(Part 2) Best diabetic & sugar-free cooking books according to redditors

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Sugar-Bad-yourself-addiction/dp/1784282391. Processed sugar and processed carb addiction is a real thing. It makes you do stuff and eat stuff which are not good for you ,but you can't stop , even if you are aware of the negative effects. Like with every addiction, it is not your fault, you fell into a trap. Allen Carr saved my life, I can only reccomend his books/seminars.

I'm very suspicious of any "raw" diet. Raw diets are nutritionally inadequate. There's a book on how to treat diabetes by Dr. Neal Barnard (link), but I can't confirm if it's a reliable source or not.

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Also the book "sugar fix" may interest you. He explains how/why/what causes uric acid to build up and create high blood pressure in some.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.amazon.com/Sugar-Fix-High-Fructose-Fallout-Making/dp/143910168X&ved=2ahUKEwiGudXEhbXiAhVBiOAKHZ2ODYkQFjANegQIChAC&usg=AOvVaw1NuF5pptOAuTyTGfrBp6K9

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I recently ordered Eat What You Love Everyday. Almost everything my wife has made from it has been pretty delicious. My favorite so far is the Bodacious 50-50 Burger. Heck, it even has bacon it it!

Hey! So I'm Celiac and also pretty much all foods are inflammatory. Oddly enough, they had a hard time diagnosing my Celiac because all of my symptoms are autoimmune, not digestive in nature. The doctor who ended up diagnosing me was a specialist and he writes books/cookbooks. Recently, I was having a lot of problems again so I did his 10-Day Bloodsugar Solution detox. Its basically dairy-free, gluten-free, grain-free, starch-free, and caffeine-free (though I caved with caffeine 5 days in). But the point is to help reset your digestive tract. Anyway, after all of this, if you don't want to actually do the detox plan (tons of fresh veggies and meats, so I loved it), he also has a cookbook that goes with it full of recipes, and tons more on his blog! I have it and love a lot of the recipes! I think you can also find most of them by searching foodbloggers who followed his plan :)

Watch this or read this. Also, even though I don't have the condition, there are medical reasons some people do this.

I actually just finished reading the first half of this book[1] (the second half are recipes.) This book was written by a Type 1 diabetic who originally was an engineer. His wife, a doctor, purchased one of the first blood glucose monitors only available to doctors at the time. He used it to develop the diet laid out in that book (and a much more comprehensive book about diabetes management all together.[2]) He eventually went and got a medical degree so his findings could be given some weight.

His plan is effectively 30g of carbs a day, split 6-12-12 (breakfast, lunch, dinner). He goes into all the "stealth" sugars in food and how to avoid them, along with some specific products he mentions that he's found useful personally. The over arching idea is the Law of Small Numbers, meaning the fewer carbs you eat, the less it affects your body. More importantly, the less insulin's variable effectiveness impacts your blood sugar levels.

I personally am seeing positive weight and glucose level changes in my life because I follow a low carb diet as outlined in his book.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SEHPTC

[2]http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bernsteins-Diabetes-Solution-Achieving-ebook/dp/B004QZ9PC4

Well guess I can't link any LEGO because you know the situation on that. :) Hmmm... Funko Pop... I mean I could use a companion to talk to and discuss my code with and figure it out... that is a possible need. I think I will go with this cookbook. I enjoy baking and like to bake but my blood sugar has been out of wack and I am diabetic so I am attempting to cut out sweets (and a lot of carbs) all together, but every once and awhile I do crave sweets. Would be nice to be able to bake myself something that would be better for me. Is this really a need, dessert... I guess not. Damn. lol. I'll post this post anyways since I have already typed it out. :)

Thanks for the contest. Go Watsoned!

It’s a little ways off, but Kyndra Holley (Peace Love and Low Carb) has a dairy free keto cookbook coming out. She’s got an Instagram as well and is talking alot about dairy free cooking lately. https://www.amazon.com/Dairy-Free-Keto-Cooking-Nutritional/dp/1628603690/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=WFUUR303U04A&keywords=dairy+free+keto+cookbook&qid=1554950812&s=gateway&sprefix=dairy&sr=8-3

I was a celiac long before my T1 diagnosis. I treat diabetes exactly the same way: my body can't handle carbs? Great, stop eating carbs.

This is the diet I'm on:

http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Diabetes-Prevent-Reverse/dp/B00I8OQ28O

The upshot is my A1C is down to 5.5, my sugars are dramatically easier to control, and I use a lot less insulin. Since I use smaller doses of insulin, I very rarely have lows.

This low-carb cookbook. I'm at quite a low ebb, 5 stone overweight, and finally trying to take control of my weight... I'm going well so far, and found this lady's amazing website with loads of lovely recipes - and then discovered she'd published this ebook. This would be amazing - and great to have on hand too :)

" There is no magic cookbook for this disease. "


Exactly! There should be. Just because your pancreas tries to stomp you in the soul once in a while doesn't mean you have to subsist on chicken broth and jello forever. There are cookbooks for kidney disease, lyme disease, allergies/asthma/celiac/egg allergy/dairy allergy, heart disease, IBS, and of course diabetes, inflamation, cancers, liver, etc. and etc. and on and on.

There is one kindle ebook on Amazon, The Pancreatitis Diet Bible , that is pretty well lambasted in the reviews. I can see why, the first couple sections are reviews on juicers. It's wrought with spelling errors, and recipes missing ingredients, cook time and temps, etc.

Given this disease is so dependent on appropriate diet, it should have some cookbooks and meal planning guides specifically tailored to the condition, yet none really exists.

I like all of Carolyn Ketchum's cookbooks. (Alldayidreamaboutfood.com)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1628602775/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=aldaidrabfo05-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1628602775&linkId=442f37d6c0548ba3cf2e8b54e994c745

Taste of Home Diabetes Cookbook:... https://www.amazon.com/dp/1617656836?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

This one is pretty decent! But honestly Pinterest is your friend...

Here is one perspective. I'll write it as fact, but it may not apply to you. Also I'm typing this late so please excuse errors.

First of all, give yourself a break. Life is hard particularly the way we work in little boxes these days. I have yo-yo dieted many times in my life. I have tried every fad diet. I have always gained it back. This time around I started reading psychology books on the topic of binge eating and emotional eating along with the 100th diet/nutrition theory book.

To sum it up, you are self loathing in a way such that you don't care in the moment that you are harming yourself. You are judging and holding resentment for yourself. This self loathing is fueling very negative emotions that stimulate your need for soothing aka emotional eating.

Oddly enough, obese people tend to be perfectionists and along with it feel great disappointment when they fail, further stoking the depression flames and subsequent poor eating. Managing the perfectionism on the front end reduces the disappointment on the back end and can hopefully lead to a centered eating behavior instead of a yo-yo extreme eating behavior.

I'm here to tell you that the starvation you have planned along with excessive exercise and anger and will only lead to failure in the end. Binge eating and excessive exercise are consider two sides of the same eating disorder coin. Step outside your skin, like the person you see, and help them start to eat plenty of healthy food they like and enjoy, but avoid the binge eating and or the very low quality foods.

Consider these steps:

1. The self hate you are feeling right now is actually a large component of the problem. Accept that fact that harboring these emotions is a real problem.
   
   
2. Wake up tomorrow and love yourself. You are a person that has lots of good traits and some bad. In loving yourself, make sure you focus on the positive things in your life, make sure your body gets healthy nourishing food (never starve yourself again. ever), and realize that if you over eat one meal, failure is not realized. Control your disappointment, and you can reduce the negative emotions that drive the weight gain. Don't let the self disappointment and feelings of failure creep in, they will stimulate over eating given your natural tendencies.
   
   
3. When you over eat, instead of getting mad at yourself or feeling like a failure. Pretend that you are a 3rd party observer. Ask yourself why you over ate? Were you justified because you were really hungry, or was it due to depression, job stress, relationship stress, disease, ect. Start realizing what drives the insanity when you binge eat for this is the root of the problem further driven home by the feeling of failure from the over eating and unwanted weight.
   
   
4. walk every day. Make it part of your routine at lunch or with your dog or kids or friend or lover. walk. It's easy to do, provides life long exercise, and can be a time for meditation and self centering. you can walk when you are injured, you can walk when you are old, you can walk when it's hot, you can walk when you have a baby or small kids, you can walk on vacation, or at work, or with a friend. walk everyday at work after lunch. Visualize your body as a well oiled machine taking in mostly healthy food and giving you life. I know this sounds stupid, but you know that feeling when you eat and live in balance. What I'm saying is embrace that feeling everyday and avoid self-loathing. Instead of that feeling after you eat too much trash food, visualize that feeling when you know your body got a healthy amount of high nutrient density food and it's turning it into high quality life.
   
   
5. Don't stroke perfectionism in your diet. If you count every calorie and gram of carbs/fat, not only will you be a kill joy, but you will also draw lines in the sand to feel like a failure. This right here will get me lots of down votes, but after decades of yo-yo dieting, I know that moments in time (months) of great discipline that don't heal your negative relationship with food, will only create the failure and hate you are experiencing now when they ultimately fail. Counting calories is not bad per say, but doing it in a fashion that starves yourself will lead to metabolic changes of a negative character.
   
   So part 1 is manage the negative emotions, moderate exercise, and be scientific about your eating behavior. Observe, don't hate, realize what drives the behavior and attempt to redirect. It's hard and will take years to accomplish correctly, but fad dieting will only lead you to greater weight gain,self hate, depression and a low quality of life.
   
   So part 2 is about the food. Low fat, low carb, Paleo, vegan... there is lots of shit out there for you to latch onto as an answer. We all want to discover the perfect protocol for weight loss and good life. While one type of eating may be slightly better than another, most of us are full of shit when we embrace a single way of eating as a religion. Plenty of healthy people that live very long lives eat lots of meat, are vegan, eat beans, don't eat beans, love sausage, don't love sausage. at the end of the day, if you focus on a fad diet, you won't focus on what's important, learning a healthy relationship with food. moderate exercise, consuming the nutrients your body needs without excessive calories, avoiding pollution, believing in something greater than yourself, enjoying your job, avoiding depression and self hate.... that is what a person needs, not a meat free diet, or avoiding beans, or only eating non-fat items. These diet concepts fuel the mental illness of being over weight and unhappy with ourselves.
   
   Some people have specific health problems and can't eat certain foods, but most do not.
   
   Due to 50 years of government subsidized completely wrong dietary guidelines, we have all been attempting to eat low fat. This has resulted in an exponential increase in the consumption of processed carbohydrates. simple (aka processed) Carbohydrate metabolism requires lots of insulin to manage your blood sugar at a normal levels. High insulin levels change your behavior and how you store fat. Most fat people have insulin levels 2-4 times greater than a skinny person. The over consumption of processed carbohydrates is killing america in the diet category. This along with many people never eating vegetables, which provide a broad array of nutrients and vitamins. By avoiding large servings of rice and potatoes and mostly avoiding processed carbohydrates (75% of what the average person eats), you will lose weight without trying.
   
   I highly recommend the following book as a dietary guideline. It is the mostly poorly named book I have ever read, but what's inside is like a bible for living healthy in a non-extreme non-perfectionist manner. It's a book about fighting off diabetes, but applies to most overweight Americans and just shares great general knowledge without being preachy. It reads easy and in my opinion offers explanations and guidelines for eating mostly healthy and living a non-extreme exercise non-extreme diet life where your body and food can work together to create a happy life.
   
   https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1609618432/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1469283116&sr=8-1&keywords=sugar+blockers+diet
   
   Sorry...if this is all over the place. Just wanted to reach out to you. Be happy, don't hate yourself, observe your behavior like a great friend that wants to help you and does not have judgmental tendencies, learn what emotions and life situations stimulate soothing with food, reduce the junk carbs you know are bad for you, eat lots of vegetables, fruit and meats you love, highly moderate high-starches like potatoes and rice, and start an exercise routine that you can do for the rest of you life....walk. Good luck!

That's awesome it's working for you. My otoneurologist has me on a similarly-strict but slightly different "migraine" diet here: https://www.amazon.com/Migraine-Relief-Plan-Transition-Headaches/dp/1572842091/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=migraine+relief+plan&qid=1566362314&s=gateway&sr=8-3

It's not the AIP diet but it's a similar idea. One of the main differences is that I can have eggs and some softer cheese (although I'm going to remove all cheese). Instead of just diving right in, this book eases you into the diet and helps guide you through the process over the first few weeks, slowly removing things. Then it helps re-introduce foods to help figure out your triggers.

I'm on week 6 right now now so I've almost eliminated everything. Finally removed gluten about 10 days ago, which I'm hoping is gonna be a trigger for me. I'm down to about 1200mg of sodium per day. The diet removes a *ton* of other possible triggers. I still don't think I've seen any results quite yet, but it's a long process

A comment from Amazon.Com:

5.0 out of 5 stars - The recipes are already kid-approved at my house

January 18, 2018
Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

This is my kind of cookbook - reasonably short ingredient lists and clear instructions for everything from main dishes to sides, snacks, beverages and even desserts! I have a goal to lower my family's sugar intake and my three kids (ages 9, 7 and 3) found lots of recipes that excited them in this book. Those we've tested so far were hits with my discerning eaters and, big bonus: made primarily with ingredients already stocked in my kitchen.

Amazon.com: Mom's Sugar Solution: 150 Low-Sugar Recipes for Your Kids' Favorite Foods, Sweet Treats, and More! (9781507204856): Laura Chalela Hoover MPH RDN: Books

https://www.amazon.com/Moms-Sugar-Solution-Low-Sugar-Favorite/dp/150720485X/

One of these following 3 books would be lovely, just one would be greatly appreciated. My fiance just found out he is diabetic and it would be nice to find some pleasant treats to cook for him. He's pretty bummed about it and I would love to cook him something that would be good for him but also cheer him up.

book 1:
http://www.amazon.com/Diabetes-Snacks-Treats-Easy-Eats/dp/1572841087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321544095&sr=8-1

book 2:
http://www.amazon.com/Super-Sweet-Treats-Diabetics-Delectable/dp/1402708963/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1321544095&sr=8-4

book 3:
http://www.amazon.com/Diabetic-Sweet-Treats-Karin-Cadwell/dp/0806959681/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1321544095&sr=8-2

I know the last book lists it at $40 new, but they also list it starting at a penny used, and I would happily take a used book. I don't need anything new and pretty.