriate amount of soybean. Beating soybean milk with a soymilk machine will leave bean dregs, and soybean milk can be drunk in the morning.
(2) A small amount of flour is added to the bean dregs. Beat in an egg, add some soybean milk and stir well until it becomes dry and mushy.
③ Add a little salt, chopped green onion and carrot and mix well again.
(4) Put a thin layer of oil in the pot and pour in the batter.
⑤ Use a small fire to condense on both sides.
2, miscellaneous grains small steamed bread
① Take 250g of white flour and 250g of miscellaneous flour (corn flour, millet flour, naked oats flour, soybean flour, etc.). ) and two eggs, and use low fat/sugar-free milk.
(2) After dough mixing, divide into 10 or 20 steamed buns.
③ 20 minutes after waking up, and steam for 20 minutes on medium fire.
The glycemic index of such steamed bread is only half lower than that of white flour, which is not only conducive to stabilizing blood sugar, but also contains dietary fiber, minerals, high-quality protein and other nutrients.