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A Salutary Lesson this Festive Season!

Rachox

Rachox

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Type of diabetes
I reversed my Type 2
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I met some friends for a Christmas drink at lunchtime, I don’t drink alcohol so ordered a Pepsi Max. My request got lost in translation as one barman asked another in a foreign language to get my order. I suspected nothing as I sipped my drink which with two slices of lemon and loads of ice put me off the scent that it was infact standard sugary Pepsi. I am so annoyed with myself as I am usually so careful to double check I have been served the correct drink or I order a bottle. Anyway, I’ll live, lesson learned!
Here’s what my Libre said, I felt no ill effects and but for the Libre high glucose alarm going off I’d be non the wiser.

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It happens sometimes.......
When I order coffee(cheap machine coffee), I forget to mention "sugarless". I realise while drinking that it has sugar and so I end up throwing the coffee after taking a sip or two.
The expensive restaurants serve sugar sachets separately....so no problem there...
 
Lamont D said:
When cola drinks are syphoned in pubs, the syrup used along with the soda, is full of sugar. The diet coke has less sugar values, but it is not sugar free. It is only the taste is different.

Shocking!
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Wow I never knew that.
It really is a con, that diet pump drinks have lots of toxic sugar and pubs, like shops etc, should have the sugar values for drinks on display for public viewing, especially the 'diet drink' range.
Customers have to be right on the ball, or risk the consequences...........
 
Lamont D said:
When cola drinks are syphoned in pubs, the syrup used along with the soda, is full of sugar. The diet coke has less sugar values, but it is not sugar free. It is only the taste is different.

Shocking!
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I’ve never had this problem with draught diet drinks before. Do you have a reference for this @Lamont D please?
 
Ashybang said:
Wow I never knew that.
It really is a con, that diet pump drinks have lots of toxic sugar and pubs, like shops etc, should have the sugar values for drinks on display for public viewing, especially the 'diet drink' range.
Customers have to be right on the ball, or risk the consequences...........
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Always ask for bottles!
Also, if in a pub, the food is prepared elsewhere and the likes of meats and salads have dressings, rubs or coatings that are sugars.
Always ask how your food is prepared. Ask the chef, to freshly cook your food without using veg or cooking oils.
Vegan options can be a minefield.
 
Rachox said:
I’ve never had this problem with draught diet drinks before. Do you have a reference for this @Lamont D please?
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Not as such, but I used to change the feeds on the pumps from the cellar.

And I couldn't believe what I was reading on the cartons.
 
Lamont D said:
Not as such, but I used to change the feeds on the pumps from the cellar.

And I couldn't believe what I was reading on the cartons.
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I assume that’s not the case anymore then, as I say they don’t normally cause me a problem.

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Rachox said:
Did my own Googling, can’t see sugar listed here!

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I guess so.
I can't remember which cola it was, but since reading that back then, I have always insisted on a bottle.
The calorie levels are interesting.
Especially if you're on a calorie controlled diet!!!!
 
I would agree with always asking for bottle rather than any diet soda in a pub. That way you can check the nutrition value. Though I was once caught out asking for sugar free tonic water, and was served Fevertree diet tonic instead. Which was poured from a bottle by the barman. He argued with me that it was diet tonic and couldn’t understand that it was not sugar free. The drink and the barman left me with a banging headache.
 
Pipp said:
I would agree with always asking for bottle rather than any diet soda in a pub. That way you can check the nutrition value. Though I was once caught out asking for sugar free tonic water, and was served Fevertree diet tonic instead. Which was poured from a bottle by the barman. He argued with me that it was diet tonic and couldn’t understand that it was not sugar free. The drink and the barman left me with a banging headache.
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Had the same happen to me some years ago. Had an email conversation about it with Fevertree. I felt the diet title was exceptionally misleading. Both to employee and customer. They were quite abrupt about it, saying to put artificial sweeteners in would compromise their ethos of natural. Wasn’t very natural for me up in the night injecting extra insulin. Just drink soda water and a slice of lime these days.
 
I always stick to water or if it’s cold a pot of tea or a black coffee, I’ve asked for diet tonic before & been given a bottle of fevertree, too many carbs in there, I went back & asked for water.
If eating out I stick to a roast or steak & salad (without dressing)
Nando’s for me is the best place to eat in the week
 
I was out for lunch with a T1 friend . She drank a small wine but for her second drink, produced a low sugar can from her bag. It was a brand she knew and trusted. As she said to me, "if I could trust low sugar drinks when out I'd order them, but I've had too many that are impossible to dose for"

Quite often these days I order a tea or a coffee in a pub instead of a soft drink
 
MrsA2 said:
I was out for lunch with a T1 friend . She drank a small wine but for her second drink, produced a low sugar can from her bag. It was a brand she knew and trusted. As she said to me, "if I could trust low sugar drinks when out I'd order them, but I've had too many that are impossible to dose for"

Quite often these days I order a tea or a coffee in a pub instead of a soft drink
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