It's my son's 6th birthday party on Saturday and he's going to have a chocolate birthday cake. I'd like to have a small piece with him, to be part of his celebrations. And I was wondering what was the best way to go about it...
I've been T2 diagnosed for about six or seven weeks now. I've changed my diet radically, lost a stone and four pounds and I regularly test in the 4s or 5s, so I feel quite stable at the moment. I don't eat any sugary stuff obviously - my sweet treats are strawberries. But now that I've got myself down to a decent level, and feel like maintaining it is going to be sustainable, I'd like to sneak in the odd treat here and there. Say a biscuit perhaps. Or a square of chocolate. But I don't know how to do it, in terms of timing, so I guess the birthday cake will be my first experiment.
So when you have a sweet treat, do you have it with a meal? Or two hours after a meal after you've spiked and then returned to your normal level? Do you make sure you do a sudden bout of exercise afterwards? How and when do you have your sweet treat, and what do you have?
Thank you.
I've been T2 diagnosed for about six or seven weeks now. I've changed my diet radically, lost a stone and four pounds and I regularly test in the 4s or 5s, so I feel quite stable at the moment. I don't eat any sugary stuff obviously - my sweet treats are strawberries. But now that I've got myself down to a decent level, and feel like maintaining it is going to be sustainable, I'd like to sneak in the odd treat here and there. Say a biscuit perhaps. Or a square of chocolate. But I don't know how to do it, in terms of timing, so I guess the birthday cake will be my first experiment.
So when you have a sweet treat, do you have it with a meal? Or two hours after a meal after you've spiked and then returned to your normal level? Do you make sure you do a sudden bout of exercise afterwards? How and when do you have your sweet treat, and what do you have?
Thank you.