Misty, my book doesn’t prescribe any one diet. It says that you need to find out what diet works best for you. The best way to do this is to try eating different foods and measuring at 60 and 120 minutes after meals. I have a few graphs in my book. Derek Paice’s booklet “Diabetes and Diet” has a lot of graphs showing what his results were when he did this. You can download it free from www.dapaice.com.
Deciding how high you are willing to go after meals is a question of balancing health and quality of life. If you simply can’t live without some food, you should have it occasionally, and if necessary learn to use insulin to cover it. What is bad is a constant diet of highly processed carbs and high doses of insulin.
I think the healthiest diet is the former GO-Diet, reworked as the Four Corners Diet, which I helped the authors write. The book bombed, so you can probably buy a copy for a few cents plus shipping. It’s low-carb but high in mono fats and fiber and uses a lot of probiotics like yogurt.
We all miss things like potatoes and bread at first, but it’s amazing how ho-hum they taste when you haven’t had them for a long time. I’ve had about 5 pieces of bread in the past 10 years, and when I have it I wonder why I ever liked bread so much.