As far as diet soda I can't drink them. I just limit my intake of regular soda to a can a day and water the rest of the day. Your BS isn't abnormal though so I am sure that it is ok.

Hey there, Ray, the diet soda should be ok, and a beer every once in a while won't hurt. When you have a beer, make sure you have something to eat along with it otherwise the alcohol may drop your blood sugar. Please make sure that it is not every day once a week is what I do.

Rebecca, the regular soda is loaded in sugars and it would be really best if you did not drink it. Have you tried something like crystal light or one of the other sugarless powders that you add to water? I know that they are not the same as a soda, but the regular soda will play havoc with your blood sugars. Here is a little trick my sister gave me and that is to add one of these powders to soda water, you get the taste as well as the bubbles?

I think that John was right when he called me a party pooper!

cheers,

lary

it was not john it was me who called you party pooper , now that you made that blunder , it will cost you not only lunch , but dinner and the two day pass at diseny land ( just kidding )

ray

I don't drink much diet soda or juice with aspartame. If I drink too much, it bothers my bladder but I don't know about the BS.
If it doen'st bother you think way, I guess it would be okay, however, they were talking about diet drinks on the news last week and there was something about diet drinks that weren't good.

Doc told me to kick the diet soda habit. I'm trying, I'm trying. But there really is NOTHING good about them.

Ray - Chobani is great! I have it every morning for breakfast and sometimes at other times during the day. Best to buy the nonfat plain and add something to it - a bit of fresh fruit, cinnamon, something. I add a tbsp of low sugar preserves (apricot), a tbsp of ground flax seed oil, and cinnamon, and it's delicious and very filling. Chobani has more protein and many less carbs than regular yogurt. Not all Greek yogurts are made equal. I've found the two best as far as carbs and protein are Chobani and Fage.

oops - ground flax seed, not flax seed oil...

thanks so much for your reply , i will do the non fat plain chobani with cinnamon.

We got tired of the bought sodas so we bought ourselves a Soda Stream machine and make our own now.
A bit of an outlay but I worked it out and it saved us enough to recoup the cost in less that 12 months.

Ray your levels are great at 124 - just check the cans to make sure that there is no corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup as I got caught on that being in stuff when we were in the States some years ago.

I seriously don't think the diet soda has anything to do with the next morning numbers.

the morning numbers are more due to the dawn effect. try having greek yogurt or some other protein late at night to maybe help with the morning numbers

and I do have a couple of diet sodas, along with the water, etc

I've converted to Diet Dr. Pepper 10(I know,,,carbs) but I drink only 1 per day and alternate with Coke Zero(Won't quit them,,,don't try). I also drink Powerade Zero. They fruit flavored and are a good change. Otherwise, it's coffee, iced tea, or water.