How to safely include a few sweets into your diet
Does this mean that a cookie is going to kill you? Of course not. And besides, you can easily tell if that cookie raised your sugar too high by checking your own blood sugar about 60 to 90 minutes later. Here are some ways to successfully build some sweets into your diet without blowing your nutrition plan:
* Eat the same fixed amount of sweet and then adjust the fast-acting insulin according to what this does to your post-meal sugar.
* Do everything in moderation: a cookie, a scoop of ice cream–not 5 cookies, etc.
In the end, the proof is in the pudding (or the bonbon is in the bloodstream). If your blood sugars are within the target range, if your hemoglobin A1c is good, then your eating habits are probably not hurting you. If you’re in poor control, though, a good place to start improving is to stay away from the sweets.
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