I know that this seems weird. But I'm a diabetic type 1 and I have been for one year. Beofre I was diagnosed I ate mass amounts of sugar each day. Since I became diabetic I cut down. For example I just ate 4 packs of tic tacs in ten minutes. My blood sugars are always high but I can't stop. I'm also lazy so I don't even bother with insulin. Does anybody have some advice on how to stop the addiction?

Stab yorself in the arm every time you want sugar. That'll teach you.

It probably will lol. But I'm going for a less painful approache. I think I'm going to end up working this one out by myself :)

My answer was metaphorical. If you can handle your sugar and still manage to stay in the safe zone, i.e by keepig check, then that's okay I suppose but an addiction to sugar is still not healthy and you should try to cut down. If you seem to be fine with how you are now then fair enough but if you want change, it won't just hit you in the face so work at it. Good luck.

What about just reducing the amount of sugar you eat slowly? Like cut down by a chocolate bar a week or something?

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Originally Posted by Jamienra

my blood sugars are always high but i can't stop. im also lazy so i dont even bother with insulin. does anybody have some advice on how to stop the addiction?

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If you really are Type I diabetic (i.e. your pancreas has completely stopped making insulin) and you "don't even bother with insulin", your remaining life will be short and miserable. Kidney failure will probably be what kills you, and it's not a pretty way to go.

You better snap out of your stupor and pay attention IMMEDIATELY before irreversible damage is done. Eating a lot of sugar makes it worse, but you could stop eating it altogether and it still wouldn't fix the problem. You need insulin or you will die. It's that simple.

Craving sweets when your surar was high was perfectly expected. I'm guessing you may not be type 1, but a type 2 needing insulin.

Refined sugars are going to have to go bye byes.

Do a search on "Gycemic index" and limit foods with a high index.

What's a typical days glucose value. Before breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime.

[QUOTE=KeepItSimpleStupid;1777195]Craving sweets when your surar was high was perfectly expected. I'm guessing you may not be type 1, but a type 2 needing insulin.
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I do actually do my insulin. Just not with the sweets. I do blood sugars three times a day and they are all ariubd about 13 - 15. I will do insulin with my sweets now. But I still crave sugar. I tried to cut down to at least one sweet a day. But its extremely difficult. Suar free sweets give a laxative effect as well :S. does anyone know of some sweets that I can cut down on which have very low sugars. IE. Below 10

Considering I had little else to do, I flicked through my old science books, and googled it

If you crave sugar there's not really much you can do, other than try to balance out fruit with sweets. The sugar in sweets is broken down almost immediately after you eat it and it sends your glucose levels soaring for a short while, but fructose, found in fruits, is broken down slower and keeps your glucose levels more stable, so if you reduce how much sugar you eat gradually then your glucose levels will reduce and the way fructose works, your glucose levels should stay relatively steady. This is taking into account that insulin breaks down any sugars you put in your body, be it sugar, sucrose, glucose, fructose etc.

I don't know how long it would take take, I mean glucose levels never stay exactly the same, and sometimes they can be really high and really low but I do know it took my grandad like 2 years to steady his glucose levels and he still gets hypos and stuff. And really this is all theoritical. I don't know if it would work as simply as I put it.

If you do want to reduce your glucose levels really you should speak to a doctor or dietitian because they know more than the paragraph which is mostly notes I'd scribbled down during a lecture when I was in yr 11.

Or diabetic sweets or sugar free stuff could help =S