I definitely indulge sometimes. How can you not, especially when you live in a country with junk food everywhere you go?
I don’t indulge in junk food, my indulgences are more upmarket! My son is a chef and I know too many of the dodgy food practices that go into making junk food. Why would you eat sub standard food?
Ditto, pastelpainter. After all they call it “junk food” for a reason! Though when I was younger and said I didn’t eat junk food people would always think I was so disciplined and health conscious, when really I just thought the stuff was tasteless at best. The closest I ever came to fast food were things like pizza and burritos.(though I was pretty picky about where I’d get those too) Well now those days are gone too.
I see the ad for those blizzards on tv, it’s interesting how large they photograph it, not trying to appeal to sugar cravings are they! I used to like fresh fruit smoothies all frosty with chopped ice. It amazes me now that I could just cut up a whole basket of strawberries, bananas, mangos, etc, toss them in the blender and drink them down!
I second jrtpup’s “Heck yeah!”
I know what a blizzard is, but I have never had one.
Skor Blizzard!!! A naughty treat to be added to my list for my trip back home along with Poutine!!! If you don’t occassionally indulge in a few naughty treats than the diabetes has taken the simple joys from your life. The most beautiful thing about going on the pump last year has been learning how to properly extend a bolus so I can enjoy some of my indulgences without feeling like crap.;o)
Guilty today…BIG splurge. And BS is GREAT!! Ahhhhh, one Happy Woman 
As a newbie, Carol 1 depressed me with your attitude. My goal to to find support and and ways to be healthier. I’m in good health now Type 1 and epilepsy. I read all the other post and each had a supportive view for Mike and personal reason. Mike I’m very thin like you and my endo. says now that I have dropped from 13.7 in Jan. to 7.1 in June I should still carb he wants more carbs for weight gain. So an indulgence would be fine flow some of the people that have been diabetics for some time as how to monitor your sugars.
Umm…whole grains are healthy for diabetics?
Simple joys in life don’t necessarily have to be sugar! The world is full of carb free pleasures. Just saying.
Healthier than refined grains and lower in carbohydrates as they are higher in fiber.
Bambi, it’s not uncommon for any of us to get down now and again, but this is a great resource for knowledge to use to stay healthy and support to keep motivated. That’s what we’re all here for. Good luck to you.
This is more important for Type 2’s than Type 1’s. For many of us, it makes little difference in our carb spikes.
High carbs are still likely to spike blood sugar and dosing is less predictable. So I think increasing fat and protein would be more productive for weight gain in a diabetic than going high carb, because it would add extra calories without spiking blood sugar or making control difficult.
I’m a die hard carb whore…pardon the expression but I am what I am. I do lots of baking with almond flour, agave nectar and use skinny pasta & Shirataki noodles but sometime I got to have the nasty sugar blasting stuff. ;o)
That’s what I have noticed. I find a lot of times that “bad” stuff has a more predictable spike than the more natural type of whole grained stuff.
That is what I am thinking - I already have enough things that are hard to resist.
Kind of like when they tell you that a drink a day is good for your heart, but if you’re not a drinker, DON’T Start!
I better quit following this thread because everyone is making me want to start!
Well, my friend Woodfairy told me it’s a product of Dairy Queen, and I know EXACTLY where one is, but I HAVEN’T gone there. YET!