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| Foods to Avoid |   You should avoid sugar, artificial sweeteners and honey. Nevertheless, you may take sweetener like stevia. It is difficult to exclude sugar from your diet at-once. The best way is to reduce sugar in your diet gradually.
Do not eat sweets and chocolates. If you are in a party and want to take some chocolate, then it might be as well to take Continental dark chocolate with at-least 70% or more cocoa solids. You should also avoid chocolates where sugar is on the first place of the ingredient list.
You should avoid foods containing ingredients that end in (ol) or (ose) as these are mainly different forms of carbohydrates like fructose, glucose, dextrose.
Stop eating grains such as cakes, biscuits, pies, tarts, breakfast cereals, rye, wheat, barley, corn, rice, bread, pasta, pastry.
Avoid vegetables which contain larger amount of starch and carbohydrates like potatoes, carrots, peas, beans, parsnips, and beet.
Avoid sweet fruits like water melon, mangoes, banana, Chikoos(Pakistani), jackfruit, grapes, Strawberry, Sugarcane.
As for milk, you may take it but in small quantity. But you should avoid fat yogurts and cheese. Also be careful not to drink too much coffee or tea and add only as much sugar as in needed for taste.
Don’t even think about commercially packaged foods like TV dinners, especially “lean” or “light”, and snack foods, fast foods.
Don’t drink fresh fruit juices as these are highly filled with carbohydrates. If you like fruit juices you may dilute one part of juice with 3 or 4 parts of water.
You should always avoid saturated fats like fatty meat, full fat dairy products, butter, and lard. Try to use unsaturated fats like olive oil, corn oil, canula oil, sunflower oil,soya oil. Besides, you should avoid cottage cheese as it has a high carbohydrate content and very little fat.
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