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Pumper_Sue
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There's nothing to stop you injecting to cover the extra carbs, or even eating later 4.30 is a tad early for an evening meal.
4 meals a day nope I normally eat two and if I can't be bothered then I have one.
4 meals a day nope I normally eat two and if I can't be bothered then I have one.
Kaylz
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Always been the same time we have tea with my grandad and before he retired many years ago that was when he got in from work most of the time so it's always stuck x
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The beauty of mealtime insulin is that you can eat as many meals as you want, whenever you want, and just take your insulin for it. Having said that, I'm always a bit careful about eating late before bed, because it means you are going to sleep with short acting insulin still active, so when I do it, I make sure I stick to something tried and tested like toast, where I'm sure of my carb count. I don't like experimenting with something I've got to guesstimate the carbs for in case I overdo it and end up hypo at 2am!
trophywench
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Chance would be a fine thing! What a luxury!
Since I was 11 I've never had the opportunity to eat at 4.30. Senior school - half an hour away on a good day when you could get on a bus quickly - didn't finish until 4.20pm anyway then from wherever you happened to be on the campus it could take 10 mins walk to even get to the bus stop. Then I always had fulltime jobs either finishing at 5pm or 5.30pm - most of which were in Birmingham, a good 45 minutes away, often up to 90 minutes, once you'd walked to the bus, train or carpark.
So dinner at night has never been before 6.30pm at the very earliest - often later.
Since I was 11 I've never had the opportunity to eat at 4.30. Senior school - half an hour away on a good day when you could get on a bus quickly - didn't finish until 4.20pm anyway then from wherever you happened to be on the campus it could take 10 mins walk to even get to the bus stop. Then I always had fulltime jobs either finishing at 5pm or 5.30pm - most of which were in Birmingham, a good 45 minutes away, often up to 90 minutes, once you'd walked to the bus, train or carpark.
So dinner at night has never been before 6.30pm at the very earliest - often later.
Kaylz
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When I was at high school we finished at 3:40 with a 20-25 minute walk home, I used to work in the pub across the top of the brae from my grandads so if I'd been on from opening I got to nip across for my tea, unfortunately I don't work at the moment so it stil sticks although if I can find a job in this small town - really only small shops and pubs it's mostly shift work so would probably still manage haha x
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