I find substitution is the best trick for me - if I get the munchies, I've a range of substitute snacks at home which take the edge off and stop me having worse. I bake little cookies with almond/coconut flour to snack on at coffee/tea time (plenty recipes online), or have a handful of nuts, or pork scratchings, a chunk of cheese or a plain yoghurt, all of which are low carb and barely register on my BG levels, but they do take the edge off the appetite. I try and keep temptation out of the fridge and food cupboard, so I've got rid of all the sweetened biscuits, cakes etc, although a square of 85% dark chocolate after a meal is my treat of the day. And if all else fails, sugar free chewing gum is another quick fix.
My struggle at the moment is with eating out - what to order that isn't going to send BG up into the stratosphere for hours. Sometimes its difficult to tell from a description what's in a dish, and there is just so much added sugar and carbs in a lot of dishes, plus a lack of awareness from restaurant staff about the problem.
It’s in the afternoons I struggle and if I have to nip to the shop I find things jumping into my basket! If I stay off the sweet stuff for 2-3 days I get out of the habit. That’s why I love supermarket deliveries as I buy what I should and don’t have the temptation.
. Sensor change this morning & this one seems OK so far. The last one was consistently reading a least a mmol high so I had to rely to totally on Shuggah which I can calibrate. The nice folks at Abbott have sent a replacement, but very odd. Has anyone else had this sort of thing with Libre2?
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Happy Saturday morning. Have a nice day everyone.
