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Nicksellick

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Hi all,
I am having my first annual review on Monday. A12 down from 118 on diagnosis to 48 in April. Hoping for a further drop tomorrow.
generally I think I’m doing ok. Much better diet, more exercise, etc.
my question is what do you all drink?
i‘ve dropped sugar from my coffee and still enjoy it.
I sometimes have a sweetener in tea, sometimes not. I don’t really like it without, but I’m trying.
I used to drink lots of no added sugar squash, but I know that it has other nasties in it, so I’d like to fins an alternative,
Any suggestions? I’ve tried herbal teas and can’t really taste them. Water .is fine if I’m really thirsty, but I’m not a huge fan!
Any suggestions really welcome.
Cheers Nick.
 
I used to drink mainly tea with sweetex sweetners but since I had covid a few months back it’s not the same. I drink coffee occasionally at home, I’ve never had sugar/sweetener in. The drink I mainly have is no sugar squash I can’t stand plain water.
 
I drink weak Japanese sencha tea, weak coffee and moderate tea. But mostly plenty of water.
 
Try adding the juice of half a freshly squeezed lime and a little pink salt to a large glass of iced water. Delicious and a bit of a ‘pick me up’. I start every day with that.
 
Coffee either black or with cream, sometimes decaff sometimes full caffeine, black Earl Grey tea, sometimes with a piece of ginger, fizzy mineral water usually on its own but can be with a slice or lime, lemon, ginger or cucumber.
 
Nicksellick said:
Hi all,
I am having my first annual review on Monday. A12 down from 118 on diagnosis to 48 in April. Hoping for a further drop tomorrow.
generally I think I’m doing ok. Much better diet, more exercise, etc.
my question is what do you all drink?
i‘ve dropped sugar from my coffee and still enjoy it.
I sometimes have a sweetener in tea, sometimes not. I don’t really like it without, but I’m trying.
I used to drink lots of no added sugar squash, but I know that it has other nasties in it, so I’d like to fins an alternative,
Any suggestions? I’ve tried herbal teas and can’t really taste them. Water .is fine if I’m really thirsty, but I’m not a huge fan!
Any suggestions really welcome.
Cheers Nick.
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water should be your no1 drink! I used to need it a lot when my BG was out control. now I remind myself that my kidneys need it to function with ease. dehydration is really bad for DM as you already know. and that brings us to coffee that I absolutely adore. I have never smoked but two coffees a day sound just about right to me.
absolutely no sugar or sugary cream and no cookies but a bit of sprinkled cinnamon and dark cocoa on top. (cocoa, not chocolate of any kind!) always drink water along side coffee to offset caffeine as it raises BG the second you drink it. google recommend caffeine per day for DM
 
Coffee, tea, herb tea, still water, fizzy water, and no-sugar fizzy drinks on occasion.
Alcoholic bevs - dry white sparkling, merlot, brandy on occasion.

I personally have not found coffee to raise my BG.
 
In no particular order: Coffee (ground not instant) with cream and sweetener (has zero impact on my BG) ; tea very occasionally, with a splash of full cream milk; Coke Zero; iced tea, zero sugar; soda water; own-brand zero sugar caffeine drinks. None of these seem to raise my BG at all.

Alcohol- spirits, no mixers; red wines; beer maybe once a month. Alcohol taken with carbs lowers my BG readings at lot over what I would expect, The carb rise still happens but in a much longer pattern over a day ot two, although it doesn't seem to produce any "spiking".
 
@BrianDoc - Dry bubbles/sparkling/champagne is very low carb - 1 gram a glass. I splash out on a sparkling pinot gris cos I love it, which can be as much as 4 grams a glass - my fave budget sparkling pinot gris in a piccalo is 2 grams. Very dry.

Dry reds are very low carb too. You don't want to go too cheap, or buy wine from countries that you think, hmmmm - wine producing? Really? Re the amount of sun, because those may have sugar added to them after fermentation.You can generally taste it! Cheap Aussie and cheap Kiwi wine are pretty safe imho, but I might be biased.(We have more expensive cheapos from the warm Euro countries, so....)

OK - so the key is dryness! When it comes to wine. But it's a bit of a perfect alcoholic beverage, if you like the grape, for those who are carb-intolerant, and you don't want to hit the hard liquour/ too often. The Paleo folk swear by tequila, for best hard liquour (I guess as it is non grain based). Hard liquor is zero carb of course, on its own.

Now the calories! (Or - the energy in these drinks, is a better way to talk about it?) That's an entirely different story!
 
One sachet of instant coffee ( 3 in 1 - mix of coffee, creamer and with "50% less sugar" = 2.4gm sugar) seems to have increased my CGM reading from 100 (5.55. mmol) to a peak of 174 (9.7) on my Abbott CGM within 40 mins.
I am surprised by this huge spike - I was expecting around 20-30 points at most. Grateful for any wisdom about whether this seems reasonable.
 
I have just bought some Beanies decaf so I am going to give it a go :bookworm:
 
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One sachet of instant coffee ( 3 in 1 - mix of coffee, creamer and with "50% less sugar" = 2.4gm sugar) seems to have increased my CGM reading from 100 (5.55. mmol) to a peak of 174 (9.7) on my Abbott CGM within 40 mins.
I am surprised by this huge spike - I was expecting around 20-30 points at most. Grateful for any wisdom about whether this seems reasonable.
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Have you looked to see how many carbs it contains as it may be low sugar but highish carb
 
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