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- Type of diabetes
- Prediabetes
- Treatment type
- I do not have diabetes
I've been prediabetic for several years and used to manage to keep to a healthy diet and my weight was within the perameters for my height or would veer towards being half a stone overweight at worse.
I started working on nights three years ago and I've gained 2 1/2 stone in weight. My body is unable to produce insulin at night and I'm finding it impossible to eat a healthily during nightshifts and often resort to snack foods. I've asked my GP for advice and he was unable to come up with anything other than that I need to think of a creative solution to the problem!!! My shifts are twelve hours long, so starvation is not an option.
As a consequence of working nights, my weightgain, my being too exhausted to exercise on my days off, and my also being a smoker, I now have sky-high blood pressure and feel like a ticking time-bomb. I've booked an appointment with the smoking clinic and I'm having to monitor my bp several times a day; but I dearly need help and advice over diet - what can I possibly eat at night which will sustain me and yet not add to the problem? I tried snacking on slices of cucumber tonight and that was tedious.
BTW both my late parents were type 2 diabetics, and my father was on tablets for hypertension all his adult life.
I started working on nights three years ago and I've gained 2 1/2 stone in weight. My body is unable to produce insulin at night and I'm finding it impossible to eat a healthily during nightshifts and often resort to snack foods. I've asked my GP for advice and he was unable to come up with anything other than that I need to think of a creative solution to the problem!!! My shifts are twelve hours long, so starvation is not an option.
As a consequence of working nights, my weightgain, my being too exhausted to exercise on my days off, and my also being a smoker, I now have sky-high blood pressure and feel like a ticking time-bomb. I've booked an appointment with the smoking clinic and I'm having to monitor my bp several times a day; but I dearly need help and advice over diet - what can I possibly eat at night which will sustain me and yet not add to the problem? I tried snacking on slices of cucumber tonight and that was tedious.
BTW both my late parents were type 2 diabetics, and my father was on tablets for hypertension all his adult life.