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what about cups of tea?

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dragongirl

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Okay I am fine now with how all the testing goes (mentally okay, I mean - no one in their right mind would want to get up and stab their finger first thing) but I'm puzzled about cuppas. Does having one (or two) during the morning spoil the pre test result at lunchtime? Should I be adding them into my carb totals for the day? One gram? Or what? And if I have a filter coffee after dinner (the only coffee of the day), that's part of my "dinner" intake then? But if I have another drink (tea) between my one-hour and two-hour post test, surely that will scupper them? If I don't, I will be sad. Water isn't quite the same. Oh, and mentioning water - there couldn't be any carbs in our own water supply could there? We are a solitary dwelling supplied by a spring up the hill. Just wondered!

That's a lot of questions - sorry. But this forum is brilliant for finding things out. Thanks, all of you.
 
If you don't take sugar in your tea then the only carbs are the milk.The caffeine content of tea and coffee may make a difference but if I had to give up tea .......well I'm just not !!!! :lol: :lol:
 
If you make your coffee with skimmed milk, as in skinny latte, you probably need to count the carbs. If you are carb counting very accurately, to match with your insulin, it might make sense to count it, if not using insulin, it probably doesn't matter much.
Or if worried, how about lemon tea instead?
 
Enjoy your tea in quantitea :D

From another forum, where I wrote:
Let's all give thanks for mugs of tea
There is no better panacea;
Keep your guinness, gin & beer
A cup of tea gives greater cheer.
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Once, when I sat down to dine
the waiter poured a glass of wine
but in the night, awake in bed
the wine was throbbing round my head.
so now my night-time drink is tea
it doesn't wake me up to go to the bathroom.
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To which the reply came:
I like that poem,
it made me smile.
you managed to go
the extra mile.

it did not scan
but it made me grin
I really like tea
but I don't like gin.
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Those made me smile too - but I really want to know about drinking a cuppa between tests one and two. That's adding in the carb of the small amount of milk – does this skew the next test, or the pre test of the next meal? Or am I getting paranoid? And does it matter anyway in the overall scheme of things? I am, after all, just starting the second week of testing and controlling.
 
Hi Dragongirl,

Have you tried lactose-free milk that most supermarkets now sell? No carbs so nothing to worry about, and it tastes the same as normal milk.
 
I would ignore the amount of carbs in a cup of tea. In the DAFNE course (dose adjusting) I do not alter my insulin for anything below 15g carb. So a splash of milk would be fine. After all you would use that up in exercise walking to the kettle :wink:
Deb
 
@inwales - tea without anything is indeed nice, but only if you stir it with a stick of cinnamon and stick a sweetex in, but I don't think that's what you meant!

@Red Deb. ;-) I was only wondering if the extra 1g of carb would up my readings!! I'll just drink away then.

@Dennis - that sounds a good idea. I'll go look. Then I could have lots of milk...
 
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