Lol yeah I know but just want to see by how much god it's not fair having to give up the only thing you like for a treat. I stopped eating biscuits & cakes I ate a few biscuits a day but thought 1 small bar of chocolate might be ok but I guess I'm kidding myself :-(
If you want to know if you're kidding yourself or not, even without a meter you can gather some fairly accurate information on what to eat or avoid, by looking at the food labels on packaging - check for total carbs rather than the more prominent sugar figures - and work out how many carbs you would be eating in a given size portion. For fruit and veggies and non-packaged food you need to do a little more work, but there is a lot of this sort of data on-line for you to search out.
So back to chocolate: for example I eat a very low carbohydrate diet, but can still manage to include a piece of chocolate a day if I want to. My 85% Lindt dark chocolate is (very conveniently!
) a 100 gram bar divided into ten pieces; there are 19 grams of carbs in the whole bar, so it works out at just under 2 carbs per piece, which is not likely to do much harm. If you're worried still, eat a piece as part of you meal, and those 2 carbs will be all mixed up with the protein and fats you have eaten as well, and will have less impact than eating it on its own.
When you've got yourself a little more settled, you can go looking for low carb treats cakes, cookies, cheesecake, and sweets, which generally include "good for you" ingredients like butter, coconut oil, eggs, flaxseed , ground almonds and other nuts. So you can scoff to your heart's content without upsetting your glucose levels or feeling guilty! Nuts in their own right can be slightly sweet, but you can add some (non sugar) sweetener to your baking - you'll need to find one that you find OK to use. I prefer a natural one such as stevia, Unsweetened nut butters can be a nice sweetish snack; I like Meridian almond butter, which is made purely of almonds and is sweet in it's own right. Whole Earth peanut butter is another sugar free one I sometimes eat a small spoonful of as a "treat".
So you see there's hope for you yet...
Robbity