Are you diabetic? If so come in!

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Last monday I started my no sugar diet, basically following sugar buster's diet plan. I take in WAY too much sugar and im just gaining too much weight, and not to mention it could push me into diabetes. I was wanting to know what things that diabetic's eat in place of sugar to help them out on the sugar cravings. I know there are certain things like pancake syrup for diabetics and such, but which of all of these type of products tastes the best or at least is edible I would especially like to hear about the best tasting ice cream with no sugar or very low sugar.


Cheers

 

[nk4e]

Look for "Sugar-free" Items, cut back on some things and sometimes just replace it. Instead of soda just drink water.

 

[Mrs. Famine]

Do not buy items which are marketed as suitable for diabetics, these contain masses of fat. If you're gaining weight then as well as watching your sugar intake, you need to watch your fat intake as well.

Swap Coke for Diet Coke (etc). Look for things with no added sugar. You'll be amazed what difference can be made by drinking no added sugar or diet versions of drinks! Take sweeteners in your coffee/tea. Change your milk from full fat to semi-skimmed (or semi-skimmed to skimmed) as milk contains sugar in the form of lactose. Be careful with fruit juices - fructose is also a sugar, albeit one of the "good" ones

 

[Omnis]

You don't just catch diabetes. Have you had any blood tests that would indicate that you are diabetic or pre-diabetic? You just need to diet correctly. The best thing you could do is to consume complex carbs instead of simple sugars, and spread out your meals so that you're eating a little something every three hours to keep your insulin levels from spiking after big, infrequent meals.

 

[niky]

You can actually get diabetes if you're way overweight... but being overweight isn't an automatic diabetic ticket... you'll need to have some genetic predisposition to getting it, at least.

Living without sugar or with minimal sugar in your diet is ridiculously... ridiculously easy. I'm diabetic and I haven't had to have a single shot of insulin in five years (I check regularly and go to my doctor every six months). I got it by working nearly 24/7 one summer and drinking way too much Coke as a means of rehydration. After losing weight and going on a no-sugar diet, I was able to kick insulin after a month, and I'm now up to the point where my sugar will only spike if I eat a honking big steakhouse meal or down a pint of ice cream.

However, I do have a family history of diabetes... so one day, it will get worse. Until then, though... I enjoy being as healthy as I can be.

The only sweets I have are diet sodas (which I'm now limiting because too much soda is bad for you...) and the occassional sugar-free dessert or ice cream (once a week or so).

I've gotten to the point where I actually get a queasy stomach if I eat something dripping with refined sugar. Seriously... the stuff is disgusting.

You don't need so much sweet in your diet. Just a little taste of sweetener now and then is enough... the new ones are so good that you don't think about it, anymore... many have no aftertaste at all... but they cost like hell. I suggest you save them as treats on days when you have been exceptionally good.

 

[Jay]

A few years ago I used to consume sugar products like the world was coming to an end, after enough warnings from family I decided to stop. Now I have very little sugar intake and never realised how much I never needed it. I thought maybe I would have craving for it but that didn't happen.
I just hope the years of heavy sugar intake didn't do any permenant damage that will crop up later in life.

 

[breakpoint]

Maybe I wasn't as clear as I meant to be on here. I know what to eat, and how to eat properly etc. I have stopped drinking all drinks, diet or not, I just cut all of them out. I look at sugar content and I also have cut back around 60 percent of other carbs also. All I drink mainly now is water, and it seems with every day I drink more and more water the more I am craving water. Im not looking for ways to cut my sugar because im capable of making those decisions on what to cut and what to include, thats the easy part. What I was looking for was someone who has had things that are very low sugar or no sugar that could comment on the taste of such product. Artificial sweeteners are so horrible, with splenda being the less of all the evils I have tried so I am just staying away from those. I even get plain cereal and oats so I know for sure how much sugar will go in it if any, all depends on what I have eaten that day and how much sugar had been taken in already.

I even started taking my coffee straight up black in my sugar hating quest, and thats major because before I would have around 6 spoons of sugar and about half of that in milk. Since I have started lifting again I have also started back on 1 to 2 grams of protein per body pound. When I was lifting a few years ago I was taking in around 8K calories a day, and nope I wasn't fat. Steroids did help out on that tour though, this time around im not doing any cycles, just lifting.

 

[niky]

The new additives, isomalt and maltodextrin, are less horrible than most... but not knowing your local markets, I wouldn't know what products are available to you.

 

[breakpoint]

The new additives, isomalt and maltodextrin, are less horrible than most... but not knowing your local markets, I wouldn't know what products are available to you.

I will look around in the groceries for those additives and see if anything around here has them:tup: Basically if its not carried at wal-mart then usually other stores won't have it either. One grocery here has shark meat and thats about as off from norm as you can get here really, sad. I like all types of food and I have to order raw spices and such just to make dishes I like. Like recently I ordered some tahini so I could make some proper hummus. There are a ton of asian and mexican markets but thats about it.

 

[niky]

Hummus is easy... beans and oil...

Putting variety in your diet is a good way to keep yourself from missing sugar... lots of good asian dishes that require no sugar... (except maybe for Korean and some Chinese)...

We made hummus a few months ago... going through Italian (yeah, not Asian...) now... did Shabu-Shabu the other week...

Being married is fun.

 

[Mrs. Famine]

breakpoint: read your first post, then read your second one. You directly contradicted yourself!

Apologies for offering you healthy eating tips. I assumed that's what you were after

 

[breakpoint]

breakpoint: read your first post, then read your second one. You directly contradicted yourself!

Apologies for offering you healthy eating tips. I assumed that's what you were after

Don't take anything I said the wrong way mate, I appreciate advice but I was just wanting to know about any type of sweets or desert type items that have very low sugar or no sugar. Thats why in my second post I said I guess I wasn't clear enough on advice I was looking for. Not sure how I contradicted myself asking about sugar alternatives I know all about healthy eating and such because I have a long history of body building and such, what I am not educated on is how certain sugar alternative items taste and nothing is worse than buying something and not being able to eat it because its so awful you can't stomach it. That happened to me once with some whey protein, the most god awful stuff I have ever tasted

 

[niky]

Milford ain't a mate... at least not your mate... she's someone else's.

I understand how you feel. When I first went sugarless, I was desperate for something to fill the void. Even now I stop and try alternatives... but thsoe adventures are getting less and less frequent... you just learn to live with it, like I said.

But then, there's no harm in shopping around...

 

[nk4e]

Is it me or alot of Filipino's tend to have high blood pressure and diabetes?

 

[niky]

It's all the pork. Anthony Bourdais (the chef) has declared Filipino roast pig the best in the world... and our entire culture revolves around the eating of pork and pork dishes.

My favorite dish when we moved here was pork sinigang... a sour soup with lots of pork cuts... dripping in fat... used to eat the wedges of fat, actually...

Yes... my family is full of diabetics...

 

[nk4e]

I just miss filipino food...I should ask my mom to tell me how to cook something.

 

[Omnis]

That happened to me once with some whey protein, the most god awful stuff I have ever tasted

Whey protein doesn't taste like anything. It's the crappy mix you bought. There are some good-tasting shake mixes out there. Always get little sample-sized stuff or flavor variety packs before you buy any kind of anything.

I just miss filipino food...I should ask my mom to tell me how to come something.

Oh boy.

 

[breakpoint]

Whey protein doesn't taste like anything. It's the crappy mix you bought. There are some good-tasting shake mixes out there. Always get little sample-sized stuff or flavor variety packs before you buy any kind of anything.

I usually get strawberry flavored whey and mix it only with milk, that day I decided to try a different brand that was chocolate and it was just god awful Now I just stick with my strawberry cell tech, add a 1/4 of a banana and a tad of plain yogurt and it makes a pretty good smoothie too. I can't do any of the whey with water no matter what brand, just horrible. I stick with skim milk to make sure it taste fairly good.


I eat a ton of pork, pork is my main meat source with chicken being a close second. Always grilled/broiled and never fried, I don't fry anything.

 

[Mrs. Famine]

breakpoint: I offered advice the way I do it best. For you to then essentially declare you're actually an expert and that you don't need healthy advice p'd me off somewhat. FYI, I'm a trained nurse.

 

[Jay]

FYI, I'm a trained nurse.

Then shouldn't you be used to people/patients acting like they know better?


(my grandfather was really hard on nurses for some reason, we had to apologise for him all the time )

 

[breakpoint]

breakpoint: I offered advice the way I do it best. For you to then essentially declare you're actually an expert and that you don't need healthy advice p'd me off somewhat. FYI, I'm a trained nurse.

I didn't mean it that way at all, I was just saying I was looking for advice on sugar subs or advice on things that would help put off my sugar cravings. Thats all I was trying to say. By me saying that I don't need tips on eating healthy just means that, its not that I don't appreciate tips or help its just I don't need it in that area, cutting sugar out of my diet is new to me so thats what I was looking for advice on. I didn't " declare I'm actually an expert", I just spent 7 years in body building and I know what my body likes and uses and what it doesn't. And if you were wondering then why was your calorie intake so high then, its because I was doing cycles of steroids and that many calories was needed for my building.


If you have anything in the way of helping keep sugar cravings off or replacing sugar then I will take that advice and try it and see how it works out for me. I have been trying carrots lately, they seem to help, especially if I cook them in a bit of balsamic vinegar. I just want to have a little more variety in my diet in the sugar tasting non sugar area:tup:

 

[Mrs. Famine]

As I mentioned previously, milk and fruit both contain sugars but they're "good" sugars. Fructose is probably one of the best you can have, so if you're craving something sweet, then have an apple, an orange, a banana, some strawberries etc. Many "diet" foods like biscuits etc are lower in fat and sugar is replaced with fructose and sweeteners. Look for "low GI" foods - a lower glycaemic index means that the food will be burned less quickly and it'll keep your cravings under control a little longer. Hth.

 

[breakpoint]

As I mentioned previously, milk and fruit both contain sugars but they're "good" sugars. Fructose is probably one of the best you can have, so if you're craving something sweet, then have an apple, an orange, a banana, some strawberries etc. Many "diet" foods like biscuits etc are lower in fat and sugar is replaced with fructose and sweeteners. Look for "low GI" foods - a lower glycaemic index means that the food will be burned less quickly and it'll keep your cravings under control a little longer. Hth.

Thanks, I really love bananas but the sugar buster diet guidelines say to stay away from them, not sure why though? I always thought that they were fairly nutritious. When I go to the grocery this week I will look for some low GI foods, that sounds like a good idea:tup: I drink around 133 ounces of milk every two days ( if we have it ), I do at least drink skim milk and that is also including what I use to mix with my whey.