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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carpetsalesman" data-source="post: 2344739" data-attributes="member: 526513">Well I tried stuffing myself with carbs anyway to test the theory - about 100g over the course of the evening.  Peanuts and dried figs.  Went to bed at 8.5, woke up in the middle of the night just the same.Theory busted.  But I suppose it gave me another datapoint on the effect of carbs - 4.9 to 8.5 after two hours and recovered to almost normal FBG (5.7) overnight.  Not great, not terrible.I think MrsA2 is right that quality/quantity of sleep is definitely a significant factor somehow but whether it's cause or correlation I don't know.  But it doesn't seem like we can influence it so not worth spending time on.Thanks for the tip on magnesium I'll give it a try, I would have thought I got enough via diet but it can't hurt as an experiment.Thanks all.</blockquote>

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