elnan

I think you would be surprised at the fat in a tortilla. My husband was diagnosed with diabetes about 2 years ago and asked me to help him lose weight. He prefers almond butter to the peanuts, and I eat that out of the jar with a soup spoon.

I won't buy anything with artificial sweetener.

We eat out a lot and any order he places is preceeded by the statement "NO bread". He loves the chili hamburger that a local place serves. They know now to leave off the bun and just dish it up onto a plate. I was relentless in cracking the whip where his food consumption was concerned. Unfortunately, I ate like a pig the whole time. Lettuce and kale took the place of the bread he loved and craved, using the leaf as a wrapper for the food. I got up early each day and prepared large containers of raw vegetables for him to dip in a fage greek yogurt dip. The raw vegetables were anything that could be cut into bite sized hold in the hand food. Raw sweet potatoes cut into matchsticks along with sweet peppers were a favorite. He is very active and has a high metabolism, so took off weight rapidly until he is down about 40 pounds from what he was at diagnosis. He has maintained that weight for at least a year. This area has a very active diabetes treatment group that schedules cooking classes about once a month, directed by a teaching RN and a nutritionist. The cooking classes are hands-on and my husband loves them because I usually chase him out of the kitchen. I read and checked out videos from the public library, trying to understand diabetes. We have now cut back on the raw veggies and buy a loaf of bread for him that has so many seeds and nuts in it that I hate it, but he loves it, eating only one slice a day.

What is interesting is what people will hear versus what the doctors or nutritionists tell them, like the husband and wife who come to these classes and believe that eating candy is the way to control their diabetic problems.