The American Diabetes Association recommends a diet that can be monitored by this site as well. Always follow the advice of your doctor, but generally speaking the American Diabetes Association recommends:

1800 calories per day
60 grams of protein per day

• Most adults with diabetes have insulin resistance, a condition that is aggravated and often caused by being overweight and not exercising.

• That means if you lose weight and exercise at least 30 minutes every day, you will reduce your need for diabetes medications and in some cases be able to stop medication altogether.

• Foodnumbers.com helps you decrease the number of calories you take in while you are working at "working out," increasing the number of calories you expend.

• Your goal is to use at least 500 calories more than you eat every day, which should result in your losing about 1 lb every week.

• You will be most successful if you chart your calorie intake every day and also exercise every day.

• If you can lose and maintain 10% of your body weight, the result will be a meaningful decrease in insulin resistance.

• Even if you are in the normal weight range, losing weight can improve diabetes.

• Losing weight and exercising also lowers blood pressure.