Having prediabetes does not mean that you can't eat certain foods. The solution isn't to avoid foods with sugar in them but to maintain your ideal weight. If you are overweight, your first and foremost goal should be to lose weight. This may mean working with a dietitian to determine the quantity and type of food you should eat at each meal. One of the key issues in losing weight is controlling portion size. Your dietitian will also direct you how to make food choices that cut down on the amount of fat you eat because each gram of fat has significantly more calories in it than a gram of carbohydrate or protein. This means:

• Type 1 Diabetes
• Type 2 Diabetes

• eating more foods that are broiled and fewer foods that are fried
• cutting back on the amount of butter you use in cooking or using margarine and olive oil instead of butter
• eating fish and chicken more and only lean cuts of beef
• eating more meatless meals, or reorienting your meals so that your dinner plate has more vegetables, fruit, and starches on it and less meat

Your dietitian will show you how you can continue to eat all the foods you love--probably just not in the same proportions as you have in the past.