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Sugar free sweets & their affects

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Mark Parrott

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Just wondering how many sugar free sweets it's safe to eat before diving off to the loo? Just had 2 weight watchers lemon sherbets. Feel ok at the moment.🙂
 
Half a dozen before the sphincter tooting begins and more than a dozen before the polyol trots kick in!!! 😱😳
 
Lol! Thanks Lynn.🙂
 
Riccola sugar free does say on there packets it is 10 in 2 hours.
 
Mark Parrott said:
Just wondering how many sugar free sweets it's safe to eat before diving off to the loo? Just had 2 weight watchers lemon sherbets. Feel ok at the moment.🙂
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I tend not to bother with sugar free sweets, as I've never really had a sweet tooth, but one thing I will say is to check the sweeteners used in some of these sugar free sweets. Not all artificial sweeteners are blood sugar friendly.

How do I know this? Early days, some medicinal, sugar free liquorice. From the desired effect standpoint, I would have been better with polyols.........

My internet connection is horrendous today, so I'm keeping my relationship with Dr Google at bay, but a Google search should return a list of sweeteners that are considered most diabetic friendly. Trudi Deakin's book "Eat Fat" has a couple of pages dedicated to this, but where I am now, my copy seems to be on permanent loan to someone trying out the lifestyle, so I can't complain. Trudi's book could be a helpful addition to your Diabetes Reading Library. It's available from her website X-Pert Health, if I recall correctly.
 
I once stupidly ate an entire 90g pack of sugar-free jerry gummies (probably about 20-25 sweets).

Not only did it punt my blood sugar up to the 20s, I was in so much pain I had to manually deflate myself by lying on my back and squeezing my knees against my chest and aiming at an open window.

The reward of doing a fart that lasted over a minute and changed note six times was NOT worth it. o_O
 
DeusXM said:
I once stupidly ate an entire 90g pack of sugar-free jerry gummies (probably about 20-25 sweets).

Not only did it punt my blood sugar up to the 20s, I was in so much pain I had to manually deflate myself by lying on my back and squeezing my knees against my chest and aiming at an open window.

The reward of doing a fart that lasted over a minute and changed note six times was NOT worth it. o_O
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Were the McWhirter twins in attendance? 😱 :D
 
Thank you @DeusXM for making me cry with laughter today! 😱 :D

I hope you learned your lesson though... o_O
 
Well, I've stuck to just the 2 lemon sherberts to be on the safe side. Quite nice but bit of a nasty aftertaste. Obviously the Stevia.
 
Lynn Davies said:
Half a dozen before the sphincter tooting begins and more than a dozen before the polyol trots kick in!!! 😱😳
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Umm, and you know this how? 😱
 
Errrrrr early dalliance with Atkins 😳

I went over 2 years with no sugar in my diet then went hog wild with 100gms of sugar free cola bottles 😱😳

Truth be known my sphincter was tootling like a trombone player on speed! 😳
 
Aldi do a nice range of sugar free, the cappuccino ones are especially nice, all made with Isomalt and sucralose. i seldom eat more than 4 or 5 in a go as they live in the car.
 
Lynn Davies said:
Errrrrr early dalliance with Atkins 😳

I went over 2 years with no sugar in my diet then went hog wild with 100gms of sugar free cola bottles 😱😳

Truth be known my sphincter was tootling like a trombone player on speed! 😳
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Lorblimey! I really feel for you.
 
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