Diabetes Burnout Puts Your Healthy Diet At Risk

It can be hard to keep a healthy diet when experiencing Diabetes Burnout. Diabetes Burnout is a natural and rational response to living with this demanding, long-term condition. It affects 44% of people diagnosed with diabetes, and they have been consistently linked with higher HbA1c levels.

Suffering from ‘Diabetes Burnout’?

Symptoms² can include:

• You are feeling overwhelmed and defeated by diabetes.
• You are worrying about not taking enough care of your diabetes but unmotivated or unwilling to change.
• You don’t care about blood sugar levels.
• You keep reverting to unhealthy behaviours (e.g. poor diet).

Every food choice you make has the potential to send your blood glucose soaring, some more than others. Selecting the right foods in the right portion at every meal and snack is fundamental to good control. So, no matter how many years you have had diabetes, you need to get the diet basics right. Start now.

Start getting your foundations right by reading the tips below:

Learn How You Can Be Empowered With Diabetes-Specific Formulas (DSFs)!

Eating healthy and well-balanced meals and snacks that are carbs controlled and made up of low GI foods is the right way to get your diabetic diet on track, and enjoy and sustain it over time. However, if you are not able to figure out the details or put the instructions to practice daily, and are struggling with blood glucose highs and lows, a diabetes-specific formula as part of your individualised meal plan may help you achieve better glycemic control with greater convenience and confidence.

Designed for people with diabetes, diabetes-specific formulas deliver complete and balanced nutrition, and are scientifically designed with slowly absorbed carbohydrates to be low GI as well. Here’s how you may include it in your individualised meal plan:

1. Swap A Snack. Tempted by the calorie and carbs-laden curry puff or kueh lapis? Replace unhealthy, high GI snacks with an equal calorie portion of diabetes-specific formula.
2. Do a Partial Meal Replacement. A favourite meal choice sending your blood sugar out of whack? Eat only half the portion and top up the remaining allocated calories for the meal (if any) with a diabetes-specific formula.
3. Replace an Entire Meal. Want to lose weight effectively to attain good blood glucose control? Find that you are either missing a meal or giving in to temptations at a meal time? How about giving up your roasted chicken rice meal (534 calories¹) for a controlled portion of diabetes-specific formula to save 309 calories immediately. Sustained over time, you will see the extra pounds peel off.

REFERENCES
¹ Source: HPB’s ‘Energy & Nutrient Composition of Food’ website
² Source: Accessed on 23 November 2019 at https://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Life-with-diabetes/Diabetes-burnout

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