Your Sweet Tooth - Fitting Sweets Into a Diabetic Diet

For years diabetics were all the time warned sugar was the cause of their disease and ingesting it made it worse. Many citizen to this day still believe they can have no sweets.

But carbs are still carbs. It does not matter if they came from sugar, white bread, white rice, potatoes, or bagels. When your body breaks down each of these in your digestive system, they are all still uncomplicated sugars which will cause a quick rise in your blood sugar levels.

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How To Fit Sweets Into Your Diet

Dropping all sweets from your daily life therefore is not necessary. You just have to learn how to catalogue for them in your daily menus. On the days when you wish to have a small amount of sweets, regardless if that is a piece of cake, some pie or that donut you have been fantasizing about, make sure the other food products you have that day are lower in carbohydrates (use non-starchy cooked vegetables, a serving of lean meat or non fat dairy, raw vegetable salads etc) and then you can have your piece of dream dessert without all the guilt.

Adding some sweets into your diet is just a game of give and take. The days you wish a dessert, means that day you will have to lay off the white rice, potatoes, over-consumption of fresh fruit etc.. Just remember, adding candies and cookies, pastries and pies though should be an occasional treat. Do not make it part of your daily diet. This type of food, although tasting good, has very minute to no added nutrients which are needful to good health. The same is not true for the addition of potatoes and grains.

Therefore try some of the following suggestions to add in or take out of your diet for good daily sugar control.

Foods labeled as sugar free, reduced sugar, no sugar, or dietetic still have carbohydrate grams. Often a company will remove the sugar and replace it with someone else type of sweetener just as high in carbs. The label is accurate when it says no sugar, but the label does not say "no sweetener". The alternative sweetener used will have to be factored into your daily carbohydrate counts.
Some citizen can have a singular serving of a favorite sweet, one piece of chocolate candy, one cookie etc. And be entirely satisfied. If you can do this, grab a small snack size of a candy bar, a 100 calorie holder of cookies, 10 pieces of M&M's (equals the 100 calories) etc. And enjoy it at your leisure
Trick your eyes into believing you are having something else. Instead of that strawberry sundae you would love to have, take an ice cream unsweetened waffle cone, place some non-fat yogurt in the lowest tip, add a few sliced strawberries, more yogurt and just keep alternating to the top. Sit back, relax and enjoy your own version of an ice cream sundae.
If you happen to love apple dumplings and you just know that is off the menu, try this dissimilarity instead: core a small apple and place in a microwave safe bowl. Add one teaspoon sugar free caramel topping (read the label though, some are high in sodium), one teaspoon of chopped walnuts and one teaspoon water (or lemon juice if you prefer). Place in the microwave and cook on high for 4 to 8 minutes (depending on the wattage of your machine) and until it reaches the consistency you prefer. Remove, allow to cool a minute and enjoy.
Try to eat all of your sweets with a regular meal or snack which also contains food high in proteins and low in carbs. Sweets eaten by themselves seem to trigger our appetite for longer and stronger than sweets eaten with other foods. You also can expect a lower surge in your blood sugars when combined with other good for you foods.
And the greatest high you can receive mentally is to check the label considered first, but there is some foods such as sugar free gelatin, sugar free fruit popsicles or sugar free fudgesicles that have less than 5grams carbs per serving. Many doctors will allow these foods to be considered a Free Food in your diet when used in moderation.

So with a minute bit of pre-planning, enjoying some of the small pleasures from sweets can no longer be the downfall of any diabetic's diet.

Your Sweet Tooth - Fitting Sweets Into a Diabetic Diet