Bed time hungries?

Kristin251

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I can't sleep without a snack before bed. Anyone else? What do you eat?
Is it a lantus thing?
 
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A small bit of cheddar cheese or a few pine nuts work for me. A couple of cheese biscuits if bedtime number justifies it.
 

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I've always hated going to bed hungry and it absolutely affects my sleep. I eat a large dinner which is usually enough to satisfy my, but sometimes I may have 1oz of pecans or something similar.
 
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I can't sleep without a snack before bed. Anyone else? What do you eat?
Is it a lantus thing?

Don't think its anything to do with lantus unless your bg levels are running low.

I stopped snacking between meals and eating supper around 7 years ago, evening meal see's me through to the morning and rarely feel hungry before bed, find if I do eat before bed it can lead to less predictable bg levels through the night.
 
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Kristin251

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Typically I go bed around 80 and wake up the same. I can not eat large meals because I can't digest them. If my stomach isn't happy I definately will not sleep. I have been having 1/3 grass fed hot dog and a few nuts the last few nights and it's helping. I also do this so I don't go lower than 80. I don't have any monitor but in the past I have woken up and taken it and I don't seem to have a lot of fluctuation at night. I can go to bed exhausted and 45 min later be wide awake and hungry. That's whybinwondered if maybe it's lantus. I am very insulin sensative. I'll keep doing this and see how it goes.
Thanks for all the replies
 

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I like flax seed crackers, they have barely any effect on BS.
 

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Hi if I am hungry at night and my BG readings are in range I will have a couple of rivitas or crispbread with cheddar chees thinly sliced. BG levels in morning ok. :happy:
 
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Supper is Crackerwheat (3) buttered with slices of Red Leicester Cheese around 11.30pm and my fastings are in the 5's. When I don't have supper my fastings are much higher around 7's.
 
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Slice of toast with butter and jam and ginger nut with tea. BG 7
Up at 6am. BG 6
This has been the pattern for about a month now.
 
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Supper is Crackerwheat (3) buttered with slices of Red Leicester Cheese around 11.30pm and my fastings are in the 5's. When I don't have supper my fastings are much higher around 7's.
Hi liam 1955, see you have changed your Avatar nice one :)
 

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Trying a cheese and cracker and a cup of tea again tonight.:happy:
 
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Hi ya ! I am ALWAYS hungry at bed time but if I eat anything apart from salad my fasting blood sugar is above 8. Thank you and have a nice day !!
 

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I am just trying to find something that keeps me from dropping on one unit lantus as stupid as that sounds. Last night ate a little bigger dinner to be a little higher at bed. 101 at bed, had a bite of hot dog and a celery stick with a swipe of peanut butter and woke at 78. I'm trying to wake in the 80' s and I tend to wake low 70's. I've tried no lantus but go up of course.
Sometimes I wonder how much lantus works on food and maybe I shouldn't eat but I don't sleep if I don't. Such a conundrum.
 

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Sounds delish but I can't do dairy. I would love cream cheese roll ups. I used to live on them. All mushed up on salami. Yummmmm