{"id":146150,"date":"2010-01-06T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/carbohydrate-and-calories\/47313-sugar-alcohols.html"},"modified":"2010-01-06T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:08:28","slug":"sugar-alcohols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/146150","title":{"rendered":"sugar alcohols"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hey Gang-<\/p>\n<p>I was just recently diagnosed and I think I&#8217;ve done really well adapting to a low carb lifestyle.  I honestly don&#8217;t miss  or crave carbs so much as the inconvenience of eating around it (bread, pasta and potatoes were main stays for me in the PAST).<\/p>\n<p><b>At first,<\/b> I was SO restrictive I got too low.  Felt light headed and sick (although he met was REALLY making me sick initially).<\/p>\n<p><b>Next<\/b>, I simply didn&#8217;t know what to eat so I just didn&#8217;t eat much at all (not that difficult on met).<\/p>\n<p><b>So, I decided I needed to have so low carb snacks on hand<\/b> for convenience and versatility.  Well, I found all kinds of  low-carb, sugar free things (Sugar free Oreo&#8217;s who knew?)  its a whole new world for me as  I was a low fat eater for so long.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I notice that while many of these treats (including Atkins) say sugar free&#8230;there&#8217;s something called sugar alcohols.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I can&#8217;t tolerate them.  I ate very low carb yesterday but had a small glass of milk and two sugar free oreos after dinner and I was at 101 this am. How bad is that? I&#8217;ve been anywhere from 82-94.  I was at 103 on New Years Day but wasn&#8217;t too surprised by that considering how I indulged. <\/p>\n<p>I was surprised by the 101.  So sugar alcohol&#8230;bad.  Are &quot;sugar free&quot; and &quot;no sugar added&quot; things to avoid too?<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, lets here some folks faves for snacks, treats&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks as always, Tina<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Gang- I was just recently diagnosed and I think I&#8217;ve done really well adapting to a low carb lifestyle. I honestly don&#8217;t miss or crave carbs so much as the inconvenience of eating around it (bread, pasta and potatoes were main stays for me in the PAST). At first, I was SO restrictive I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}