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Had an icecream

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Stuart B

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Had an ice cream yesterday, on holiday and just fancied it. I know diabetes is not a diet that can have a holiday from, but can I occasionally have a treat without feeling guilty?
 
Stuart B said:
Had an ice cream yesterday, on holiday and just fancied it. I know diabetes is not a diet that can have a holiday from, but can I occasionally have a treat without feeling guilty?
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Good for you Stuart! It's important to take care of ourselves, but it's also important to live and enjoy life 🙂 Actually, I have found that, over the years, my taste for some of the things I would consider treats has changed - I had a slice of hot chocolate fudge cake with mint choc chip ice cream recently (after a long country walk) and actually found it a bit heavy going as it was so sweet! 😱 I still ate it though, I'm a Yorkshireman and I'd paid good money for it! 😱 :D
 
If you fancy ice cream buy yourself an icecream maker and some nice thick cream, and some eggs and whatever flavours you fancy - real icecream knocks the stuff sold under that name right out of the ground.
My grandma used to make icecream using a salt and ice freezing mixture, the cream from a herd of Jersey cows and eggs from her own hens - the local doctors used to prescribe it for children who were not thriving. It was called 'forget me not'.
 
Stuart B said:
Had an ice cream yesterday, on holiday and just fancied it. I know diabetes is not a diet that can have a holiday from, but can I occasionally have a treat without feeling guilty?
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I think you can completely ignore diabetes, and it'll take over and ruin your life. It Or you can devote every minute to worrying about it, and it'll take over and ruin your life.
You still have to enjoy your life, everything is about balance.
There is a lot more to diabetes than watching your blood sugar.
Enjoy an ice cream, if you are on top of your BG, an odd ice cream isn't going to do much to you in the grand scheme of things anyway.

"Making changes without changing me" is an excellent sentiment.
 
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