Weird question

[ILikeSugar :|]

I was just wondering if many people eat sugary items here? I normally have a fun size chocolate bar little brownie or cake bars or a fibre one 90 bar straight after a meal so it works with my insulin as they're not too high in sugars and carbs, I was wondering if anyone eats donuts or quite sugar heavy items at any point a while after a meal and how bad it would affect your sugar levels as I wouldnt mind a sugary treat every now and again but sometimes I dont want it straight after a meal as I've just eaten. Is it okay to eat bags of sweets or a whole chocolate bar?

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Hello,
Donuts and the like are fine as long as you bolus for them.
Having type1 diabetes has it's advantages ie., insulin 🙂
Bags of sweets no as far to much sugar in one go. A dozy nut has plenty of fat to slow the sugar spike. Chocolate the same a small bar is fine not a huge family bar obviously.

Once you have worked out how your body and insulin copes with extra treats the worlds your oyster so to speak 🙂

 

[helli]

I eat doughnuts and cakes sometimes.
Not every day and not every week. But sometimes I eat them. But I always dose insulin to avoid getting high blood sugars.

 

[DaveB]

Hi. You may gain weight just as you would if you didn't have diabetes. Also if you are like me if I have too many carbs my BS goes exponential and no amount of Bolus will control it so you need to know your own body and the diabetes.

 

[ILikeSugar :|]

Hello,
Donuts and the like are fine as long as you bolus for them.
Having type1 diabetes has it's advantages ie., insulin 🙂
Bags of sweets no as far to much sugar in one go. A dozy nut has plenty of fat to slow the sugar spike. Chocolate the same a small bar is fine not a huge family bar obviously.

Once you have worked out how your body and insulin copes with extra treats the worlds your oyster so to speak 🙂

@Pumper_Sue good to know thanks I've been staying away from them for so long due to not knowing what theyd do the sweets I can pass on anyway as I have them if I'm going low so it puts me off wanting them a little

 

[ILikeSugar :|]

I eat doughnuts and cakes sometimes.
Not every day and not every week. But sometimes I eat them. But I always dose insulin to avoid getting high blood sugars.

@helli thank you that's good to hear so theres no chance of eating one without using insulin unless I'm willing to go high? I did have cake once a while back and after that my sugar levels messed up for like 2 weeks so I've been staying away from it but that could just been a change in my body and not the cake what was the cause?

 

[ILikeSugar :|]

Hi. You may gain weight just as you would if you didn't have diabetes. Also if you are like me if I have too many carbs my BS goes exponential and no amount of Bolus will control it so you need to know your own body and the diabetes.

Luckily I have a fairly good metabolism so I doubt I would put on weight if I had a little bit every now and again I've never really been a weighty person and when I got I'll with diabetes I lost literally all they meat I had on me haha luckily I'm back to normal now but it's good to know I can have sugar at times to satisfy my sweet tooth, but yes you are right everybody's diabetes seems to be different I guess you just have to experiment and see how your own body reacts to it.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

I was just wondering if many people eat sugary items here?

Sure, now and again.

 

[SB2015]

In theory with T1 you can eat what you want when you want so long as you match any carbs with insulin. Having said that many of us find that if we eat loads of carbs the insulin is not so effective, so we choose to have smaller portions of carbs. Also each of us finds that some specific foods spike our levels more than others, leading to smaller portions or elimination. We are all different and you will gradually find out what works for you. I was gutted when I found porridge oats was off my list, but I found a way round it by switching to home made cereal based on Quinoa flakes instead.

For my sweet tooth I try to avoid binging on large bars of chocolate and the family size bags are reduced to fun size bags. I also have a tin full of VERY nice chocolates and eat one after my evening meal. My favourite is Plain Chocolate Brazils.

 

[Gwynn]

Yup, like today I am having 30g of flapjack as my afternoon snack. All calculated in the diet for the day. Tested several times, it has little to no adverse effect on my blood glucose levels.

Yesterday I had an M&S chocolate eclair. Again tested several times and again little or no adverse effect on my blood glucose levels.

Allowing yourself to have the occasional treat can be very helpful and motivating as long as the treat does not cause any bad reaction 9r health issue. We are all different. My flapjack is ok for me but for someone else it might produce a big spike in their blood glucose levels.

Oh and if it helps, I am a T2 on no medication. So if it was going to 'get me', it would.

 

[ILikeSugar :|]

In theory with T1 you can eat what you want when you want so long as you match any carbs with insulin. Having said that many of us find that if we eat loads of carbs the insulin is not so effective, so we choose to have smaller portions of carbs. Also each of us finds that some specific foods spike our levels more than others, leading to smaller portions or elimination. We are all different and you will gradually find out what works for you. I was gutted when I found porridge oats was off my list, but I found a way round it by switching to home made cereal based on Quinoa flakes instead.

For my sweet tooth I try to avoid binging on large bars of chocolate and the family size bags are reduced to fun size bags. I also have a tin full of VERY nice chocolates and eat one after my evening meal. My favourite is Plain Chocolate Brazils.

Yeah @SB2015 that's what I've been told but like you said there is certain stuff what you cant really eat or it will send your sugars mad I've had to cut a lot of what I used to eat out before diabetes but if I'm honest my body is probably thanking me for it, I will try different stuff and see what it does to me that's the only way to find out I guess and to be honest my go to snack at the moment has been KP dry roasted nuts

 

[ILikeSugar :|]

Yup, like today I am having 30g of flapjack as my afternoon snack. All calculated in the diet for the day. Tested several times, it has little to no adverse effect on my blood glucose levels.

Yesterday I had an M&S chocolate eclair. Again tested several times and again little or no adverse effect on my blood glucose levels.

Allowing yourself to have the occasional treat can be very helpful and motivating as long as the treat does not cause any bad reaction 9r health issue. We are all different. My flapjack is ok for me but for someone else it might produce a big spike in their blood glucose levels.

Oh and if it helps, I am a T2 on no medication. So if it was going to 'get me', it would.

Nice @Gwynn that's good to hear that you can have certain stuff every now and again, funnily enough I had an eclair yesterday too haha it didnt affect my sugar levels much at all so they're quite good to have the thing is I just used to eat loads of sugar and rubbish so now that I'm diabetic it's been weird changing my diet but I'm slowly getting used to it

 

[Gwynn]

KP salted peanuts are great. I also discovered recently KP salted Cashew nuts. Even nicer, but they seem to have suddenly become unavailable everywhere. Sigh.

I try various foods and then test 2 hours later to see the effect. I have over 200 test points now, so it is helpful.

If I am really being very honest, I do have the occasional Mr Whippy ice cream. No problem. So yummy.

The bad news is that I have to sacrifice a lot during the day to compensate for the treat. My choice but it can be 'expensive' carb wise. Just got to do the calculations.

So I never just grab a treat and eat, never....unless I know I can compensate later in the day.

 

[ILikeSugar :|]

KP salted peanuts are great. I also discovered recently KP salted Cashew nuts. Even nicer, but they seem to have suddenly become unavailable everywhere. Sigh.

I try various foods and then test 2 hours later to see the effect. I have over 200 test points now, so it is helpful.

If I am really being very honest, I do have the occasional Mr Whippy ice cream. No problem. So yummy.

The bad news is that I have to sacrifice a lot during the day to compensate for the treat. My choice but it can be 'expensive' carb wise. Just got to do the calculations.

So I never just grab a treat and eat, never....unless I know I can compensate later in the day.

Oh @Gwynn I have seen the KP cashew nuts around if you say they're better I'll have to try some that's too bad they dont do them wherever your at and yes I'm the same I always check just before a meal and 2 hours after the mean just to see how it affects me

 

[helli]

so theres no chance of eating one without using insulin unless I'm willing to go high?

The advice when I was injecting (I now use an insulin pump) was that you can snack on up to 15g carbs between meals without injecting. Technically, that's not "without insulin" as the idea is that your basal/background insulin can mop that up.
Most cakes ... and definitely all doughnuts (unless you are only having a couple of mouthfuls) ... are more than 15g.

At first, this put me off snacking but I am usually a grazer so that was a huge challenge so I soon went back to my old ways and injecting just seems the normal thing to do.

As @Gwynn mentioned, there are some lower carb snacking options such as nuts but they tend not to be sweet. And you need to be careful not to binge on them because they can add up to more than 15g if you are not too careful.
If you fancy a bit of baking, there are some low carb cake recipes.

Oh, I nearly forgot, chocolate eclairs are low carb so you probably don't need to inject when you have one of them.

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Luckily I have a fairly good metabolism so I doubt I would put on weight if I had a little bit every now and again I've never really been a weighty person and when I got I'll with diabetes I lost literally all they meat I had on me haha luckily I'm back to normal now but it's good to know I can have sugar at times to satisfy my sweet tooth, but yes you are right everybody's diabetes seems to be different I guess you just have to experiment and see how your own body reacts to it.

There is no reason what so ever not to eat as you did before as long as you count your carbs and take the right amount of insulin for it. Obviously eating full pkts of sweets is a no no. But then have some handy for any lows you have.

Do you like fresh cream eclairs? If you do you might find them very kind to your blood sugars. But as others will tell you we are all different so experimentation is the name of the game 🙂
As time goes by you will become an expert in your own diabetes management 🙂

 

[Amity Island]

I was just wondering if many people eat sugary items here? I normally have a fun size chocolate bar little brownie or cake bars or a fibre one 90 bar straight after a meal so it works with my insulin as they're not too high in sugars and carbs, I was wondering if anyone eats donuts or quite sugar heavy items at any point a while after a meal and how bad it would affect your sugar levels as I wouldnt mind a sugary treat every now and again but sometimes I dont want it straight after a meal as I've just eaten. Is it okay to eat bags of sweets or a whole chocolate bar?

Hi @ILikeSugar :|

Eating a mixed diet (including chocolate and donuts) this is part of the D.A.F.N.E dose adjustment for normal eating programme that a lot of us have attended. They try to help people to bolus for normal everyday foods, not just what are classed as "diabetic" foods. As others have said, sweets don't seem to work too well with boluses, but chocolate and cakes seem to be a steady release food and work in time with boluses.

 

[ILikeSugar :|]

The advice when I was injecting (I now use an insulin pump) was that you can snack on up to 15g carbs between meals without injecting. Technically, that's not "without insulin" as the idea is that your basal/background insulin can mop that up.
Most cakes ... and definitely all doughnuts (unless you are only having a couple of mouthfuls) ... are more than 15g.

At first, this put me off snacking but I am usually a grazer so that was a huge challenge so I soon went back to my old ways and injecting just seems the normal thing to do.

As @Gwynn mentioned, there are some lower carb snacking options such as nuts but they tend not to be sweet. And you need to be careful not to binge on them because they can add up to more than 15g if you are not too careful.
If you fancy a bit of baking, there are some low carb cake recipes.

Oh, I nearly forgot, chocolate eclairs are low carb so you probably don't need to inject when you have one of them.

Oh that great to know @helli as I've been staying away from carby snacks completely I've been stuck on stuff like pepperamis and baby bells and other cheeses really so atleast I can switch it up time to time and that's good I thought you have to inject for every sugary item bus as long as they're low in carbs it doesnt matter too much? And I was the same before diabetes I never really had set meals and I'd just eat throughout the day but now I am I make sure to have 3 meals a day and a snack on the evening after dinner

 

[ILikeSugar :|]

There is no reason what so ever not to eat as you did before as long as you count your carbs and take the right amount of insulin for it. Obviously eating full pkts of sweets is a no no. But then have some handy for any lows you have.

Do you like fresh cream eclairs? If you do you might find them very kind to your blood sugars. But as others will tell you we are all different so experimentation is the name of the game 🙂
As time goes by you will become an expert in your own diabetes management 🙂

The thing is @Pumper_Sue if I eat the way I use to eat my sugar levels would be all over the place haha but I've found I can have the occasional item what I used to have here and there which is probably better off anyway as I used to eat way too much rubbish, but yes funnily enough i had a fresh cream eclair yesterday after dinner and they didnt really touch my sugar levels

 

[ILikeSugar :|]

Hi @ILikeSugar :|

Eating a mixed diet (including chocolate and donuts) this is part of the D.A.F.N.E dose adjustment for normal eating programme that a lot of us have attended. They try to help people to bolus for normal everyday foods, not just what are classed as "diabetic" foods. As others have said, sweets don't seem to work too well with boluses, but chocolate and cakes seem to be a steady release food and work in time with boluses.

That's good to hear I havent been referred to that course yet but when I do I will make sure to attend as it sounds quite helpful @Amity Island