As some know, I’m a struggling type 2 diabetic that was on a roller coaster ride with my a1c levels. I was dangerously high a couple times and had to buckle down.
I am a a nondenominational eater, I like food, all kinds…especially the delicious stuff that I’m just not supposed to eat or, at least, have only an extremely tiny portion…just enough to stink up your breath and piss you off.
Baked goods is probably the worst for me…cakes, pies…high sugar/carb delicious desserts.
In my readings,~15 years ago, a professional dietician that catered to professional bodybuilders and athletes would actually prescribe diet sodas to his clients. I recall that he would allow one a day to stave off the sweet cravings. Kind of like the “break glass in case of emergency” things. I didn’t think much of it back then beings I really didn’t have diet “problems” and diabetes wasn’t on the radar screen except for the cursory warnings from my doc about my blood labs.
Fast forward to eight years ago when I was officially declared a type 2 diabetic. I did what most do…I rode the pendulum the other way…buckled down and immediately went on a completely unsustainable diet to drop my blood sugar. It worked, my a1c plummeted for 3 lab reports in a row (18 months)…but I was miserable. I started experimenting (cheating) and my blood sugar was up and down, the ups put me in a dangerous place.
I was never a big soda drinker, like one or two a year. The only carbonated beverages I drank was beer and lots of it. I didn’t even drink it with my liquor…triple beam neat with a beer back…thank you.
In the last year or so, I’ve started keeping diet pepsi and diet dr pepper around the house. I call it chemical water. It satiates me when I get that craving for something sweet. They basically have zero everything except chemicals and the carbonation fills me up. I wouldn’t recommend more than one a day due to all the nasty chemicals in it. Probably not good for the human body. Like everything else, moderation is the key.
I am a a nondenominational eater, I like food, all kinds…especially the delicious stuff that I’m just not supposed to eat or, at least, have only an extremely tiny portion…just enough to stink up your breath and piss you off.
Baked goods is probably the worst for me…cakes, pies…high sugar/carb delicious desserts.
In my readings,~15 years ago, a professional dietician that catered to professional bodybuilders and athletes would actually prescribe diet sodas to his clients. I recall that he would allow one a day to stave off the sweet cravings. Kind of like the “break glass in case of emergency” things. I didn’t think much of it back then beings I really didn’t have diet “problems” and diabetes wasn’t on the radar screen except for the cursory warnings from my doc about my blood labs.
Fast forward to eight years ago when I was officially declared a type 2 diabetic. I did what most do…I rode the pendulum the other way…buckled down and immediately went on a completely unsustainable diet to drop my blood sugar. It worked, my a1c plummeted for 3 lab reports in a row (18 months)…but I was miserable. I started experimenting (cheating) and my blood sugar was up and down, the ups put me in a dangerous place.
I was never a big soda drinker, like one or two a year. The only carbonated beverages I drank was beer and lots of it. I didn’t even drink it with my liquor…triple beam neat with a beer back…thank you.
In the last year or so, I’ve started keeping diet pepsi and diet dr pepper around the house. I call it chemical water. It satiates me when I get that craving for something sweet. They basically have zero everything except chemicals and the carbonation fills me up. I wouldn’t recommend more than one a day due to all the nasty chemicals in it. Probably not good for the human body. Like everything else, moderation is the key.
