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The Anti-Diet Diabetes Diet

Natalie
Stein
April 17, 2019
The Anti-Diet Diabetes Diet | Diet for Diabetes - Lark Health
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What is the anti-diet? Can you lose weight by eating normally?

So… you have diabetes, you know that what you eat affects your diabetes, and you want to lose weight. It must be time to diet, right? Wrong!

Enter the Anti-Diet Diabetes Diet. This way of eating and approaching food can help you feel better each day, lose weight, and manage your blood sugar. Over time, an anti-diet can help lower your risk for diabetes complications and comorbidities such as high blood pressure and cholesterol, neuropathy, and heart disease. All you have to do is eat like you love yourself!

Food and Blood Sugar

What you eat (and how much) are as important for managing blood sugar as other self-management behaviors, such as exercising, measuring blood sugar, and taking any prescribed diabetes medications. Eating right can help lower blood sugar. An anti-diet may not specifically target weight loss, but healthy eating can have weight loss as a welcome side effect.

Diabetes Diet versus Anti-Diet for Diabetes

Let’s go back the idea of the anti-diet. For those people (are you one of them?) who have tried one, two, or dozens of diets, the anti-diet may be counterintuitive. It may be confusing if you are used to following strict rules and avoiding tempting foods. It may even be scary if you tend to think of “diets” as temporary and are unsure about a lifestyle change like an anti-diet.

Those concerns are all valid, but they are beatable. An anti-diet is not a green light to eat pizza and soda for breakfast, croissants for lunch, and ice cream for dinner every day. Instead, it is a way of living that focuses on how you feel, and eating foods that make you feel better. This approach can, at the same time, help you lose weight and lower blood sugar.


An anti-diet is a holistic approach to food. It emphasizes listening to your body and selecting foods that you truly want. This may include the occasional doughnut, hamburger, or piece of dark chocolate, but will more often include so-called “healthy foods” because, undeniably, you feel better when you eat them.

There is plenty of science to back up the choice of nutritious foods. Not only are they healthier in the long-term, but they have immediate benefits. You are more likely to feel proud of yourself for choosing them over junk foods. Furthermore, they can stabilize energy levels, keep your digestive system regular, and reduce hunger.

How Do I Anti-Diet?

Has dieting become second nature to you? Is it possible for someone not to know how to “anti-diet?” Absolutely! It is not always obvious which foods are most nutritious or how to focus on the process of healthy living rather than an end goal.

Since anti-dieting is personal, there is no rulebook. There is, however, some general information you can use when considering what to eat.

  • Less-processed foods tend to be healthier than more-processed foods. Processed foods are often higher in sodium, sugar, unhealthy fats, and calories, and lower in natural nutrients.
  • Cooking at home gives you more control than eating out. You can choose what goes into your food, how to cook it, and how much to serve yourself when you make your own food. Restaurant food can be high in salt, sugar, and fat, be prepared with heavy sauces or in cooking fats, and come in oversized portions.
  • How you eat matters. Eating slowly, enjoying your food, eating when you are hungry, and stopping when you are full, affect your weight and health just as much as what you eat.


It can take some practice to get out of the mindset of dieting to reach a goal, and into the habit of choosing foods that can let your body thrive. Lark Diabetes can help you:

  • Learn which foods can support blood sugar management and weight loss.
  • Develop a more positive relationship with food.
  • Build habits that let healthy living become more natural.

As you work with Lark to lose weight and eat right for diabetes, your personal Lark coach can also guide you in other self-management behaviors that can make a world of difference in your blood sugar and A1C levels. You may be surprised and thrilled at the power you have!

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