Do most people eat on a schedule? I find I have no flexibility as far as meal times, but, it may be because I was recently diagnosed.
I am not sure what you are asking. I don't know what type of diabetes you have but as a diet controlled type 2, I have breakfast, lunch and dinner the same as always, I just eat different things. I could eat at different times but I don't need to.Do most people eat on a schedule? I find I have no flexibility as far as meal times, but, it may be because I was recently diagnosed.
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And can you tell is a bit more on why you have no flexibility in meal times? Are you on medication?
No. I may have something around 1-2pm and then a more substantial meal about 7-8pm, sometimes later. Sometimes nothing mid-day. I don't snack - can't recall the last time I felt hungry.Do most people eat on a schedule? I find I have no flexibility as far as meal times, but, it may be because I was recently diagnosed.
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86 (4.7mmol) isn’t a dangerous level for T2 not on hypo causing meds. However if you have been acclimatised to higher levels pre-diagnosis then that would explain your body “panicking” about lower than expected levels and giving you the warning signs of a hypo. Known as a false hypo. As your body gets used to lower levels it will stop overreacting and readjust to the new better levels.Not sure why it's a link. Not on any meds. My endo said to eat at the same time every day. Due to my dysautonomia, I can't tell if I'm hungry or not so I've eaten periodically throughout the day even before I was diagnosed with T2D. Now with the T2D, I eat based on my meter and try to do it before I become dizzy.
I ate a good breakfast at 7:30am. Fasting glucose was 120. Now at 9:30am my BS is 108 and dropping. I'm not hungry, but, I feel the need to eat again to keep the blood sugar up because I'm feeling dizzy. This continues all day so there is no real three meals and two snacks (if needed) routine. Yesterday, I decided to see how low the blood sugar would go and it went to 86 before I had a snack to stop the dizziness. It seems the more you eat, the more you're on this roller coaster of blood glucose.
You becoming dizzy at a 86 is likely a false hypo, and a true one shouldn't happen when you're on nothing, or metformin only. If you were on gliclazide or insulin or something, a hypo could occur, but on no medication it'd be highly unlikely unless you suffer from reactive hypoglycemia, which the numbers don't seem to indicate. Your body isn't used to being in the normal range (And I'm sure someone'll kick my behind if I got the conversion wrong), so it freaks out. Best thing to do then is just have some protein rather than carbs to keep the dizzy spell at bay. That reminds me... Do you have enough salt, or do you use blood pressure medication? Just wondering.Not sure why it's a link. Not on any meds. My endo said to eat at the same time every day. Due to my dysautonomia, I can't tell if I'm hungry or not so I've eaten periodically throughout the day even before I was diagnosed with T2D. Now with the T2D, I eat based on my meter and try to do it before I become dizzy.
I ate a good breakfast at 7:30am. Fasting glucose was 120. Now at 9:30am my BS is 108 and dropping. I'm not hungry, but, I feel the need to eat again to keep the blood sugar up because I'm feeling dizzy. This continues all day so there is no real three meals and two snacks (if needed) routine. Yesterday, I decided to see how low the blood sugar would go and it went to 86 before I had a snack to stop the dizziness. It seems the more you eat, the more you're on this roller coaster of blood glucose.
You becoming dizzy at a 86 is likely a false hypo, and a true one shouldn't happen when you're on nothing, or metformin only. If you were on gliclazide or insulin or something, a hypo could occur, but on no medication it'd be highly unlikely unless you suffer from reactive hypoglycemia, which the numbers don't seem to indicate. Your body isn't used to being in the normal range (And I'm sure someone'll kick my behind if I got the conversion wrong), so it freaks out. Best thing to do then is just have some protein rather than carbs to keep the dizzy spell at bay. That reminds me... Do you have enough salt, or do you use blood pressure medication? Just wondering.
You don't feel hunger, but you know what? If someone fasts for a few days, they don't feel hunger either. Eating once or twice a day like some here do (yours truly included) is called intermittent fasting and is one of the tools to keep blood sugars in the normal range and lose weight in the process. Just make sure the meals you do have are nutrient dense. Your body can up blood glucose itself if it really needs to through a liver dump, so you're not likely to faceplant if you don't eat every few hours.
Good luck eh.
Jo
I strongly believe (in the absence of any other medical conditions that necessitate it of course), that a diabetes regime that involves 'having to eat at set times' or 'regularly' or 'must have carbs in it' is very poor advice from a medical professional. Yes, this may help alleviate a particular problem but that is no solution on a longer term basis. How on earth can it help when you have a condition where eating raises your glucose levels, medication lowers them so the advice is then to eat more to match the meds and then take more meds to match the food you're eating to match the meds!