Eating vegetables does help me since they are low carb foods. Nothing happens on the meter.

Eating fish is good as well. No real impact on my meter. I should state I am a type 2.

Eating fish, meats and veggies minimizes my needs for bolus injections, which I use to compensate for carbs and keep my reading down below 100 with peaks not exceeding 120-140.

I eat nuts too; mostly cashews, but I need to limit how much I do eat.

Exercise definitely helps keep my BG down. A half hour walk will lower by BG considerably; in fact I have to be careful it doesn't go too low. I believe this is increasing insulin sensitivity and suddenly my "normal" Novolog injection for a set amount of carbs becomes too much if I exercise and thus I get a low down into the 60s. 60s are OK but they are definitely as far low as I like to go. I get those weird feeling in the 60s and further down.

White stuff is inviting an out of control peak. I limit grains when I am behaving properly, which is most of the time. Forget rice, potatoes. But I succumb to pasta now and then and must bolus for it and bolus again a couple of hours later to keep it from getting completely out of control.

Resistance training is good for me as well and this reminds me that I need to get back to it. I am walking a 1/2 hour a day on hilly roads; getting ready to up that back to 1 hour. I need to get back to resistance training too. I stopped going to the gym while my wife was seriously ill last year and the expense is something I don't need, but I can do it here at home too.

Ralph

Well maybe I should try the brazil nuts; I always like to have cashews, but I cannot eat too many.

I love beans, but we don't have them too often so I cannot comment.

Beef, I wish grass fed, but I also supplement my Omega 3 with Krill Oil two tabs per day.

Fish, chicken and eggs. I eat 2-3 eggs each morning. No my cholesterol is not an issue any more. I take 1000mg of niacin and 2 baby aspirin each day and my numbers are now 134 overall with hdl around 60; I have always had good hdl and overall numbers below 200.

Cheese yes milk very limited; avoiding carbs but I do love milk.

Don't know about soy products.

The amounts sound about right 15-20%. We end up high fat and about 20-30% carbs. This is what I have been journaling. When you say not efficient I have always understood it took more effort for the body to convert protein to "energy" thus the goodness of low carb higher protein higher fat regimens help with weight control and loss.