The hardest thing she'll have to do is kick the sugar habit. It's like a drug, your body craves the stuff, and it gives you a "high."
In some ways it's worse than trying to get off of heroin. Walk into a Love's truck stop - they're the worst of the bunch for this and look around. Check out the food choices: nothing but junk food, and most if it has a healthy slug of sugar in it, including those fruit cups. About the only thing a type II diabetic can walk out of there with that won't make things worse is a cup of coffee or a bottle of water. You have to walk past all of what is essentially poison to do it, all the while your body is shouting for you to grab a moon pie.
I read an article last year on America's sugar habit. Because it's become an additive in prepared foods, the average American consumes
between 50 and 75 teaspoons of sugar every day. When I was a child, and Moms had to cook (and took pride in it,) they had a fit when you put a second teaspoon of sugar on your cereal in the morning. How can you not risk becoming a diabetic with a huge daily dose of that crap?
That doesn't include the stuff that your body turns into glucose. Starches, grains, highly refined carbs like pastas and bread, fruit sugars - all of this increases the effect of that sugar on your system. If you're going to reverse diabetes, you have to kick the sugar habit completely, and get the foods that your body readily converts into glucose out of your diet. A ketogenic diet forces your body to convert from burning sugar for fuel, to burning fats. Google "keto diet" or "ketogenic diet."
Basically it's what Adkins was getting at, but you have to limit the protein as well. Lots of high-quality fat calories, some protein and veggies. Good news though... bacon is back on the menu!
