Question:
Has anybody ever ordered from Diabetic Dreams.com

they sell gourmet sugar free cakes and they're really expensive and I don't want to waste my money if they aren't good???    — TotallyTori (posted on September 18, 2003)

September 18, 2003
Why are you even "thinking" about cookies? All I think about is protein, water and exercise and I am not happy with my weight loss. If I thought about cookies or even tried to eat any I am SURE everything would go straight to the devil for REAL!!! Don't even "think" cookie let alone by any! God Bless you in your journey!
   — Eleanore Davis

September 18, 2003
Please excuse the new postie. We all come around to confronting cravings sooner or later. :) I haven't tried the Diabetic Dreams but I do occassionally eat Murray's brand sugar-free cookies. They have some oreo-type cookies that are really good. I use a couple to make a cookies & cream protein shake sometimes.<p>The thing to remember is that "sugar free" does not mean "carb free" or "calorie free." It is okay to have if you can control your portions. I'm not saying this because I think YOU have a problem with this necessarily, but because sugar-free cookies have in the past been one of my "trigger foods," ones that I can't control my portions with.<p>Bottom line, the sugar free stuff made with Splenda is pretty awesome. The sugar-alcohol sweetened stuff is variable. Also sugar alcohols can cause gas/diarrhea and (for me, anyway) dumping. I have to limit consumption of sugar alcohol just like I do regular sugar. I would definitely check out the ingredient list pretty carefully before ordering. A cheaper solution might be the Murray's products. They are not very expensive and, at least in Houston, available at most grocery stores.
   — ctyst

September 18, 2003
My caution, too, is to assess what you get for the calories it costs you. I know that sometimes the best thing to do is to give in, just a little bit, to a craving to make it go away. Sometimes fighting a craving only leads you to eating other junk as a substitute, and then you still have the craving, and eventually give in, only maybe more because now you're mad and frustrated about having eaten all that other stuff to try to substitute for the craving. However, I have tried very hard to fight cravings for sweets, and the longer I resist, the easier it's getting. Now, I'm only five and a half months out, so my story might change, but I know that giving into a sweets craving by having sugar free cake will make the next step to real cake that much easier. If I can avoid cake all together, I am better off. That's one reason I won't eat Detour protein bars: they're billed as "just like a Snicker's". If I get the taste of a Detour bar (and if it really tastes like a Snicker's), then it's just too short a jump from "just like a Snicker's" to a Snicker's. Assess if you are the same as me in this regard, and decide if having sugar free cake will make the step to real cake too easy.
   — Vespa R.

September 18, 2003
Well, as far as calories this place prides itself on being low-cal as well as sugar free and low in carbs, so that is not my concern my concern is the quality of the food.
   — TotallyTori