Even before I was diagosed as a diabetic I never wanted to eat during the day. Once it got past five o'clock in the evening though, I would become very hungry and want to eat everything in sight. I still feel like eating the same way but I have found that if I don't eat a lot of food at night my blood sugars are better in the morning and I have more energy, so I force myself to do so for my own good.
The problem is that even if I don't eat at night, I still have no desire to eat during the day. The idea of breakfast makes me sick. I feel full in the morning. Does anyone else have this kind of eating pattern? What do you think causes me to eat this way?
As long as readings are good and A1Cs are okay, is it a problem, do you think?
I have that same problem. Secret only to be shared by the community here! I know it’s not good but I always try and make myself eat at certian times. If no more than a bite at those times.
I think it is important even if your A1C stays in a decent range.
I used to never have breakfast, and was more of an evening person when it came to eating… but I think that, unless I was working third shift or something, that was a really not good thing for me. Once I was diagnosed, I got serious about having breakfast. Depending on the day, I may have a very, very light breakfast… and that’s fine. My tummy can get very irritated sometimes if I eat too early. I haven’t really felt it these days much, and who knows if it was related to high BG… but I was always nauseated to no end if I had breakfast too early. Now, I just eat enough to stabilize morning BG, and just leave it at that. Doesn’t need to be a huge food production for me all the time… Most of the time I have two rye wasa crackers (the only ones that won’t spike me) with cream cheese, or something. Works for me.
I’m not a morning person & never ate breakfast before being diagnosed. The thought of eating a big breakfast, or any breakfast made me queasy. I quickly found that if I didn’t eat something, my BG soared. A continuation of dawn phenomenon. So, I forced myself to eat breakfast. Didn’t take long to get used to it. I don’t eat lunch often. Guess I flipped skipping one meal for another:)
I think we have different clocks of when we’re hungry.
Im with the rest. Breakfast was 3am when I was younger (ok really late dinner) and never until long after waking up. I wake with coffee now and usually eat 3 hours later. That keeps me full for hours.
I am a night owl too. If you are one, this might be one of the reasons why you do this. There is nothing wrong with it (but yes, I know that society makes us think there is something wrong with us if we are night owl and that we should change our circadian rhythms and force ourselves to be morning people). People who are night owls vs. people who are morning larks (or even those that are inbetweeners - they call them hummingbirds!) have a different body temperature at different times of day and the internal sleep clocks are different - it also has to do hormones being releases along with these difference. (I forget what it is but I can look it up if you want).
I do best on a late schedule. I am more awake at night than in the morning. I eat my biggest meal at night around 9ish. And I am rarely hungry in the afternoon but I know I need to eat something so I have small lunch and snacks.
I eat late too. I eat a pretty light breakfast. Toast and a cappucino type of drink.
If I didn’t have diabetes, my perfect schedule would be to eat a large brunch around 11am ish and than have no lunch or afternoon eating and than have a big dinner later like 8 or 9 and than I stay up until after midnight.
Right now, I eat a light breakfast at 10 and than because I don’t eat that much in the morning I am hungry in the afternoon more so I eat more snacks. But I still love my late dinner. 5 or 6 is too early for dinner if you ask me. My parents eat dinner at around 4or 5 - ugh.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with this. I really think it is just that your body runs on a different schedule. I prefer this sort of schedule myself - not everyone likes the morning.
It is about a eating disorder called NES - called Night Eating Syndrome. I had never heard of it before so I don’t know how valid it is. It actually talks about the levels of insulin in the morning that is supposed to stimulate us to eat in the morning but obviously we as diabetics don’t have that!
Not saying this is what might be your issue but read over it and see if it is sounds like you.
For me, I personally do not think there is anything wrong with prefering to mostly eat at night (although to keep your body going I would at least have some small snacks through out the day). If you are a person who is more active or awake during the later hours, I think it makes total sense that you would prefer to be hungry at night.
Oh, the hormones is called cortisol and the early birds have a higher level of it in the morning than we night owls and we night owls have a higher level of melatonin in the morning and our body temperatures are highest around 8pm.
I’ve always been what you would call a grazer type of eater - and for me - breakfast makes me gag. I can usually manage a coffee (Americano) in the a.m. - generally don’t get hungry or want to eat until noon time. I eat when I have to, and luckily since being on the pump (went back on it yesterday -after 5 months hiatus) - I find I now don’t have to"eat to the insulin" - but I did have it perfected with MDI - so either way really works for me. BTW, I’ve been told off by many medical dudes over the years that this is not good (D2’s are the worst for telling me that I’m doing myself harm - I just smile - and tell them politely that I am fine andthis is the way I handle my eating"). I’ve been T1 for 43 years - have A1C of 5.9% -so I guess I must be doing something right.
As a retired Registered Nurse, I worked the night shift for most of my 47 year career. Sleeping during the day and working at night messes up not only your system but your Diabetic needs. The hardest part was retiring and the new habits of eating and Insulin schedule, but wanting to live will encourage you to succeed. Once off night shift I started breakfast in small portions with lunch more like a snack (yogurt with fruit), then supper was a challenge fixing supper for the family. But with encouragement for family and suggestion from former nurses who were Diabetics I MADE IT. Sounds like you need smaller portions during the day to handle your BG’s than work on portions sizes and carbs at night with a snack later if allowed. It will take work and errors, but you can do it. Set you a carb. or calorie goal for each, then break then down for meals and use what maybe left for a bedtime snack. Exercise will help also with lowering BG totals. Basically, you need to hang in there and develop a plan that works for you. Good luck if you need help I am only a message away.
I guess Im an oddity? LOL I have the most appetite in the morning. Most of my carb intake is allotted on breakfast too. Probably because of childhood training and activities, I have always had breakfast…even before D diagnosis. More or less on the same time everyday since…hmmm…forever! Most of my activities and exercises are also in the morning…so I guess like clockwork I get hungry by noon. Before diagnosis, I hardly take any snack in between…however now I manage to snack a bit (or else my bg dips to the 60’s…something I found out the hard way) …Another oddity is that I do not get hungry late nights… My last food intake is dinner. Until I got diagnosed with D…then I had to eat snacks in between dinner and bedtime.
Ive got a similar eatting pattern but for me its often about 2.30-3.00pm till im ready to eat.
It’s nearly 2.00pm here and Ive only just finished breakfast (which I forced myself to eat before I was ready to, as I have some meds Im meant to be taking with food first thing in the morning. When I eat is really stuffing up all my medication schedule).
Thought of eatting too early often makes me feel sick (maybe in my own case its due to having high insulin levels in the mornings?.. so maybe my body automatically wants to wait till its down from eatting the night before before I want more food??).
I dont know why Im like I are but many of my hormones are screwed up… eg I have abnormally low cortisol and also must have low melatonin levels (I take melatonin to help me sleep otherwise I cant)… so I guess my body isnt having the normal bio-rythms with things so maybe that is affecting when I want to eat?
I always ate cereal when I was younger. I kind of backed off breakfast for a long time when I was plagued by DP, but would bolus and crash out and then have like granola bars and yogurt, tons of carbs. That worked ok A1C wise for me but I gained quite a bit of weight. These days, I like to have eggs and maybe a piece of (12G) toast and that seems to 1) get me going, perhaps as much from paying attention to cooking as any sort of metabolism thing and 2) get me going until lunch. I think that if I won the lottery, I’d eat more and eat later, at like 10:00. When we do 9:00 or 10:00 brunch on the weekends, I like that a lot but it doesn’t work out that way that much.
I totally agree with wanting to eat everything in sight at night. The pantsometer keeps me from donig it. I think about it a lot though?
