Just watched the bbc 1 HEALTHY eating program about carbs and diabetes very interesting but...
I never feel hungry strangely enough but need to cut down or out my sweet tooth on the carb diet meals there didn't seem to be much in the way of cutting out sugar ?
HI Jojojo18
Welcome to the Healthy Eating community - I have recorded that TV programme you mentioned, as I noticed it was on last night, but I won't have time to watch it till the weekend, most likely. Glad you found it interesting though.
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For me sweets can be best controlled by cutting then out ALTOGETHER!! For me they stimulate my brain and this makes sweets addictive. I do not miss them anymore. But if I have just one cookie or one desert or even a taste of a desert, it triggers me to eat sugar when no one is looking. I have to think of it as poison for me. I can not control simple carbohydrates in my life. I also do not eat hemlock, poison ivy, arsenic, or rotting food. I remember 30 years ago I had a problem with alcohol and I joined AA. My sponsor came over to my apartment and cleaned out all the alcohol, (three boxes full!!) Two months later I had become addicted to cookies and he came back and cleaned out all the cookies!! I have been diabetic for 45 years and I am powerless over simple carbohydrates! So like alcohol and drugs, I do not use them. It is all the same. One taste and I'm gone for 2 or more days. Total abstinence is the answer for me. Good luck.
You're absolutely right to treat foods with refined sugar and simple carbohydrates (and refined added oils for that matter) as addictive. Here's a great 17 minute video that explains why it happens and how to resist. youtu.be/jX2btaDOBK8
Thanks- a great video!
THANK YOU for your input ,I never thought of sweet stuff as poison but I will now, especially chocolate, like you I eat it and I'm hooked
Here's a clip from the programme. It often shocks people as we've had decades of thinking baked potatoes, baked beans, breakfast cereal and low fat products were healthy choices.
This is worth reading
And these graphics about how different foods convert to sugar in our bodies
Omg shocked
I think most of us are, having dutifully tried to follow the instructions about reducing fat and relying on carbs for energy. I'm sure advice will catch up with evidence - eventually.
You might be interested in this
Everything carbs turn's to sugar, depends on what Kind of Carbs you eat? Complexs one's which digest slowly and Don't spike you're sugar as fast. The the the Simple Carbs that do the opposite. I hate having diabetes cause you have to be diligent on watching what you eat? You don't know what information to Trust,? Seems that no one has the same info? Go to a diabetic specialist, don't know what's that called ?
There's still loads of tasty stuff you can eat, though. So much of what we've been told is "healthy eating" doesn't stand up to current evidence.
I think these are reliable sources
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True, I've been trying to be creative so I can have my pie and eat it too. I make my own chocolate pie easy peasy about 5 grams of sugar, low calorie. I use a box of sugar free pudding, my topping is Cool whip, which has 2 grams of sugar per 2 tbls. DELICIOUS
I had to look up Cool Whip and, as this link says, you wouldn't like to know what it's made of 
organicauthority.com/health...
You'd be much better off having double cream. I look at ingredients on labels and think, if I don't know what it is, I'd rather not put it in my body
I'm 64, that's all I know is Cool Whip,. I've lived this long with no side effects from it.
I'm 67 and have made some huge changes to how and what I eat in the past year. It's never too late, if you want to do something, but I accept that you don't, on this one.
Thanks, I see nothing wrong with it. My grandfather was told to Stop drinking, Stop smoking and Stop eating the Wrong things. He told his doctor if I do I'll die. He lived to be 86. Not e everybody's going to fall victim to things we eat or do. My grandmother died at 96, her mother died at 100+.
That's fine. We all make our own choices. It's just that this is a Healthy Eating forum. I assume that means we discuss and share ideas about healthy eating and I looked up Cool Whip as I have never heard of it. These are the ingredients I found.
Water, hydrogenated vegetable oil, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, skim milk, light cream and less than 2% sodium caseinate (a milk derivative), natural and artificial flavor, xanthan and guar gums, polysorbate 60, sorbitan monostearate and beta carotene (as a coloring).
I don't know what several of those are so I wouldn't be inclined to put them in my body and, if I did, I wouldn't describe them as healthy. Each to their own.
Actually this site is mostly for those who have anxiety. Other things are mentioned, if anyone chooses to discuss those kinds of things their more than welcome too.
I hope you've had a look at the other forums specifically about anxiety and I wish you well
I do still love jackets potatoes though, but now I'm prediabetic ive cut it down to half a small potato once a week. Eaten with butter, salmon and good size salad. So the starchy carb proportion of the whole meal is quite small.
I am diabetic 2 and use the Low GI potato roasted in the oven.
As for JoJo's sweet tooth - you can try Gymnena Sylvestre which takes away the sweet / want more connection in the taste buds. I have low sugar yogurt ( under 3.4% ) and to me it tastes sweet - before starting gymnema I found them not sweet enough !
Additional in-depth perspectives on carbohydrates & sugar (in context of diabetes) if you (or anyone) are interested in supplemental information, Jojojo18:
• Dr. Neal Barnard’s videos: google.com/search?as_q=Dr.+...
• Cyrus Khambatta & Robby Barbaro’s videos: google.com/search?as_q=Cyru...
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Oh . . .the Douglas Lisle ”Pleasure Trap" video that JAS9 has kindly linked to (above) is an insightful explanation of how to overcome our sweet tooth 🍯 🦷 (& why it’s so darn difficult 😖). 👍👍 [ More from DL: healthunlocked.com/nras/pos... ]
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Sweet potato and vegetable spicy soup.🍲
Very happy with my new eating regime 🙂
