SepticTank
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
One thing I didn't expect when I started this journey was to have an issue with coffee.
I have drunk coffee since my late teens, when I lived in the UK my normal consumption of instant Nescafe was about 4.5l a day, taken black and strong. I cut back considerably when I moved to the US in 2015, mostly because instant is looked down upon and filter is a hassle compared with dumping a tablespoon of instant into a cup!
I'd rarely drink it at home, although I did keep a couple of jars of instant in the cupboards for when I got the urge (discovered after a short while that S.Americans drink instant so I could find Nescafe in the 'International' aisle of some supermarkets or at any tienda). I'd still drink coffee when going out as hot tea isn't too common and they don't like strong tea, generally speaking.
And now for the kicker, since cutting out gluten and high starch I noticed that I'd come back from my habitual Saturday morning breakfast joint and feel 'odd', I initially put it down to my choice of poor hygiene 'greasy Joe' type hangout - Waffle House for those in the know (and no, I've never eaten waffles at a Waffle House, breakfast should not be sweet...they serve the closest thing to a fry up that I can get round here). Then about a month ago I felt crud all day and nearly passed out in the garden, blood glucose was fine, blood pressure good too.
I started to wonder if it was my standard two cups of black coffee with my Waffle House breakfasts, so I ordered hot tea (if you don't specify 'hot' in the South you get the default 'iced') and had no issues. The following week, I figured that mebbe it was a glitch in the matrix so I thought I wonder what happens if I only have one cup of coffee - on the plus side I didn't feel like crud for the next 24 hours, this time I was back to my chipper self by evening!
Is this a thing for those of us trying to avoid gluten?
I have drunk coffee since my late teens, when I lived in the UK my normal consumption of instant Nescafe was about 4.5l a day, taken black and strong. I cut back considerably when I moved to the US in 2015, mostly because instant is looked down upon and filter is a hassle compared with dumping a tablespoon of instant into a cup!
I'd rarely drink it at home, although I did keep a couple of jars of instant in the cupboards for when I got the urge (discovered after a short while that S.Americans drink instant so I could find Nescafe in the 'International' aisle of some supermarkets or at any tienda). I'd still drink coffee when going out as hot tea isn't too common and they don't like strong tea, generally speaking.
And now for the kicker, since cutting out gluten and high starch I noticed that I'd come back from my habitual Saturday morning breakfast joint and feel 'odd', I initially put it down to my choice of poor hygiene 'greasy Joe' type hangout - Waffle House for those in the know (and no, I've never eaten waffles at a Waffle House, breakfast should not be sweet...they serve the closest thing to a fry up that I can get round here). Then about a month ago I felt crud all day and nearly passed out in the garden, blood glucose was fine, blood pressure good too.
I started to wonder if it was my standard two cups of black coffee with my Waffle House breakfasts, so I ordered hot tea (if you don't specify 'hot' in the South you get the default 'iced') and had no issues. The following week, I figured that mebbe it was a glitch in the matrix so I thought I wonder what happens if I only have one cup of coffee - on the plus side I didn't feel like crud for the next 24 hours, this time I was back to my chipper self by evening!
Is this a thing for those of us trying to avoid gluten?