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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2196802" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Yes - I absolutely see it as helpful to see the draw towards sweet things, and carby comfort food in the light of addiction. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I personally see low-carb/zero carb substitution as being hugely helpful - and agree with [USER=355878]@Resurgam[/USER] on the wonders of fake-sugared jellies, even with the sulftites and colours. if you were once like me and ate packets of lollies, no end of desserts, cakes, muffins, sugary drinks - a weightwatchers lime jelly is a soothing dessert-treat that goes a long way (and over four or five days - a 0.4g of carb consumption in total). I eat mine with a couple of blueberries and cream so add another 10 g of carbs over the five days? (within cooee?) 2.2 g of carbs a day? (I am not a confident mathematician <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I have experimented with fake sugars - and xylitol, ethryitol in small amounts - and absolutely stevia suits my digestion and my BG meter readings. My gut biome functions well enough with these, I would say. (I understand the arguments against such sweeteners, re gut biome health, and re cold turkey vs not - but I need substitutes I also say, as a sugar/carb addict.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Ice cream, my nemesis, I did 'cold turkey' on, on diagnosis 5 and a half years ago, of course, for a few years, until I forked out heaps of dough for an ice cream maker, being inspired by Dr Jay Wortman, a North American first nation doc and blogger/doc maker with type 2, who makes his own chocolate ice cream regularly with his fake sugars/sweeteners of choice. (His type 2 is in remission/resolved - whatever you want to call it.) For the last 2 summers I put the energy and cream and coconut milk, heaps of eggs, my fave stevia crystals, and low-carb/zero carb flavourings into batches of lchf/seriously Keto homemade icecream. It certainly deals with all the factory-made ice cream around me acting as a tormenting lure! It helps that I know all the stevia sweetened treaty 'stuff' I am good with. (Will I work on making my own additive-free jelly one day? Sigh - I guess I will!) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I have also made from scratch my own fermented fizzies substitute for commerical no-sugar sodas, which were wonderful tasting tonics - but the work involved in that was HUGE - too huge. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Do I sound like an addict? On substitutes? I would say yes!</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 2196802, member: 150927"] [FONT=Arial]Yes - I absolutely see it as helpful to see the draw towards sweet things, and carby comfort food in the light of addiction. I personally see low-carb/zero carb substitution as being hugely helpful - and agree with [USER=355878]@Resurgam[/USER] on the wonders of fake-sugared jellies, even with the sulftites and colours. if you were once like me and ate packets of lollies, no end of desserts, cakes, muffins, sugary drinks - a weightwatchers lime jelly is a soothing dessert-treat that goes a long way (and over four or five days - a 0.4g of carb consumption in total). I eat mine with a couple of blueberries and cream so add another 10 g of carbs over the five days? (within cooee?) 2.2 g of carbs a day? (I am not a confident mathematician :).) I have experimented with fake sugars - and xylitol, ethryitol in small amounts - and absolutely stevia suits my digestion and my BG meter readings. My gut biome functions well enough with these, I would say. (I understand the arguments against such sweeteners, re gut biome health, and re cold turkey vs not - but I need substitutes I also say, as a sugar/carb addict.) Ice cream, my nemesis, I did 'cold turkey' on, on diagnosis 5 and a half years ago, of course, for a few years, until I forked out heaps of dough for an ice cream maker, being inspired by Dr Jay Wortman, a North American first nation doc and blogger/doc maker with type 2, who makes his own chocolate ice cream regularly with his fake sugars/sweeteners of choice. (His type 2 is in remission/resolved - whatever you want to call it.) For the last 2 summers I put the energy and cream and coconut milk, heaps of eggs, my fave stevia crystals, and low-carb/zero carb flavourings into batches of lchf/seriously Keto homemade icecream. It certainly deals with all the factory-made ice cream around me acting as a tormenting lure! It helps that I know all the stevia sweetened treaty 'stuff' I am good with. (Will I work on making my own additive-free jelly one day? Sigh - I guess I will!) I have also made from scratch my own fermented fizzies substitute for commerical no-sugar sodas, which were wonderful tasting tonics - but the work involved in that was HUGE - too huge. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Do I sound like an addict? On substitutes? I would say yes![/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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