20/03/2023
Follow the following instructions to manage high blood sugar!!!
1. Totally avoid and stop eating all processed foods.
2. Totally avoid and stop eating all deep fried foods, you can opt for air frying🙂
3. Eat breakfast between 8am and 10am, make sure your breakfast is a light meal and is fibre rich and also has low glycaemic index.
4. Eat lunch between 12pm and 2pm, depending on when you took your breakfast to allow for at least 4 hours interval between them and breakfast has been digested. Your heaviest meals of each day should be taken at this time🙏🏿
5. Dinner should be between 4pm and 6pm and strictly not later than 6pm to allow for proper digestion before you sleep. Meals at this time should be light too, easily digestible and have low glycaemic index too.
6. Drink enough water, at least 3Litres each day. Make sure you drink water with your food and specifically between an hour or 2 after meals. This is necessary because spikes from our food happens between 1 to 2 hours of eating, water can dilute the glucose spike and balance the dips.
7. You can snack between breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner with fruits, seeds and nuts.
8. Totally avoid processed white sugar and sweeteners. Replace with raw honey or date powder. Raw honey and date powder have a better balanced spikes and dips in our body when taken but take note not to exceed a tablespoon/day.
9. If you live a sedentary lifestyle or your work is mostly sedentary, for every hour of sitting, endeavour to stand and walk around or do light exercises around your desk for 5 minutes. Endeavour to repeat every hour🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
10. To boost your metabolism, whenever you eat, especially heavy meals, walk around for 3 to 5 minutes, it really helps to boost your metabolism. Note please, walk not exercise 🙏🏿
11. To help with insulin sensitivity , do light exercises in the evening, about 2 hours after dinner for 15 to 20 minutes🙏🏿
Note please🙏🏿light exercises not heavy exercises🙏🏿
12. Try to incorporate at least 30 minutes walking into your schedule everyday, if you can do this in the morning, good! It will increase your body's metabolic processes.