You Ate WHEN?

Dear JG,

Two suggestions. First, to eat a bigger dinner, so you won't get hungry later.

Second, to eat a very low-carb diet. With you you won't have hunger pains even when you eat very little. I follow both strategies and know they work.

Best regards,

David

Maybe it's true as far as weight gain goes......BUT

eating late plays havoc with your blood glucose during

the whole night and may even cause the "dawn" phenomenon.

This is  important since your night BGs will have a

big impact  on your A1C. Don't forget the hours involved

here- about  1/3 of the 24 of the day.

                                              JG 

I don't understand how merely eating late inherently "plays havoc with your blood glucose levels".

What if I eat low or no carb foods?  Do you have any studies to cite that confirms what you say?

My original request to David was for his suggestion on what

we could possibly eat at night that would NOT affect our

BGs for the whole night and still provide a "sense" of being

satisfied and make those hunger pangs go away. Alas -he only

suggested a bigger low-carb dinner!

If you have such suggestion on that, I would like to hear eat(it)

(provided it's not fish or meat).But it's been my experience that

eating anything more than a single bite (ie. low carb AND light)

will bring your middle-of-the-night BGs  up( yes I have measured those) . Remember, for 8 hours after eating those things you are

getting absolutely NO exercise (except breathing), and in the

morning you will not like your BG level.

                             Thanks

                              JG

I struggle with the dawn phenomenon in which my fasting blood sugars are always

much higher in the morning.  I found that if I eat a can of Amy's Organic

Lentil and Vegetable Soup for dinner, my fasting blood sugar will be under 100

(or just very slightly over 100) the next morning.  Haven't the foggiest idea why

or how.  I just know it to be true for me.  perhaps the fiber in the lentils?  Also

lentils are less inflammatory than other beans/legumes.

Glad you found something that helps-

Your problem might be WHAT you eat at dinner AND later, especially if you eat quite late.  You should compare your BG right before going to bed, with the morning one. You may find the two to be similar (not that far apart).

If so, then you have to control what you eat and when you eat dinner so that those BGs dont get out of wack- good luck.

                                        JG

there are 3 issues here: 1- we aint monkeys

2- we aint monkeys that have had our ovaries taken out

3- we snack at nite- i presume this to be in addition to daytime feeding, whereas it's not clear that the monkeys were not eating a baseline amount regardless of time

i think the common sense problem is that we tend to snack at nite, after we've already eaten our day meals, which leads to weight gain- the other problem is that we are more insulin resistant at nite (from circadian rhythm), so it's not an optimal time to snack- my opinion is that the largest meal of the day should be lunch, with not alot of CHO at nite

A good night sleep goes a long way to maintaining good health

overall- maybe even maintaining a healthy weight. But I think

when it comes to diabetes we have to study people's behavior,

rather than "related" species. I have never seen an obese monkey- they tend to be a bit more active than most of us humans.

                                  JG