Question: I need to lose weight. I generally lose weight fast when I am on a diet, the diet is often difficult to stay on. I am a vegetarian, but I sometimes eat fish and chicken but I am not eating chicken anymore. Although,. I eat healthy foods, I look like I eat at McDonalds because I eat too much cheese and olive oil--such as I love XXXXXXX oily dishes and exotic spinach dishes like spinach paneer--oftenmade with too much oil for me who is dieting.. 1. I am thinking about going on a raw foods diet but the one I saw that helps reverse diabetes uses nuts (walnuts, almonds) for protein, and I noticed that nuts can have a negative effect on my medication working, and I saw that fungus may be a cause as it is with peanuts and most nuts in the USA are manufactured in peanut manufacturing areas. I love nuts, and I do not see that I am allergic to them, but that my medication does not work as well if I take it with them as a meal.
2. I believe that fungus or toxins that fungus produces is part of the problem of my blood sugar rise as when I use antifungal/antibacterial tablets such as Caprylic Acid with Grapefruit Seed extract, my blood sugar does not rise overnight or at other times when I do not eat. If I do not use them, then my blood sugar will rise even if I do not eat as my liver seems to be putting out too much sugar as though it is feeding something like a fungus.
3. I understand that rice and corn can also contain harmful fungal toxins--what other foods should I stay away from. I know I should not eat flour, high carbs, sugar.
4. My blood sugar went up 50 points from eating plain white fish (around 3 oz) sautéed in a little coconut oil (very little) with unsweetened coconut. This would not have happened with 3 oz of tuna fish from a can made with onion and celery.
5. Are there any seaweed products that are shown to help alleviate high blood sugar?
6. Soup and drinks such as celery water seems to raise my blood sugar although celery itself with a glass of water does not.
7. Some research out of South Korea seems to state that silkworm powder helps alleviate diabetes and in some parts of Asia, mulberry tea is used to help alleviate diabetes. Would these be considered natural supplements because of a defiency of some sort such as a vitamin deficiency, or additives needed to help alleviate high blood sugar.
It looks like I need a customized diet with some options, so that I can remain on it for life, instead of the yoyo other diets that do not help me for one reason or another in the long run. The food choices do not seem a lot. I love rice and beans with vegetables and I could just eat that forever, but I cannot because I am a diabetic.