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Petal50

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yep i do... I am recently dx type 2, and am following a low carb diet the best i can, its only been 3wks but i've lost 6lbs in weight. i take metformin twice daily. i just long for something sweet, especially this time of evening, any ideas folks, i'm desperate....
 
One cube of desperately dark 85% chocolate? Some wouldn't call it sweet - but after ditching most other sweet things it does have a certain je ne sais quoi!! A few blueberries? You'll find something and it can be your treat for doing so well and keeping to the regime. Diet coke might even do. Zilch carbs.
DG
 
I prefer diet pepsi to diet coke, but I long for a glass of cherry coke :(

Hope you manage to find something that fulfills your craving!
 
When i get a sweet craving i mix Ricotta cheese with some sweetener and black coffee, or sometimes fresh blueberries with sweetner and soured cream stirred in...very moorish :D
 
If I get a craving for a sweet I test my Bg .....if it is lowish then I have something sweet ! The occasional treat isn't going to kill me. I am able to limit the intake by just saying "no more" to myself. If the Bg is high then I do without.......simple really ! :D

Ken
 
Ive tried it before Stephen, and I found it was more like a cheap cherryaid type of fizzy drink, I guess it just aint the same without all that extra added sugar :D
 
cugila said:
If I get a craving for a sweet I test my Bg .....if it is lowish then I have something sweet ! The occasional treat isn't going to kill me. I am able to limit the intake by just saying "no more" to myself. If the Bg is high then I do without.......simple really ! :D

Ken
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Couldn't have put this better...Amen Ken
 
Ive tried it before Stephen, and I found it was more like a cheap cherryaid type of fizzy drink, I guess it just aint the same without all that extra added sugar :D
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Guess I'm lucky, have been drinking 'diet' coke since it's UK launch, and 'tab' before it - I hate sugary drinks!! :lol:

Actually, I now hate 'diet' coke (!), though I do still occassionally like the cherry variety.... they use to do a 'diet' vanilla variety too (it had a cream coloured screw lid) but haven't seen that around since the demise of Woolworths :|
 
I recently bought a soda stream so I use sugar free vimto and stuff now to make fizzy drinks, I am ok with diet pepsi, but I find the coke tastes of sweeteners and I cant stand the taste of them at all, its bad enough having them in my tea :shock:
 
This is Annika Dahlqvist's advice for people starting a lo-cho diet:

If you get hungry or have cravings, take 1-2 slices of cheese, a slice of sausage or ham, a glass of milk or yoghurt, a few nuts, some olives, or something else lowcarb.

AD is a Swedish diabetes doctor. I second her advice, it works for me. If I had something sweet, it would just make the problem worse.
 
I couldn't eat cheese or sausage and stuff if I had a craving for sweet foods as the OP has.........they are definitely not on the menu, whatever A/D advises.

There are plenty of sweets around that individually are less than 5g carbs......if you have the will power ?

1 x Werther's Original Caramel Chocolate Dark = 3g carbs......two is heaven ! :D

Then there is Hartley's sugar free Blackcurrant Jelly........a whole Pint of the stuff = 1.2g carbs. Tastes lovely ! :D

Ken
 
I definitely agree with Jelly!

Hartley's is the best, except the Lemon Lime one which smells and tastes of Lemsip?!

I always keep some of this in the fridge - I got a jelly mould from Poundland that has a lid, handy.

Also I have Good Earth Sweet Citrus tea, which is sweet enough not to add sugar.

I/2 teaspoon of 100% cocoa powder sprinkled over a cup of warm skimmed milk or unsweetened soya milk with a little artificial sweetener - Hot choc!
 
I never used to touch diet drinks before diagnosis but now I drink diet cherry coke, the flavoured fizzy water from Sainsburys which comes in many, many flavours and has no sugar and diet cream soda ( again from Sainsburys ) which has proper vanilla flavouring. These are by far the best as far as I'm concerned :)
 
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