the numbers she told you did not add up, From the meal plan you posted here I broke down and tried to explain the basics. Please remember that these are rough numbers, real food seldom fits neatly into a set amount of grams of carbs. Here is how the numbers play out.

Breakfast

• 2 Portions from bread group or 30 g carbs


• 1 Portion from Fruit or 15 g carbs


• 1 Portion from milk (1 cup 8 fl oz) or 12 g carbs


• WATER


• meal total= 57 g carbs

Lunch

• 2 Portions from bread group or 30 g carbs


• 1 Portions from fruit or 15 g carbs


• 1 Portion from milk (1 cup 8 fl oz) or 12 g carbs


• 2 Portion(s) Vegetables (portion=1/2 cup) or 10 g carbs


• 3 oz Meat


• WATER


• meal total= 67 g carbs

Dinner

• 2-3 Portions from bread group or 30-45 g carbs


• 1 Portion from fruit or 15 g carbs


• 1 Portion from milk (1 cup 8 fl oz) or 12 g carbs


• 2 Portion(s) Vegetables (portion=1/2 cup) or 10 g carbs


• 3 oz Meat


• WATER


• meal total= 67-82 g carbs

Daily Total: 191-206 g carbs

As far as the calories 1500 is a pretty standard number for fast weight loss. You should not approach a 1200 cal plan without a very good reason, and constant input by a doctor who is paying attention to your condition. You are better off with the higher cal count and lose the weight and stay healthy than to drop the plan because it was unrealistic and your health suffers. Depriving your body will lead to cravings, which can end up causing you to binge. Steady wins the race. The weight will come off, and your numbers will drop, and you can do it without feeling constant hunger and dissatisfied.

I hope this helps see what they were saying to you. Best Wishes and better health.

Will

Will

Ok, now you got that stuff and it is important, now you got to break it down a little more and do it so you can understand it and you also got to factor in how food efects you, wha the food does for you and effects you plus drugs, (i.e. insulin, pills etc etc etc.) It is a bit difernt fo T1's and T2's depending on how you choose to take care of it and eat and meds, there is alot of things your on the high wire with trying to ballance with your cute umbrella.

The key word is useally ballance and I would bet that you acctually do it more often than you realize ad whe you get diaticians and diabetic educators like that it makes it hard because theyleave you with an atatude that if they dont care and could be doing somethgn difernt, then why should you. Trust me, I've delt with alot of them my whole life and just have found ways for me to understand it.

Since I race and have loved cars and motercycles all my life, I think about how to take anormal car and make it into a screaming monster that makes my mouth water. (Yea, I'm a guy) But I also know how stuff effects me like my drugs, and acctivity and what ever and it has taken a while and it changes. Expect to make mistakes, don't be too hard when you do and with nit witz, you can and should stand up for yourself.

I grew up with this stuff, I've always been on some kind of diet and when I get hospitalized, I got to get back on my wa of being because they wont nessasarly listin to somone who knows themself after so much education and oxygen delpleation from "head up butt" insertation.

Hopefully we can help you understand yourself, and it's your own way of taking care of yourself, because yo will know when it is working. :o)

I wish you well

Robert

Robert