Mnem, because of my diabetes, my coffee has Truvia and unsweetened almond milk in it. I have grown to quite like it. I put the leftover coffee into a large glass, adulterate it and let it chill in the fridge overnight. I will do what I need to get off my meds in the next 6 months, already had my Metformin reduced by half in the past 3 months and my A1c is 5.1.
As of a couple months before we left Canada, I'm still not diabetic; I'd done a week of morning/bedtime glucose and well normal. Of course I know that even if I'm not diabetic yet, at my weight and age I am on the waiting list; hence jumping back on the hard keto as it is the only diet I've ever been able to stay on long enough to actually lose an appreciable amount of weight.
At this point, losing the weight has to be priority one... I can deal with the other problems once I'm not staring down a very short and miserable existence of dialysis and congestive heart failure incursions.
I've tried almond milk and quite frankly, I'd rather give up coffee. I believe I'm allergic; it gives me cramps. I've been considering Stevia, but have been hesitant since a similarly bad experience with Agave. *blerk* That stuff is for people who don't like sweets in the first place.
mnem
Okay... so, last grocery shopping we did, I got a bag of the store-brand
Stevia sweetener. Tried it last night in my iced tea, and again this morning in my coffee.
The verdict so far:
It tastes like ass and saccharine2. Adding one tablespoon at a time, it did not make my coffee taste sweet, until at about 6 tablespoons it started to get worse as the saccharine-like aftertaste overwhelmed
everything.
Also, it it just plain a PITA to use; it doesn't dissolve well in cold or hot liquid, and if you accidentally inhale even a tiny bit while fighting the staticky bag, it burns in the nostrils something fierce.
At this point, I'm at the "
I'd rather give up coffee." stage with it. Especially annoyed at the wasted pitcher of tea.
That said... I did a little research, and it appears that
Stevia is not all the same. The stuff we bought is mixed with maltodextrin as a bulking agent, just like my Splenda product is. Truvia uses the sugar alcohol erythritol as a bulking agent instead. So I've got a bag of that coming via Amazon tomorrow for a side by side taste test.
While I'm not entirely sure that Truvia is entirely safe or even more safe than Splenda... it is at least entirely composed of materials known to occur in nature.
Yes, I know that is also true of Arsenic, Cyanide, and Botulinum toxin as well as a host of other deadly things. But
hopefully if I can stand it (Erythritol is known to cause bloating, gas and cramps, and sensitivity to it varies greatly from individual to individual), it will be
likelier safe than all the Aspartame I consume.
mnem
One step at a time...