Excess weight complicates the course of type 2 diabetes, so the main task of the patient is to streamline his diet. Increasing the amount of protein and fiber, and limiting carbohydrates is the first principle of weight loss.

Most patients who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are wondering how to eliminate excess weight. After all, in addition to worsening the appearance of the patient, it leads to many other problems, a decrease in the quality of life, and the likelihood of vascular diseases. Conversely, people with increased body weight are at risk for type 2 diabetes. Endocrinologists, diabetologists and nutritionists, when asked how to lose weight with type 2 diabetes with or without insulin, what kind of diet is needed, unanimously argue that you need to carefully review your lifestyle and diet.

Menu composition

The nutritional diet for diabetes should comply with the following requirements.

1. Be low calorie. For 1 kilogram of the patient's weight, there should be no more than 25 kilocalories per day.
2. Fractional. Five meals a day allows you to better satisfy hunger, speeds up metabolism.
3. Do not contain fast carbohydrates, which are the main source of calories.
4. Being limited in the amount of salt - it retains water.
5. Include at least a third of vegetable fats for diabetes from their total amount.
6. Exclude the use of alcoholic beverages. Smoking is also contraindicated in diabetes.
7. To be balanced in protein, fat and carbohydrate composition, the number of trace elements, vitamin complexes.
8. Contain a sufficient amount of fiber, dietary fiber.

More about fiber

Diabetes mellitus is characterized by impaired carbohydrate metabolism. This means that you need to pay special attention to their use, and also try to reduce it due to fiber. This step allows you to improve their digestibility, reduce their absorption into the bloodstream, thereby reducing the level of glycemia. A useful side effect is that the body is cleansed of toxins and toxins.

Fiber is only useful for diabetics who want to reduce their weight. For healthy people, it is also indispensable. Its dietary fibers swell when they enter the digestive tract, due to which a person does not feel hunger for a long time.

The therapeutic effect in relation to the disease occurs when fiber is consumed simultaneously with complex carbohydrates.

The diet of a diabetic must necessarily include vegetables, but not potatoes, since they contain a large amount of simple carbohydrates, but no fiber, due to which it has a high glycemic index. Foods such as beets, legumes or carrots should also be somewhat limited for the same reason. The main vegetables that are allowed to eat are:

• tomatoes;
• cucumbers;
• eggplant;
• pepper;
• radish;
• zucchini;
• squash.

It is also allowed to use pumpkin or sorrel.

Bread should not be completely excluded, as it contains a large amount of vitamins. It is best to replace the usual loaf with durum wheat products, preferably with bran, since they contain fiber. Among the permitted cereals, buckwheat, pearl barley and corn stand out due to the high content of cellulose.

Regarding fruits, the most useful for a diabetic will be those that have some sourness, since they have a minimum content of fast carbohydrates. It is allowed to use blueberries, lingonberries, citrus fruits (but not sweet tangerines or hybrids), plums, cherries.

Main nutritional features

For effective weight loss, a diabetic must be in some calorie deficit. This will allow you to lose weight by 500 grams in 2 weeks. With severe obesity, you can lose weight more rapidly, this will achieve a rapid improvement in the condition. It is necessary to follow simple recommendations.

1. Limit your intake of animal fats at the expense of butter, margarine, milk and dairy products. It is not recommended to eat cheese, ice cream, meat products such as sausages, sausages, smoked meats, and canned food.
2. The main source of protein is boiled egg white, lean fish, turkey breast, chicken, veal.
3. Exclusion of all kinds of offal - stomachs, hearts, liver, tongue. They can be consumed no more than 1-2 times a month. Egg yolk should also be limited due to its high fat and cholesterol content, protein can be unlimited.
4. Any oil, including olive or soybean, should also be eliminated from the diet as much as possible.
5. Without any restrictions, you can lean on vegetables, whole grains, except for rice.

The main source of nutrition for weight loss are those foods that contain a large amount of dietary fiber and fiber. Due to this, a decrease in the digestibility of carbohydrates is achieved, an improvement in their processing, which leads to a decrease in the level of glycemia and daily calorie intake. These recommendations should be consistent with a subcalorie diet, that is, a person spends more energy reserves per day than he receives with food.

Supplementation with vitamin complexes is recommended, especially for vitamins A and D. This step is due to the fact that a nutritious diet with a calorie deficit is usually not balanced in these indicators, especially in diabetes. Sorbitol or xylitol can act as sweeteners or sweeteners, but it is also better to abandon them in favor of natural products - stevia, or eliminate them completely. If there is no weight loss, it is necessary to completely revise the diet and look for the reason for this situation in that the patient may not comply with all the prescribed recommendations.

One of the methods of weight loss

In addition to changing the nutritious diet, which allows you to effectively reduce weight, there are many methods that are auxiliary measures. One of them focuses on the consumption of foods made at home based on vegetables that contain a large amount of insoluble fiber.

To make this product, beets are scrolled in a meat grinder or juice is squeezed out of it. From the resulting cake, balls the size of beans should be made. Their shelf life in the refrigerator is up to two weeks. The use of these balls involves lubricating them with vegetable oil, after which they are swallowed, they cannot be chewed.

They are consumed daily after breakfast and lunch, three tablespoons each. As soon as the patient begins to feel that he is hungry, two more spoons should be taken. This can significantly reduce hunger. As soon as the weight in diabetes has decreased to normal numbers, you should switch to a single dose of the remedy in order to maintain a normal body weight.

Beetroot allows you to cleanse the blood of toxins and toxins, stimulates the work of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract, positively affects the tone of the vascular wall, normalizes glycemia and stabilizes blood pressure.