The more I read and watch, the more I'm leaning towards Paleo

For those who are type 2 diabetic, one of the hardest things is the diet change.  Unfortunately, the medical community isn't making this easier.

My nutritionist, in our first meeting, gave me the following guidelines to follow:

• 1200 to 1500 calories a day (reasoning: up until I saw her I had started cutting my carbs down, and noticed that there were days where I wouldn't get to 1200 calories even though I wasn't particularly hungry. Her reasoning was that 1200 calories was not sustainable over a long period of time)
• 135 to 170 grams of carbs a day.  This meant about 45 grams per meal, and between 15 to 30 for snack.

Yes, I've been losing the weight on this, but I'm still not feeling particularly "healthy" yet, which is my goal.  Even with medication, I'm having a hard time most days getting below 100 (even though I'm considered at a healthy level according to American Diabetics Association guidelines).

One of the interesting things about going on the ADA boards is the number of diabetics on there that are fighting the ADA on their guidelines, in particular the dietary ones.  Buying a cookbook from the ADA is often not advised (most of the people on the boards recommend buying cookbooks that say "low carb" over "diabetic"), and some on the boards are questioning why the ADA is advising people to follow the food pyramid.

Even with what my dietician has told me, I had to question it a bit.  I mean, why recommend ANY carbs to a diabetic to begin with?  My nutritionist explained to me that whole wheats don't raise blood sugar as fast as processed "white" foods, so they were "okay."  This didn't make any sense to me, because to me a carb is a carb.

Okay.  I tested that theory out one afternoon after lunch when I was diagnosed.  I had bought a double fiber whole wheat bread, and made a sandwich from it.  I tested my blood sugar before lunch, and then again an hour after I ate.

Blood sugar spiked much higher than it does on the light wheat that I'm eating now.  So no more whole wheat for me.

Right now, I feel like I'm slowly weaning myself off of wheat altogether.  I just used the last of my current batch of light wheat bread, so I probably won't buy any more of it.  The only carbs from my breakfast this morning were from my veggie juice, and my starches for the past two meals were from peas.

So, I'm not quite paleo at this point, but my habits over the past few weeks are leaning towards that direction.  I'm slowly working my way towards that goal, and I hope that I can eventually get hubby on board to it, as well.