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28-Day Diabetes Diet Plan for Weight Loss: Recipes to Control Blood Sugar and Improve Your Health
Cook up healthy habits and take control of your diabetes
For many people with diabetes, weight loss is key to reducing symptoms and feeling great—but adjusting your diet and lifestyle can be challenging. Where do you even begin? This comprehensive guide removes the guesswork, helping you create a sustainable diabetic diet plan and optimize your health.
Get a diabetic cookbook that helps
Start meeting your health goals with the 28-Day Diabetes Plan for Weight Loss .
For many people with diabetes, weight loss is key to reducing symptoms and feeling great—but adjusting your diet and lifestyle can be challenging. Where do you even begin? This comprehensive guide removes the guesswork, helping you create a sustainable diabetic diet plan and optimize your health.
Get a diabetic cookbook that helps
Start meeting your health goals with the 28-Day Diabetes Plan for Weight Loss .
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Published May 31, 2022
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February 1, 2026
Today is day 28 of my implementation of this diet plan, and, coincidentally, I also finished a complete read-through of the book. Although I have criticisms, I have to begin with the fundamental fact: I lost a little over ten-pounds following this diet plan, which is about right for a step away from a prediabetes diagnosis, which I got for the second time back in November. In other words, the book did work for me: although I suspect that the major factors were eliminating all restaurant food and beer for one month, but this book did give me the recipes to fill in those gaps, so it certainly did not fail in its objective.
Now, the problems I have with this book largely center around the problem of a detailed “diet plan” such as this book lays out. It is all too easy to follow a diet plan for a month or so, lose some weight, and decide “problem fixed” and go back to bad habits. Worse, many people may find the plan itself too demanding (I didn’t, really, but more on this later) and give up halfway through. Often, it’s better to strategize incremental changes and incorporate them gradually in order to create changes you can live with long-term. This books certainly doesn’t discourage that approach, in fact the opening chapters recognize exactly these points, I think what the authors are responding to here is the urge many newly-diagnosed people have to just have everything plainly laid out for them and to give a try to an altered lifestyle, allowing them to learn what works and what doesn’t, then pick and choose those aspects and recipes that work for them.
Now, as a cookbook, I do have a few problems here. First, there is a tendency to assume that people already have the equipment needed. A few suggestions come in the early chapters, but, for example, they never mention the need for a muffin pan or a whisk, to say nothing of the various-sized pans a person needs to prepare each of these recipes. I had most of it (though a last-minute run to buy a muffin pan was needed), but it’s exactly the kind of people who need a book like this that need a lot of hand-holding, and it’s missing in this department. Another point is that pretty much all of the recipes are Midwest-bland, as written. I put a lot of cayenne on completed dishes, just to make them spicy enough to be interesting, and I am adding notes to add at least 2 slices of jalapeño to future iterations – of the ones I liked well enough to bother. A lot of the dishes aren’t really worth the effort, for me, unfortunately. There’s also a bizarre emphasis on drinking, and cooking with, cow’s milk (yuck!). Fortunately, in most cases almond milk worked well enough.
The plan is also written for someone who shares most meals with at least one person, although that wound up working fine for me. If you live alone and strictly follow the plan, as I did on the first week, you wind up with a LOT of leftovers. But, as I say, this wasn’t really a problem, because after that point I could strategize which recipes I was likely to really want to eat and just work from leftovers the rest of the time. As I say, it’s now Day 28 and there are just a few leftovers in the fridge right now, so no worries as I start planning for a my first “free” week.
On the whole, I can offer a reasonable endorsement: I’m going to copy the best of the recipes before I return the book to the library, keep working on portion control and exercise, and use the more long-term “Prediabetes Plan” from Hillary Wright, moving forward. Hopefully you won’t need to see too many more reviews like this one in the future, which would be the final measure of success. Now I’m going to finish off my chicken pesto panini for lunch.
Now, the problems I have with this book largely center around the problem of a detailed “diet plan” such as this book lays out. It is all too easy to follow a diet plan for a month or so, lose some weight, and decide “problem fixed” and go back to bad habits. Worse, many people may find the plan itself too demanding (I didn’t, really, but more on this later) and give up halfway through. Often, it’s better to strategize incremental changes and incorporate them gradually in order to create changes you can live with long-term. This books certainly doesn’t discourage that approach, in fact the opening chapters recognize exactly these points, I think what the authors are responding to here is the urge many newly-diagnosed people have to just have everything plainly laid out for them and to give a try to an altered lifestyle, allowing them to learn what works and what doesn’t, then pick and choose those aspects and recipes that work for them.
Now, as a cookbook, I do have a few problems here. First, there is a tendency to assume that people already have the equipment needed. A few suggestions come in the early chapters, but, for example, they never mention the need for a muffin pan or a whisk, to say nothing of the various-sized pans a person needs to prepare each of these recipes. I had most of it (though a last-minute run to buy a muffin pan was needed), but it’s exactly the kind of people who need a book like this that need a lot of hand-holding, and it’s missing in this department. Another point is that pretty much all of the recipes are Midwest-bland, as written. I put a lot of cayenne on completed dishes, just to make them spicy enough to be interesting, and I am adding notes to add at least 2 slices of jalapeño to future iterations – of the ones I liked well enough to bother. A lot of the dishes aren’t really worth the effort, for me, unfortunately. There’s also a bizarre emphasis on drinking, and cooking with, cow’s milk (yuck!). Fortunately, in most cases almond milk worked well enough.
The plan is also written for someone who shares most meals with at least one person, although that wound up working fine for me. If you live alone and strictly follow the plan, as I did on the first week, you wind up with a LOT of leftovers. But, as I say, this wasn’t really a problem, because after that point I could strategize which recipes I was likely to really want to eat and just work from leftovers the rest of the time. As I say, it’s now Day 28 and there are just a few leftovers in the fridge right now, so no worries as I start planning for a my first “free” week.
On the whole, I can offer a reasonable endorsement: I’m going to copy the best of the recipes before I return the book to the library, keep working on portion control and exercise, and use the more long-term “Prediabetes Plan” from Hillary Wright, moving forward. Hopefully you won’t need to see too many more reviews like this one in the future, which would be the final measure of success. Now I’m going to finish off my chicken pesto panini for lunch.
January 6, 2023
Enjoyed this book. There was a lot of "talking" at the beginning before the recipes, which gave a lot of information on what diabetes is and ways to manage it and prepare for following this plan. I really liked the recipes and the nutritional details that help with tracking. I haven't tried any of the recipes yet, but can't wait to give them a try.
March 2, 2023
Great and hopeful information.
I am looking at the possibility of diabetes in my future and this book brings clear and important information for taking care of myself and possibly preventing this from happening.
I am looking at the possibility of diabetes in my future and this book brings clear and important information for taking care of myself and possibly preventing this from happening.
July 28, 2022
I thought the blood sugar information was good but not a fan of the recipes
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