Reply #42: Lots of good advice here.

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A couple more suggestions. Get a glucose meter from your doctor if you haven't already (they are usually free if from them) and learn how to blood test yourself. If you hate needles ask for one you can use on your arm. They really are painless. Keep a food diary. If it goes in your mouth it gets written down. Use it with the meter and you can find out what food you are more sensitive to and know to avoid them. If you are so busy you can't write it down right away use your cell phone camera to take pictures of everything you eat and write it down later.

I fought and fought with my DH over that. Doctor finally made him do it and between the food diary and glucose readings it was the first "diet" he ever maintained for more than a month. Plus his glucose readings are always in normal range now. His bad "bad" cholesterol went down 200. You don't want to know how high it was, farm raised on southern farm food should give you a good idea.