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Diet fizzy drinks

hornplayer

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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Pepsi max :)

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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
 
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