If you’re dealing with diabetes, check out our conversation this week. Since both of us are dealing with it, understanding diabetes and how to control it can save you money and save your life.

Our other big topic is what we’re going to do now that things are opening up with the vaccination. Alan has it but Stephen hasn’t yet and we have plans of things to do.

Transcript:

Stephen 0:01

Do you like Dr. Pepper?

Alan 0:43I really do. Is there too much of it in evidence around the trash? Can that kind of thing? Is that the Yes,

Stephen 0:52cycle.

Alan 0:53It’s, in fact, Tuesday is our trash day. And so all of that goes out. But I do work myself through a two liter a day. You know, and so they kind of stack up,

Stephen 1:02you still have your teeth. That’s amazing.

Alan 1:05You know why? Because they use a straw. It’s kind of I don’t think it’s only a rationalization, I think it really is that I haven’t browned my teeth or made them fall out. Because of diet. Dr. Pepper, I know that there are better things for me that I could be drinking. And yet at least it’s sugar free. And at least it’s one of those things that out of all the things I’m going to have to eventually give up to be a perfect aesthetic diet guy, it’s going to be the last thing to go. Kelly and I laugh about this all the time, every day, if you like her particular coffee and my particular diet, Dr. Pepper, you get something that you really love every single day. And it’s not heroin, it’s

it could be worse.

Stephen 1:53Even though, okay, so we both have diabetic problems. And we really shouldn’t be drinking the sugary drinks, and they’re not good for anybody really, um, and the diet stuff, at least doesn’t spike your sugar, it does still have calories. So it still adds to your weight, which affects your diabetes. But also, I’ve seen several studies saying that the chemicals they use to sweeten those, they make it so it makes you want more and that makes you hungrier so you actually have to fight eating more and taking in more calories when you’re drinking the diet drinks. So

Alan 2:32I I’ve read studies but not all in that direction. You know, the the most suspicious studies say right, yes, whatever you have with aspartame and stuff like that. And, and I think my mistake obviously this, I am not a great example because I’ve been drinking diet soda since college. You know what I mean? So we’re talking like 40 years, and it hasn’t had a horse I’m heavier than I should be. But I’m not as if I had been drinking sugary soda all

Stephen 3:02the big calm beer belly that’s three times bigger than the rest of your body.

Alan 3:06Exactly that and back when I was drinking, like you know, a big gulp every night you know in college conveniently I was always up until one and two in the morning because I was computer science major was and you needed to have that extra burst of caffeine. At least he didn’t need it but I sure got used to it I needed to be whatever that little bit of acceptable drug that caffeine is it sure helped me in mental Christmas and I noticed that I had to do it kind of low dose This is such a weird, druggie conversation. I did try like no dose I tried it one time for finals. And it made me so jittery and wrong you know my mouth got all the over caffeine aspects were there that it was just I can’t do a burst like that. I need to just kind of have a saline drip or something like that.