carbohydrates

There is a strong connection between carbohydrates, high blood sugars, and diabetes. Carbohydrates give your body the energy or fuel it needs to function properly.

There are two types of carbohydrates; simple and complex. Simple carbohydrates are in foods such as fruit sugar, corn or grape sugar, and table sugar. They are single-sugar molecules. Complex carbohydrates are foods that contain three or more linked sugars. So carbohydrates create blood sugars, and that’s where the problems start for people with diabetes. Understanding more about the connection helps to control your diabetes.

I was diagnosed with pre-diabetic several years ago, and my healthcare provider prescribed me a drug called metformin 5000mg. After taking this medication for 3 months, I knew I had to find a natural way to overcome diabetes before I got to the type 2 stage.

Therefore, I decided to take full control of my medical condition to control my blood sugar via diet, exercise, and supplements. Blood glucose control is extremely important for any person with diabetes – it is the only way of minimizing future health complications; heart disease; neuropathy resulting in amputations, kidney disease, and early death. I decided to try the Atkins diet because several of my friends had seen some success with weight loss or weight management. However, that wasn’t the case for me. My body needed more work or a more aggressive program.

Four years ago, my A1C sugar levels started to get out of control – they weren’t massively high but were creeping up. My Doctor increased my medication – with no real satisfactory results, my blood sugars were all over the place; I could go from a high reading at night and be woken by a hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) in the early hours.

Then I discovered the diets with HealthJourneyPro.com and, because I wanted to lose weight, I started to follow the low carbohydrate, high protein diet options within my program; at the same time, I got access to the “My Moves” to workout at home and in the gym.

That’s when I discovered the real connection between complex carbohydrates, high blood sugars, and diabetes. Suddenly my blood sugars levels stabilized, and it was because I was no longer piling in huge amounts of carbohydrate, which was elevating my blood sugars.

This seemed to fly in the face of conventional advice on the right diets – complex carbohydrate-rich – for diabetes. You see, I already understood I had to avoid sweet, sugary food – these contained simple carbohydrates. I hadn’t realized that the more complex carbohydrates like bread, potato, and cereals negatively affected my blood sugar.

But (there’s always a ‘but’ isn’t there?) the Atkins diet did not suit me. I had constant diarrhea, which was stressful and debilitating. So, I came off that diet after 3-4 months, and my blood sugars began to get out of control again.

But now I knew about the connection; all I needed to do was find the right program for me that followed the low carbohydrate principle. And just recently, while researching my diabetes website, I discovered a plan that suits me, and which I describe in more detail on my website for people with diabetes.

My advice to any diabetic and pre-diabetic, do your research! Understand the close connection between the complex carbohydrates you eat, how they affect your blood sugars, and how it can make it difficult to control your diabetes.

Once you understand that link, look for a diet or system that you can adapt to bring your blood sugars back under control safely. Additionally, I recommend you take a supplement that is designed to assist your body in controlling your blood sugar. After all of the research, I found these three online supplements to manage my blood sugar. I decided to use Healthy Body Weight Loss Pak™ – Original, Slender FX™ Sweet Eze, and Glucogenix. I now keep the weight off, and my doctor took me off all of my blood sugar medications. The combined work of supplements, diet change, and exercise helped me lose 30 pounds in 2 months. My blood sugar and diabetics are not a problem.

Remember, too many carbohydrates (complex or simple) give you high blood sugar levels, and if you have diabetes, it means your body cannot cope with the additional overload.