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(Again I know nothing about diabetes, but I do know a thing or two about weight-loss.)
It is unfortunate that today, discussion of proper diet and esp weight-loss programs often takes on a tone like politics, or even like religious proselytizing.

In offering the following factoid, I intend NONE of the above. It is just a tidbit of information.

Cooking something in water, in a non-stick pan (limited oil) or conventional pan-frying each add or subtract a different number of calories to food. For that reason the USDA guidelines are called guidelines and list the calories before cooking.

That decision by the USDA can seem to advocate we eat less meat.
A slice of bacon, for example contains

  • 40-plus calories per slice before cooking but only
  • 20 calories after cooking.
    The only way you could consume all the calories listed on the package is if you lick the pan, lick the stove and lick the residue off your range hood.
    Otherwise five slices of crisp-cooked bacon has about the same number of calories as an apple (95)

A 4-ounce (80%) hamburger contains

  • 375 calories before cooking
  • about 195 calories after cooking.
    (you can sometimes consume more calories by eating the fancy bun.)

But as you can see even though the label seems to advocate we eat less meat, an anti-meat diet is not always a good path to weight loss. If that is the one you can stick to, GOOD. But if you are ore the carnivore type, do not be accidentally deceived there is hope.

I wish you well.

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