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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 1820113" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I wish I could give you a more positive experience, but it was a very sad day when I discovered that my favourite sweet atkins bars spiked me (my fave being the nut caramel bar, and second fave chocolate coconut). (I was a bounty bar and pinky - caramel and marshmallow - bar and a nut nougat chocolate bar fan back in pre diagnosis days...). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The only thing you can do is 'eat and meter' really, to find out if and how those sugar substitutes and so on affect you and your blood glucose regulation. I did not go down <em>not </em>fighting! I checked my blood glucose, ah, more than once, hoping desperately that the atkins nut caramel bar really wasn't to blame for my 8.0 or whatever reading, but alas, it came up spiked every time. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Sugar substitutes, as in the array of them, seem to affect different people in different ways. There really is no substitute for checking it out on your metre. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I am very happy that stevia works for me, and so bake my own stevia sweetened peppermint chocolate chip cookies. And bliss balls rolled in coconut also do the trick. (I have to make them myself though, more is the pity. But I am hoping an up-side of the current diabetes epidemic in the wings will be small-factory made low-carb stevia sweetened goodies will be available. There has to be something positive about the situation?)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I wish you the best of luck when you eat and meter! (Because that nut caramel bar is suuuuuurrre good! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite37" alt=":happy:" title="Happy :happy:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":happy:" />.)</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 1820113, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]I wish I could give you a more positive experience, but it was a very sad day when I discovered that my favourite sweet atkins bars spiked me (my fave being the nut caramel bar, and second fave chocolate coconut). (I was a bounty bar and pinky - caramel and marshmallow - bar and a nut nougat chocolate bar fan back in pre diagnosis days...). The only thing you can do is 'eat and meter' really, to find out if and how those sugar substitutes and so on affect you and your blood glucose regulation. I did not go down [I]not [/I]fighting! I checked my blood glucose, ah, more than once, hoping desperately that the atkins nut caramel bar really wasn't to blame for my 8.0 or whatever reading, but alas, it came up spiked every time. :(. Sugar substitutes, as in the array of them, seem to affect different people in different ways. There really is no substitute for checking it out on your metre. I am very happy that stevia works for me, and so bake my own stevia sweetened peppermint chocolate chip cookies. And bliss balls rolled in coconut also do the trick. (I have to make them myself though, more is the pity. But I am hoping an up-side of the current diabetes epidemic in the wings will be small-factory made low-carb stevia sweetened goodies will be available. There has to be something positive about the situation?) I wish you the best of luck when you eat and meter! (Because that nut caramel bar is suuuuuurrre good! :happy:.)[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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