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10-29-2009, 04:13 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Southern California
Posts: 50
| | | Is it worth it?
What is your secret craving? You know, the one that you will bolus for when you know that the opportunity to pig out exists? Your favorite buffet, desert, carb? Confess, we all have a weakness. 
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Life may not be the party you expected but while you're here you may as well dance.
gary
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10-29-2009, 06:05 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Santa Barbara, Ca
Posts: 43
| | | Since I work at a coffee shop, i am tempted all the time with sugary drinks and bagels/pastries. If I do plan to pig out, itll have to be between the chocolate chip scone, pumpkin muffin, or my favorite, the chocolate pecan bar *drool*
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Dx'ed 01/06/07 A1C: Forgot >.<
Metformin 500mg x3 daily
Glyburide 5mg daily
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10-29-2009, 06:11 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 9,311
| | | Only one thing that I absolutely can't walk away from...... peppermint ice cream. Tis the season, coming up.
__________________  Nancy Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa diagnosed type 1 October 1986
currently using Medtronic MiniMed
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10-29-2009, 06:40 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Southern California
Posts: 50
| | Forgot to confess mine. A good french baguette and coffee in the morning will raise my bg from a fbg of 105 to a two hour bg of 220, and a bran muffin and coffee will raise it from 75 to 80 points. Something about serious starch in the morning is my downfall. 
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Life may not be the party you expected but while you're here you may as well dance.
gary
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10-29-2009, 06:49 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: West Babylon, NY
Posts: 607
| | | Mmm. Dinner at Panera. Always worth the money and the insulin.
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Amanda
misdiagnosed type 2 8/2007
rediagnosed type 1 8/2008
Pumping since 11/2008!!
Purple Minimed 722 named Barney
Other Meds:
Yaz
Elavil (10mg at night)
Metformin 1000mg 2x/day
a1c 8.3% 9/9/08 
a1C 7.4 1/17/09 (better, as I stabilize)
a1c 7.3 6/09 (frickin' IR) |
10-29-2009, 07:28 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 653
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Originally Posted by GeishaGirl  Mmm. Dinner at Panera. Always worth the money and the insulin. | *sigh*
I'd kill for a Smoked Turkey Breast sandwich on Asiago Foccacia with a side of potato chips. And a sweetened iced tea.
:P
I could go for just the sandwich though.
I haven't cheated that bad intentionally yet. Once I learned that a half of one of those sandwiches spikes me pretty good, I haven't tried since then.
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8/13/09 (Dx) A1c: 9.5 FBG: 320
10/12/09 Avg BG: 104 Avg FBG: 96
Metformin XR 500mg once daily
Low(ish) Carber @ < ~60g-75g per day
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10-29-2009, 08:35 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Gold Country (CA)
Posts: 1,706
| | | Thai Iced Tea...makes me glad I'm not on insulin because if I was, I'd probably go out for Thai every time I go down to town & splurge.... |
10-29-2009, 09:30 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Missouri Ozarks
Posts: 1,885
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Honor is what you know about yourself." Lois McMaster Bujold "Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go;
it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." Alice Mackenzie Swaim
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10-29-2009, 10:10 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Southern California
Posts: 460
| | | Fresh hot baked french bread.......hubby brought a loaf home last night with our dinner (rotisserie chicken). It was still warm in the bag.....*gah*
I ate TWO slices instead of my usual one. Two hours later I was staring down a BG of 172.......correction time of course.
But it was so worth it!!!!!!
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Levemir, Novolog
Metformin 850 x 3
Lower carb lifestyle A1C:
11/3/07: 7.5
2/23/08: 7.4
8/30/08: 8.1  1/29/09: 5.7 5/21/09: 5.7 9/28/09: 5.8 Triglycerides:
11/3/07: 321
2/23/08: 328
8/30/08: 330 1/29/09: 166 5/29/09: 230
9/28/09: 201 |
10-29-2009, 10:18 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 8,672
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10-29-2009, 10:42 PM
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I am a: Pre-Diabetic | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Greater San Diego area
Posts: 1,426
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Originally Posted by notme Only one thing that I absolutely can't walk away from...... peppermint ice cream. Tis the season, coming up. | 1 pint heavy cream
Enough DaVinci SF peppermint syrup to give you the peppermint taste strength you like
Some stevia for additional sweetness
5 eggs, beaten
Enough unsweetened almond milk to make up a quart of mix
Ice cream maker.
I've had a bowl of mint/raw cacao nib ice cream every night this week.
appears to do do wonders for my BGs!
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Dx prediabetic 02/08 (FBG 127 and 123)
A1c 02/08: 6.5; A1c 05/08: 6.0
A1c 11/08: 5.5; A1c 03/09: 5.3
A1c 09/09: 5.4
No meds
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10-29-2009, 10:57 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Victoria Canada
Posts: 1,369
| | | do you have to heat the cream to cook the eggs or does one eat them raw?
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SoSo
Dx Sept 2004
A1c 5.2
MDI
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10-29-2009, 11:31 PM
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I am a: Pre-Diabetic | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Greater San Diego area
Posts: 1,426
| | | I do not cook them. I suppose that you could, if you weren't lazy, like me.
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Dx prediabetic 02/08 (FBG 127 and 123)
A1c 02/08: 6.5; A1c 05/08: 6.0
A1c 11/08: 5.5; A1c 03/09: 5.3
A1c 09/09: 5.4
No meds
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10-29-2009, 11:34 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: South Florida
Posts: 281
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Originally Posted by soso do you have to heat the cream to cook the eggs or does one eat them raw? | It's a fairly traditional custard based ice cream mixture. Yes, you have to cook it or warm it enough so that the egg yolks thicken the cream and then you refrigerate it to cool for several hours and then pop into the ice cream maker. I've always loved the custard based ice creams. Great luxurious mouth feel and the taste is just rediculous!
Now, in answer to the op's question, I have to say that since I do not really go for fast foods or the kind of foods that chain restaurants offer, my weakness is Chinese food. However, since I have been cooking Chinese food (Cantonese) since the early 70's, I can make just about whatever I want. I don't really miss anything because I can easily convert a recipe to something that is not going to spike me (and many others but YMMV) and I eat just about anything I want. I guess the only thing I miss that I have not been able to duplicate is maybe a chocolate croissant. Ahh, the memories. But since I'm still eating the results of my testing of Decadent Double Chocolate Tartlets and they have just about 8.5 g net carb (posted here in recipes) I am not missing chocolate at the moment one bit.
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10-30-2009, 08:30 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Wi
Posts: 256
| | I am not type 1, and no insulin yet for me, but the one that is worth the sugar spike is Korean Bebimbap. It spikes me to about 180, but I accept that risk since I love it so much!
Darn! I don't have lunch plans yet. I may end up there today now. 
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