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- Type of diabetes
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- Diet only
Hello Everybody, There seems to be quite a lot of chat about sweeteners at the moment, which is best, can they raise your sugar levels etc. My way of dealing with that question was simply to go cold turkey. When I was diagnosed I just gave up all sugar added type foods and refused to use any sweeteners at all. The first couple of weeks required a lot of will power but I very quickly lost my sweet tooth and now, I no more want to eat cakes, biscuits, puddings etc than I want to eat worms. It also means you're not eating all the other carbs that go into those foods. I do still have the very occasional piece of cake [a very thin sliver minus any icing] if it's one of the Grandchildren's birthdays for instance but that only amounts to about one normal slice, in total, for the whole year. I also allow myself the odd, one scoop, of ice cream. It saves all that fighting with yourself about having just one more biscuit and so on once the first couple of weeks are over and the craving has gone.