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Message: <blockquote data-quote="michaeldavid" data-source="post: 507028" data-attributes="member: 57211">Thanks for your help, Omar101.But what is primarily meant by 'normal eating', in the acronym DAFNE, is surely the eating of normal meals at normal mealtimes. (Though I agree with you, the food such normal meals consist of - here in the West - is unhealthy, not least for diabetics.) And it's the meals, especially any significant late evening meal, that I tend to avoid. (I can readily adapt if I want to; though for the sake of sleeping safely, I will always avoid late evening meals, and associated insulin injections.)I never eat a normal breakast. (Though I can easily go in for a brunch.) And I'll pick up here on a point made by Phoenix. Not long after I was first diagnosed 30 years ago, I returned to work as a motorcycle messenger in London. And especially in the mornings, I ate then as I do now: I largely tend to graze. (I soon discovered that any significant breakast made my blood sugar rocket.) And one can easily do that, even when working on a motorbike - sometimes in the wet. (One can also easily test one's blood sugar regularly.)Injecting insulin is intrinsically dangerous. But I take issue with 'reckless', Omar101.When I was first diagnosed, I tended to keep my blood sugar quite a bit higher than I do now. For it was very much more difficult to manage, not least because then there were ONLY visually read strips: there were no meters.It was only a few years ago that I discovered the stabilising effect, on my blood sugar, of rye bread. I found that it enabled me to safely maintain my blood sugar at near normal levels at all times. (I'm relaxed about slightly high readings first thing, but it's almost never in two figures at any time.) You will remember, Omar101 and XIX, I asked you about this effect.It seems to provide a kind of ballast, which lasts late into the evening. (I don't eat any rye bread after 4pm, or my blood sugar would tend to rise in the evening and overnight.)Before, having a severe waking hypo was like falling from a cliff. Now, at worst, it's more like stepping over the crest of a windswept sand dune: I get a good chance to climb back up.Incidentally, I am myself an effectively continuous blood glucose monitor. But I find that an average of around once per waking hour is enough.</blockquote>

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