Found this site while searching for a diabetic weight loss diet. It has some handy pointers and food groupings for a 1600 Calorie Diabetic Diet Plan

You are overweight for the most simple of reasons -- because you're eating the wrong foods, the wrong types of calories per meal, and you're also eating meals in the wrong patterns each day.

Recent studies from from the ongoing Framingham Nutrition reported that women who ate almost 400 fewer daily calories but chose the least nutritious foods had a 2 1/2 times higher risk of abdominal obesity than those who ate that much more but made better choices.

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Don't forget: When you reduce high of total fat in your food, you are likely to decrease the calories and bad it in your diet.

The phrase negative calorie food is used to refer to foods that require more energy to digest than they provide nutritionally. Although no food can actually have negative calories, some foods provide extremely few. If these foods require more energy than they provide to digest, the effect of consuming them results in a net energy loss.Low nutrient, high cellulose foods like celery are generally agreed to consume slightly more energy to digest than they provide nutritionally. These foods may be consumed within a weight-loss diet to potentially relieve the feeling of hunger without contributing to total caloric intake. Limiting a diet to only these foods could result in malnutrition.There are claims that some foods require more energy than others to digest, but there is currently no evidence to support this. Many vegetables and fruits promoted as "negative calorie" contain more calories than are consumed in digestion, but they may have a low amount of calories relative to the amount of satiation they provide. References^ http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/celery.asp