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Tell him to try to cut his carb intake. By carbs I mean avoid white flour (tell him to eat whole grain breads if he has to eat bread. Tell him to always check the carb amounts and get the one with the lowest carbs), regular pasta (tell him to try Dreamfields pasta it's delicious and tastes like regular pasta), white potatoes (try a small sweet potatoe instead), corn is a big no no, also makes sure he cuts sugar completely until its under control then he can limit it to maybe once a month under doctors orders of course. There are plenty of sugar free candies and icecream out there (but make sure you check the carbs because sugar free doesn't always mean low carb). Carbs are bad because they turn to sugar and keep your sugar levels higher for a longer period of time than regular sugar does. Breyers makes a low carb no sugar Heavenly Hash ice cream that is great. No fruit juices because they use too much fruit to make the juice. Tell him to try 1 piece of fruit instead of juice. Avoid watermellon (high sugar), grapes and pineapple are to be avoided. Those fruits are high in sugar. Most fast food including pizza is a no no because of the carb content. Its tough at first but the results are usually worth it. Peanuts are good snacks. Protein of course is good but watch the fat. MOST OF ALL EXERCISE! Walking is the easiest, and the best overall exercise and it doesn't cause any problems with your knees or ankles.

Walking is the easiest, and the best overall exercise and it doesn't cause any problems with your knees or ankles.

Walking is a great wait to go. As an example, even walking slowly is a third of the calories of climbing stairs. So if you can do stair steppers for 20 minutes, just walk for an hour instead. Or walk fast for 45 minutes.

Tell him to try to cut his carb intake. By carbs I mean avoid white flour (tell him to eat whole grain breads if he has to eat bread. Tell him to always check the carb amounts and get the one with the lowest carbs), regular pasta (tell him to try Dreamfields pasta it's delicious and tastes like regular pasta), white potatoes (try a small sweet potatoe instead), corn is a big no no, also makes sure he cuts sugar completely until its under control then he can limit it to maybe once a month under doctors orders of course. There are plenty of sugar free candies and icecream out there (but make sure you check the carbs because sugar free doesn't always mean low carb). Carbs are bad because they turn to sugar and keep your sugar levels higher for a longer period of time than regular sugar does. Breyers makes a low carb no sugar Heavenly Hash ice cream that is great. No fruit juices because they use too much fruit to make the juice. Tell him to try 1 piece of fruit instead of juice. Avoid watermellon (high sugar), grapes and pineapple are to be avoided. Those fruits are high in sugar. Most fast food including pizza is a no no because of the carb content. Its tough at first but the results are usually worth it. Peanuts are good snacks. Protein of course is good but watch the fat. MOST OF ALL EXERCISE! Walking is the easiest, and the best overall exercise and it doesn't cause any problems with your knees or ankles.

Thanks, areafiftyone!

Maybe you, and others here, can help with this dieting/health issue: Our family, both sides (including in-laws) has a high ratio of women to men. So, over time, and before my brother's diabetes was diagnosed, we (female "we") put hard and soft pressure on him to get his weight under control. His wife cooked from Sugar Busters and made a lot of healthy salads, etc. I sent health & diet emails I'd come across to everyone on my family list, although everyone (probably my brother, too) knew who the emails were really meant for.

In retrospect, I can see where we could be "perceived" as a bunch of nags....cause we were! We were relentless and no one knows how to make it up to him.

Now that he has to take diabetes medication, we're walking on eggshells around him so we don't segue into "I told you so" mode. Oh, we are a lovely bunch of hags, aren't we?

And, its not like we don't have issues ourselves, LOL!!!

"You see the mote which is in your brother's eye; but you do not see the beam which is in your own eye. When you cast out the beam from your own eye, then you will see (clearly) to cast out the mote from your brother's eye.

How do you make up for nagging someone over their weight, especially now that he is diabetic.

I've thought about signing up his email address with something that comes out daily as a reminder - like Denise Austin's daily emails - but I think it would have to be a male-oriented health site because I think he has shut out our nagging, haggish female voices on any topic - and rightfully so - better than the BOSE QuietComfort2 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphone.

Others have tried to involve him in light exercising like walking but even that is tough for him because he is so large he starts to have breathing problems. So, should we just lay low and leave him alone and take care of our own "motes" for a while, or should we somehow help him in his health journey?

TIA!

Our "women folk" are not usually so naggy, but everyone loves my brother so much and we see what bad choices have done to his health...