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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5566426" data-attributes="member: 19675">My issue isn't diabetes- I have certain food allergies, but more importantly, I'm the most sodium dependent hypertensive my previous MD had ever seen in 40 years of practice. But the survival skills you need are essentially the same for whatever ingredient you need to minimize or eliminate from your diet: 1) Read your food labels like your life depended on it...because it does.2) Try to eat more fresh/frozen and minimally processed foods3) Control your portion size4) Learn how to cook, and do so often(FWIW, #3 is my personal Waterloo.)With sugars, try to buy more bakery-fresh breads as opposed to the stuff on your grocer's shelves.  Generally speaking, it will be lower in sugars and higher in fiber, especially if you go to a free-standing bakery.For candies & sweets, if you must indulge, limit your acceptable types.  Instead of buying all the candies you like, buy your 1-3 favorites only.  Look at more expensive, high quality versions of them (from boutique chocolatiers, for instance) to get candies that have a more intense flavor- you may eat less of it.Don't bring sweets home.  Make desserts & sweet snacks something you consume only outside of the house.  That way, you won't be as able to get your hands on them late at night, or whenever the snack-bug strikes.</blockquote>