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squishychickfi

squishychickfi

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I have read a number of posts on here about being able to figure out whether what you are eating is causing a rise in blood sugar (eg carbs) and such like.

My question is this if I wanted to find out if diet coke is a culprit (I hope not!) how would I go about it?

Do I fast before and then have a can of coke and then test? if so what timeframe should I be looking at for fasting and then waiting to test? I am trying to be good with a lowish carb diet, but diet coke it the one thing I would really miss and I have heard that it can affect some people!

Hope someone can answer my query

Many thanks
 
If you want to be totally sure then take your fasting level......drink the diet Coke......test at 1, 2 and maybe 3 hr intervals. That will give you a fairly accurate reading. However, if you fast, and the level is low......then you have no food other than a Diet Coke....you could well 'liver dump' and your Bg levels will rise anyway ! Hence that method is not exactly a good thing to do. :wink:

Personally I drink as much Diet Coke/Pepsi as I want and it has no effect whatsoever on my Bg levels. I have never tested as I mentioned above.....I think that is taking things to the extreme.
I have a meal and a diet Coke then test two hours later, if the levels are OK then the meal and the Coke were fine. I certainly don't test every single item of food or drink individually.

Ken
 
Thanks Ken

Wasn't planning on testing everything :oops: its just the diet coke! I suppose if I have a meal that should be good for me :D then it will be easy to figure out that it is the diet coke if the levels are raised! Was just wondering how to eliminate the 'what if' factor of the other foods!

Thanks for the 1,2 & 3 hour advice - think that was what I was most unsure about - how long it take to read the blood stream!
 
No probs.....
I had this vision of you sitting there sipping your Diet Coke and starving at the same time ! :shock:

What I am trying to say is you can get too paranoid about this testing lark. A rise in your Bg level is more likely to be down to your food intake.......unless you go round drinking Lucozade or Orange Juice that is....... :D

Ken
 
diet coke doesn't *have* any carbs, surely?
btw I also dilute Robinson's no-sugar orange 1:8 instead of 1:4 as on the instructions and that is a very low amount of carb. makes a good alternative to tea and coffee.
DG
 
DG.
Yes....that's my view. However other members here have posted that it has affected their levels......maybe it's the ingredients. I know it never affects mine.

Ken
 
ahh now lucozade has been my downfall :oops: at the start I wasn't doing very well at having breakfast in the morning so having a bottle of lucozade instead! am better about it now - but it is something that I miss (have to have breakfast at school as it's too early at home!)

I probably came over as planning on testing everything one thing at a time :lol: but it was the diet coke that was my main concern as I drink so much of it - a bit pointless doing all the good eating stuff if I was undoing it with my choice of drink!

I don't drink tea or coffee so cold drinks are my usual - I too have squash but have always had it really really dilute!
 
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