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I've been hovering on the edge of prediabetes for almost 5 years and now it's finally happened.
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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 1602063" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>Gosh, once again you are echoing my feelings from diagnosis-time pretty much exactly. I loved fruit, especially exotic fruits like kiwis. Although I do now eat fruit (but in very small quantities), the low-carb diet seems to have considerably changed my palette.</p><p></p><p>To give you an example. For various reasons, I have been eating one banana per day. This is a bit of a no-no on a strict low-carb diet, but bear with me. Although I still like the taste of a banana, it is quite different from the pre-diet days. Nowadays, it tastes almost like pure sugar. (And in fact if you look up the nutrition information, that is pretty much what a banana consists of.) In the old days it just tasted like ... well ... a banana!</p><p></p><p>I do have berries with my breakfast. They, too, have changed taste. They taste waaaay sweeter than they used to. So much that two small raspberries and two blueberries is enough for me. That's an infinitesimal quantity of fruit, but enough to satisfy my taste buds now. (And, for fruit, berries are low-carb.)</p><p></p><p>Edited to add another example: Coffee. I am pretty much addicted to it. In the old days, I always added milk and a teaspoon of white sugar. I would drink four or five cups in a typical morning. Well, that is something I did not give up, except that I now drink it black and unsweetened. To start with, this was hard because of the bitter taste. Nine months later, the black coffee actually tastes quite sweet. Even though coffee is actually zero-carb!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 1602063, member: 438800"] Gosh, once again you are echoing my feelings from diagnosis-time pretty much exactly. I loved fruit, especially exotic fruits like kiwis. Although I do now eat fruit (but in very small quantities), the low-carb diet seems to have considerably changed my palette. To give you an example. For various reasons, I have been eating one banana per day. This is a bit of a no-no on a strict low-carb diet, but bear with me. Although I still like the taste of a banana, it is quite different from the pre-diet days. Nowadays, it tastes almost like pure sugar. (And in fact if you look up the nutrition information, that is pretty much what a banana consists of.) In the old days it just tasted like ... well ... a banana! I do have berries with my breakfast. They, too, have changed taste. They taste waaaay sweeter than they used to. So much that two small raspberries and two blueberries is enough for me. That's an infinitesimal quantity of fruit, but enough to satisfy my taste buds now. (And, for fruit, berries are low-carb.) Edited to add another example: Coffee. I am pretty much addicted to it. In the old days, I always added milk and a teaspoon of white sugar. I would drink four or five cups in a typical morning. Well, that is something I did not give up, except that I now drink it black and unsweetened. To start with, this was hard because of the bitter taste. Nine months later, the black coffee actually tastes quite sweet. Even though coffee is actually zero-carb! [/QUOTE]
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