| Do you know punctuality is one of the main keys to | | | | strength to face the start of your day. In a similar |
| success when you have type 2 diabetes. No, I don't | | | | fashion, both overeating and fasting can prompt large |
| mean showing up for your low-carb dinner date on | | | | and harmful changes in your blood sugar levels. |
| time. Planning meal times and meal arrangements... | | | | Eating at regular times: |
| even if you are a casual, Bohemian type otherwise, is | | | | - also makes it easier for you to manage your diet... |
| crucial. | | | | since you are breaking up your food into smaller |
| You need to be as regimented in your eating habits | | | | portions that you can keep a closer eye on |
| as a private in the Army. This means eating regularly | | | | - you can balance your diet more easily if you have |
| throughout your day, typically every three hours... | | | | regular, similar-sized meals, since you don't have to |
| meaning you take in around five smaller meals in | | | | make adjustments for large, medium, and small meals. |
| place of the usual three larger meals. You also need | | | | - you can also split up potentially "blood sugar level |
| to make sure that you do eat at these times... it is | | | | boosting foods" over the course of your day; |
| very disruptive to skip a meal and try to make it up | | | | combining them with other foods that tend to |
| later. | | | | suppress the effect of blood sugar with their protein |
| The reason for this is simple and rather | | | | (such as nuts, fish, or lean meat)Thus, although it is |
| straightforward: | | | | somewhat restrictive having to schedule your day |
| - if you spread your food consumption out over five | | | | around a series of small, punctual meals, this practice |
| regularly-spaced small meals per day, then you are | | | | is actually crucial to controlling and, hopefully, |
| also reaping the reward of lower blood sugar levels | | | | eventually overcoming your type 2 diabetes |
| from these smaller meals | | | | completely. |
| - this also avoids a sudden rush of sugar into your | | | | Controlling your diet is also made far easier by this |
| bloodstream from a large "dump of food"In other | | | | practice and you will easily see the effect of any |
| words, eating at regular times helps a type 2 diabetic | | | | changes you make: |
| maintain a steady controlled blood sugar level, which | | | | - in your food intake |
| will not only keep you healthier, but will also help you | | | | - exercise, or |
| to keep your energy levels high, prevent tiredness | | | | - medicationsBecause the background pattern of |
| and/or weakness. | | | | your blood sugar levels will be regularized... you will |
| The dawn phenomenon: when you wake up after | | | | see lower blood sugar levels as well as consistency. |
| fasting all night to find your blood sugar levels | | | | You will be able to see deviations easily as well. |
| astronomically high, illustrates why it's necessary to | | | | Eating regularly stabilizes your blood sugar, rather |
| eat at regular, frequent intervals throughout your | | | | than it rising in enormous surges and then plunging |
| day. The lack of food intake actually causes your | | | | into energy-draining troughs. |
| body to increase blood sugar to give you the | | | | |