How Often Do You Eat Sweet Food?

[kittycat73]

Me again. 😳 I'm on a diet but before that I was out of control with the sweet food. (Savoury I can take or leave, but sweet food...) Twice now I have broken that diet with chocolate binges. (Last night I had a packet of Bourbon Biscuits, three mint cornetto's, and some chocolate spread. ) Last night was because I was scared that being a diabetic meant no more sweet treats. Is this true? Do you have sweet food? How often? Is it really a case of never again?!

 

[Vonny]

The main thing is that you are getting back on the wagon again after a binge. Someone here (I think it was @everydayupsanddowns) said that the thing about diabetes is that every day is a new day.

I think I've mentioned before that I'm not really into sweet things, but by gum, when I get down to my target weight I'm going to celebrate with a cream cake! Just the one before I head back to my now-normal diet.

My son has been T2 for about 3 years, and he now has the occasional piece of chocolate cake. Because he's on his target weight, and his BG is stable, it doesn't make a huge amount of difference if it's just holidays and high days.

Keep up the good work (between binges!) x

 

[Drummer]

I have foods which are sweet but not high carb - real ice cream, sugar free jelly, berries, real custard. I have small amounts of high cocoa chocolate.
You can chose to have your carbs from sugar if you want to - but that will not reduce your wanting more.

 

[rebrascora]

To a certain extent it is about changing your tastes and finding other things that you get pleasure from, particularly if you are predisposed to binge, which I was. For me now, a sweet treat is a square of dark (70%+) chocolate with a spoonful of peanut butter to bulk it out usually split into 2 portions so half a square at a time or even break the square into 4. Pre-diagnosis, I could easily put away a whole bar of Dairy Milk or a multipack of Snickers or a whole box of Cadbury's Cream Eggs.
I went cold turkey to start with for several months which helped to reset my sensitivity to sweetness so even peanut butter tastes sweet to me now and I enjoy my little piece of dark chocolate when previously I would have gone for milk every time. I will confess that one of my first thoughts when diagnosed was that I would never be able to have another Cadbury's Cream Egg but it is no longer relevant as since going low carb, I no longer crave those things.... Not that I couldn't slide back into that sweet habit if I started but I choose not to and I like the control I have now.
It may be easier for me than you though because if I want to indulge I would have to inject myself with extra insulin and that keeps me in check. Yes a bit of extra insulin here and there wouldn't make a big difference but once you start on a binge, as you know, it is difficult to stop and then what about the next binge. To me it just simply had to stop because let's face it, we are poisoning ourselves with sugar and I already feel guilty enough about the cost of my treatment for the NHS without sabotaging it or using it unnecessarily.

 

[nonethewiser]

Fairly often.

Just back from few couple days away, yesterday had cream tea in Bewick, proper home made fruit scone & jam with delicious clotted cream.

 

[Ralph-YK]

For some time before I was diagnosed, some a while after, I didn't have any sweet, nor sweet things, cake, biscuiets etc. at all. Then the diet broke. A smigen.

 

[HenryBennett]

Do you have sweet food? How often? Is it really a case of never again?

No, it’s not a case of never again. Your food diary and BG numbers from testing will, over time, tell you the treats you can and can’t have and how much. Just be cautious.

I had some milk chocolate at Easter but have pretty much lost the taste for it. I got a massive spike from scones with jam and cream and now stay away. I’ve kept away from biscuits and crisps but enjoy sweet popcorn reasonably often and then tire of it.

But I’ve always loved ice cream and can eat that a couple of times a week without a spike - occasionally with hot chocolate sauce. You can get very tasty yogurt ice cream too.

All is not lost.

 

[Gappy]

I often have, let's call them "blow it" days, the thing is I don't feel bad about them as generally I'm sensible. I think that's the trick, you feel bad after the binge but why? If your control is generally good you know you're going to be on the right track again tomorrow. You started thinking about why it happened so are on the path to not repeating it. Don't feel bad, as a doctor once said to me you don't know how you normally react to this as you've not experienced it before.

 

[Docb]

I eat very little sweet stuff and don't keep sugar in the food store.

@Anitram, I have found that junk icecream like you get in Magnums is OK whereas the local, artisan-made, straight from the farm, etc, etc is not, so there may be hope for you. I think it because the big manufacturers are cutting back on sugar additions to their products in response to external pressures. The others are more interested in what the packaging looks like than the sugar level of the contents.

 

[Inka]

I have sweet things a number of times a week but I control the portions usually and make sure my blood sugar is ok. Obviously that’s easier for me because I have a Type 1 and am on insulin.

There are certain sweet things I can’t resist so I don’t buy them. But the same goes with some savoury foods like certain flavours of crisp.

For baking, I either reduce the sugar a little eg in a sponge cake, or make a lower carb cake. But for me, the important thing is the carbs of both sweet and savoury, and being mindful of portions and keeping my blood sugar in range.