Hi there. I'm sure you knew that too many sugar free treats cause a laxative effect. Sounds like you were miserable. I know it's hard to give up things you love. I miss the sugar in regular cokes but had to give them up. Almost used to the diet soda now so I think I'll survive. I hope you have a good rest of the week!

sugar alchohols can do that...also warning ! - just because it says "sugar free" does not mean you can eat a whole bunch or more than the portion...they still have carbs...carbs are sugars and many times sugar free items have more carbs than if you ate just regular

Yes I was warned about that - I make myself chocolate fudge which is really yummy but I limit myself to 2-4 pieces (depending on the size of the pieces) a day - no more. It is so nice to have a treat though.

Hope that you are over your problem Tugboat and hopefully this will act as a reminder to the rest of us.

I bought some sugar free mints and they have a warning on the packet about the laxative effect if you eat too many. Never been game to try that out LOL

yummy fudge ....Hello I am a chocoholic ROFL but I even count M & Ms and do not eat it every day

I get so sick to my stomach if I eat sugar-free and I do get the cramping. We talked about this in class today, and was told of you want a piece of cookie-2 oreos are 1 carb. I would rather eat 2 oreos than sugar free.

Welcome AmazinBlue!!! Don't feel too overwhelmed, actually, think of this as something that you can beat and you will get there. I think that you will find that this is a really great group of people here. Everyone cares and people give great advice!!!! Don't worry if you ask questions, we all do and we all want for people to feel better, the only silly questions are the ones you never ask! I am lary and if you ask people, I am one of the kewl kids here :). I was diagnosed in June of 2000 and decided to ignore my diabetes, in June of 2009, I ended up in hospital and had to have about half my left foot amputated because of complications. The one thing it did was to strengthen my resolve to try to help others with this disease!

If you want, I have a website where you can enter your blood glucose numbers from your monitoring, it is a free site and you can find it at http://pcmdr.ca it is accessible using your cell phone or your computer. We are currently working at putting into place an exercise log as well as a food log. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Cheers,

lary

Heya, alot of sugar free treats also contain very high fat content. I was almost tempted to buy some sugar free chocolate couple days ago, read the label and it said like 25g of fat 12g of that was saturated per 100g, and it cost almost $5 and was like 125gm. Couldn't bring myself to buy it!!! From the sounds of things with the laxitive effects it wouldn't be a good idea....

Yes Angel, it is much easier to just learn to eat the other sparingly...I am beginning to think the sugar free foods are just a big hype to get people to buy them but everyone should learn to read the labels, some are scarey

Moderation sugar free or not:)

I am so sorry, but you will learn what and what not to eat..we all have to figure it out. Hope you are feeling better.