Almost all diabetic patients know that the first thing to control blood sugar is to control the diet, but how to control the diet is always confusing and confusing, and there seems to be little confidence and perseverance in the need for long-term or even lifelong control. Whenever I go to the doctor with my blood glucose report, the answer I get is either “good, you should keep your mouth shut lately, your diet is under control” or “look at your blood glucose is high again, did you not pay attention to control your diet again”. We all know that diet control is important, but it is human nature to eat and enjoy food, so how can diabetics enjoy food without interfering with metabolic control? This question has always troubled most people. According to the traditional diet control theory, the dietary control for diabetic patients is mainly to control the overall calorie intake without restricting various food groups, and there is also the view that “eating less and more” can reduce the workload on the pancreas. From this theory, it means that diabetic patients can actually eat any food, but each food should be controlled between certain recommended intakes, and meals can also be divided, that is, from eating three meals a day to four or even five or six meals, but each meal must meet the overall calorie control needs of the day, and not eat very full. Based on such theories and doctrines, many tools have evolved to facilitate patients’ self-diet management, such as “caloric equivalence”, “palm rule” and “glycemic index”. However, although the theories have been effectively implemented, many patients still find it inconvenient to operate and difficult to adhere to daily in their daily lives. So how should we control our diet? Is the above mentioned method right or wrong? In fact, for obese type 2 diabetes, the problem is not that complicated. The first thing we need to make clear is that type 2 diabetes is often not caused by an absolute lack of insulin, but by the insulin insensitivity due to various reasons in the environment and in the body, which cannot play such an effective role in lowering sugar. This is like a knife for chopping meat, the blade is not sharp and blunt, then naturally chopping meat is not so sharp. Among these causes of insulin insensitivity, a large part is due to the accumulation of body fat, body obesity. Therefore, for type 2 diabetes, especially obese type 2 diabetes patients, weight control, preferably to reduce the body fat control program, both for blood sugar, and for the life of the patient is beneficial. The reason why fat people are fat is inevitably that they eat more and move less, so we have the impression that weight loss is either emphasized by eating less or geared towards exercise. But the actual situation is that the patient endures the pain of eating less and moving more without achieving the purpose of weight loss, which is also teased by many patients as “fat even drinking the northwest wind”. So is weight loss control really that tedious and painful? In fact, there are now some studies show that we can take care of the need for weight loss control through a variation of the program, but also for the patient is not so painful, so why not do it? Approach one: reduce the frequency of eating. We have the impression that three meals a day seems to be born, but you know that in ancient times, our ancestors were not as comfortable as we are now, basically two meals a day or even one meal. Some studies have shown that changing from three meals a day to two meals a day with a fixed total calorie count can effectively control weight gain and bring the benefits of lower blood sugar. The general practice is to reduce the dinner and gradually to not eat dinner, so as to achieve the results of the morning and afternoon two meals a day, interested diabetics may wish to try. Approach two: change the structure of the diet. We have always heard the diet to be balanced, nutrition to be comprehensive sermons, but who would have thought that there is a study found that by reducing the amount of carbohydrates in the diet, that is, the amount of staple foods, and ultimately achieve the effect of weight loss and sugar control? This does exist, but such a diet program is currently considered only recommended for short-term intermittent, after all, we rely on a full and balanced range of nutrients in food. Approach three: short-term abstinence treatment, or what is scientifically known as “very low-calorie diet”. I believe some of you should have heard of this, it is an ancient Chinese concept that you can prolong your life by fasting. Modern science has proven through experiments that a short-term intermittent very low-calorie diet can achieve the same weight loss and sugar control effect as a long-term low-calorie diet. However, it is important to remind diabetics that there is a risk of mishandling such a short term diet, so it is recommended that patients be under the care of a medical professional. Approach 4: extend the eating time. We can usually observe a phenomenon, that is, the general fat people although each time the amount of food is not much, but eat very fast. Therefore, some scientists have designed such experiments, by artificially slowing down the speed of each meal fat people eat, found that this can also play a role in weight loss and sugar control. If you are interested in diabetes, you can also try the “chew each mouthful of rice 20 times before swallowing” method. All of the above are some of the new methods of diet control recently, and all of them have some effect on obese type 2 diabetes. Lastly, I would like to send you a dietary rhyme for your convenience and memory: “Eat slowly, try two meals a day, have a hearty breakfast and a simple dinner, and benefit from a short-term diet”.