Tricks I use in this Diabetic struggle

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I just thought I'd share some of the things I do to try to make my

eating choices better.

I keep those 4 oz. dixie cups right near the fridge. I have a child

so my home can't be completely junk or sugar free. I used to LOVE

JUICE apple and orange - drank some every day. Well I have cut out

OJ but I keep apple around. Whenever I get the hunkering for the

taste of juice - I grap the dixie cup. Fill 1/2 with apple juice and

1/2 with cold water out the fridge. This extra step greatly dilutes

the apple juice and allows me to have taste. My sugars never go up

above 10 points.

I also keep canned tomatoes around. I used to love gravy's with my

chicken. Now I just pour a can of diced tomatoes on it instead, give

it flavor and doesn't do anything to my sugars.

I also keep a 1/3 measuring cup in the center of the stove 1/3 cup of

anything has never killed anyone, lol. So I use that to measure any

incriminating carbs.

I also have a 24 oz. cup that I use at dinner. I drink 1 of those

full of water and it greatly reduces the chances that I'll go back

for seconds.

Tonite I had 1/2 cup rice, 2 baked chicken wings with diced tomatoes,

and about a cup of sauteed yellow squash (in marj) and onions and a

diet Faygo Red Soda Pop with 1 teaspoon of splenda to cut the diet

taste. I was 102 BG before dinner and 112 BG after dinner and i " m

full.

I also made homemade icecream for Labor Day - Vanilla. It only

called for 1/3 cup sugar. I used half and half instead of heavy

cream and I ate 1/2 cup with 1 squirt of hershey's chocolate last

nite and my sugars were 115. God is good he gave me something that

won't kill me outright, lol. Now who knows tomorrow it might send it

sky high.

Okay I " m drifting....lol lol