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Diet fizzy drinks

hornplayer

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Going to test to see if fizzy drinks have an impact on my blood sugar. From reading here, I know that some people have problems with them. I'd stick with water but I'm taking a school trip to Paris for four days on Friday and I'd like more options.

Fizzy drink, for purposes of tonight's grand and daring experiment is Pepsi Max.

Also, is it true that you can use your blood sugar meter to test a suspiciously sweet "diet" drink?
 
This will be interesting as I've been getting high evening readings for the past few days and, as far as I can work out, the only difference has been drinking a lot of ice cold diet coke [asda own brand].

If I get another high reading tonight I'll do my own experiment and stay on water tomorrow.

Do let us know how you get on
 
I drink quite a lot of Coke Zero (Coke Zero is for men; Diet Coke is for the girls; watch the ads ) and I've never had any spikes from it.

I believe you can use urine testing strips to check drinks; they're much cheaper than blood testing strips, which would probably not work, anyway.


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I suppose it's ok if you buy it yourself, test it and know what you were drinking. I can remember a few posts on here where people bought drinks in a bar and specified diet coke. They got whatever the bartender had in the mixer machine at the time. I think one of them complained and got short shrift.

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Coke zero tastes funny. I'm a Pepsi girl!

5.15pm blood sugar at 6.4. administered 200ml of ice cold Pepsi max.

6.15pm blood sugar at 6.2

Looking good! more at 7.15pm


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Cherry Pepsi Max! Up until a year ago, I was bad for fizzy drinks, then started drinking pepsi max. Didn't like it at first, but knew I couldn't continue drinking sugar filled fizzy drinks, and even though I drink about 3 litres of water a day, I still need something fizzy! Now, I can;t even touch fizzy drinks that have sugar in them. They taste like syrup to me. My tastebuds have changed and a 2ltr bottle of Cherry pepsi max will last me a week in the fridge, whereas a 2ltr normal pepsi or coke would last one night.
 
I am Hyperglycemic Type 2 - I do drink diet fizzy drinks. I have found most have little effect my sugars except the coke type ones. They all seem to increase it except for Pepsi range. I can drink Fanta Zero, Irn Brew (diet), Sprite and quite a few others with no effect whatsoever. When I go to the pub and they only have the coke ones on I have tonic or soda with a splash of lime and am usually ok with that. Some pubs carry quite a good range of diet drinks so occasionally the choice is better. I also drink lager occasionally, but alternate it with water or a slimline and my sugars don't spike that much either as long as I remember to eat before bed
 
Yeah I've never had any noticeable issues with diet drinks. Shame I can't say the same for alcohol!
 
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