The other day when grocery shopping I had to stop in the middle of the frozen food department and test my blood sugar. I found myself having a hard time concentrating on what I was needing to pick up. BS 41.....So I click into recovery mode. I wondered slowly to the soda cooler at the check out to get a Pepsi or Coke to bring up my blood sugar and allow me to continue with my grocery shopping.
When I went to grab the Pepsi bottle, I notice a change in packaging. All silver lable, all blue able, all dark blue lable. What the heck is this? Nothing shouting out to me REGULAR PEPSI. I had to read the food lable and count the carbs to determine if it was the real stuff.
So the next time you are waiting to check out in line, reading the Magazine Trash, also check on the Pepsi Labeling. Can you tell the differance Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, or Pepsi Zero.
Also, remember to check out the carbs on the Food Lable before using it to recover on a Low.
Is there a Pepsi Zero? I’ve heard that Coke Zero is just the old formula for the old Diet Coke while the current Diet Coke is just the new formula. When I do drink diet soda these days, I pefer Coke Zero. If I’m low and only have soda as a go to, I grab red Coke.
I was told the same thing by a friend who worked for Coke. “Diet Coke” is “new” coke with artificial sweetener, and Coke Zero is coca-cola classis with artificial sweetener and a name conciously designed NOT to evoke “diet” to appeal to men. I love Coke zero, it tastes like a regular soda to me.
Yeah, I had to train myself to drink Diet Coke. It’s what comes out of the soda machine at work. Diet Pepsi is more tolerable for me than regular Pepsi.
LOL! We had been shopping for a couple hours(lots of walking) and my Hubby dropped finally me off at the grocery store tonight to pick up some items also. I started feeling a bit woosy, checked my sugar and it was 3.0(54). I just took a juice box out of my purse and 2 mini bars. It did the trick. For some reason I’ve never liked colas and I don’t normally drink pop.
I would never use a soda drink to recover from a low. It has only ordinary sugar. This will take much longer to be processed - especially for diabetics who are usually not very used to metabolize sugar. Then there is the amount to treat the low. How much is enough. Just half of the small bottle or all of it? The likelyhood to overtreat the low is just too high.
Conclusion for me: never leave home without glucose tabs!
Oh man I can never treat with a regular soda because it shoots me up way too high within like 15-20 minutes even if i’m in the 50’s.I like to use a half a tube of mini M&M’s.it’s 17 carbs and brings me up in 15 minutes and doesn’t raise me above my target range.Plus it lets me get the occasional chocolate fix. I also can’t use glucose tablets. I’d have to eat like 2 tubes of those things. I don’t know why,but they have never really had any effect on my sugars.
The chocolate comment is funny BUT no one should ever try to treat a low with chocolate! Just for the record: chocolate is very high in fat. The digestion will take hours and this is why chocolate is of no help with a BG of 41.
