Been a bit naughty

[Martin62]

As you know, I have been avidly baking low carb cakes since Christmas , but today our new polish neighbour gave us a traditional polish apple cake that she baked for us. It smelt lovely and was still warm from the oven. It consisted of a shortcrust base, a layer of apple, a thin layer of merengue and topped off with a crumble layer. How could I resist ??
So did a guesstimate for the carbs and had some for my pudding after my dinner.
It was delicious and well worth the extra insulin .Got to have a treat now and then .
Keeping an eye on the libre graph to see how I go.

 

[rosalindb]

As you know, I have been avidly baking low carb cakes since Christmas , but today our new polish neighbour gave us a traditional polish apple cake that she baked for us. It smelt lovely and was still warm from the oven. It consisted of a shortcrust base, a layer of apple, a thin layer of merengue and topped off with a crumble layer. How could I resist ??
So did a guesstimate for the carbs and had some for my pudding after my dinner.
It was delicious and well worth the extra insulin .Got to have a treat now and then .
Keeping an eye on the libre graph to see how I go.

Sounds lovely

 

[Deleted member 21371]

.........Got to have a treat now and then .......

You certainly do 🙂

 

[helli]

Sounds lovely but I am a strong believer that a healthy diet for Type 1 is no different to a healthy diet for someone without diabetes. Provided we dose our insulin appropriately, having a treat is having a treat. It is not being naughty. Thinking it is can lead to guilt about food and eating problems.

We are whole people. We are not just diabetics. We need to treat all if us not just the dodgy pancreas

I appreciate some people find insulin dosing easier with lower carbs but please please please avoid falling into the trap of thinking something that tastes good is bad and that we are not "allowed" to eat something with extra carbs sometimes.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

Sounds lovely but I am a strong believer that a healthy diet for Type 1 is no different to a healthy diet for someone without diabetes. Provided we dose our insulin appropriately, having a treat is having a treat. It is not being naughty. Thinking it is can lead to guilt about food and eating problems.

We are whole people. We are not just diabetics. We need to treat all if us not just the dodgy pancreas

I appreciate some people find insulin dosing easier with lower carbs but please please please avoid falling into the trap of thinking something that tastes good is bad and that we are not "allowed" to eat something with extra carbs sometimes.

I believe the same is true for type 2.
I decided no matter what, I wasn't going to beat myself up with food.
No food is bad for me.
(Although, any excess of any food could be)
I needed to balance my entire lifestyle, not just focus on the aspect of diet, and BG numbers and miss all the social side I used to enjoy before.

 

[nonethewiser]

Sounds lovely but I am a strong believer that a healthy diet for Type 1 is no different to a healthy diet for someone without diabetes. Provided we dose our insulin appropriately, having a treat is having a treat. It is not being naughty. Thinking it is can lead to guilt about food and eating problems.

We are whole people. We are not just diabetics. We need to treat all if us not just the dodgy pancreas

I appreciate some people find insulin dosing easier with lower carbs but please please please avoid falling into the trap of thinking something that tastes good is bad and that we are not "allowed" to eat something with extra carbs sometimes.

Same attitude here, well said.

 

[Martin62]

Sounds lovely but I am a strong believer that a healthy diet for Type 1 is no different to a healthy diet for someone without diabetes. Provided we dose our insulin appropriately, having a treat is having a treat. It is not being naughty. Thinking it is can lead to guilt about food and eating problems.

We are whole people. We are not just diabetics. We need to treat all if us not just the dodgy pancreas

I appreciate some people find insulin dosing easier with lower carbs but please please please avoid falling into the trap of thinking something that tastes good is bad and that we are not "allowed" to eat something with extra carbs sometimes.

It was only a tongue in cheek post, I certainly don't suffer from food guilt.
I don't eat special foods, just a normal healthy balanced diet. There are no foods that I consider not allowed , only some I choose not to eat. My guesstimate with the carbs was spot on, I had a lovely moussaka with a mountain of coleslaw followed by the cake and cream and bg peaked at 7.2 .