Type 2 diabetes: 10-hour eating window may improve blood sugar

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pinkjude said:
I eat my evening meal at 8pm and dont eat again until about 9.30 am
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As a type 1, I've always thought it a good strategy to try and eat dinner no later than 6pm, not for fasting purposes, but to allow the last bolus dose to run out before bed, allowing any corrections (if at all necessary) to be made before sleep and to help worry less during the night.
 
When I was a child, 'Time restricted eating' was just normal life. Breakfast at 8, lunch at 1, tea at 6pm, end of. It’s what my parents and all my friends' parents did as a matter of course. No between meal snacks, and no bedtime snacks.
 
Robin said:
When I was a child, 'Time restricted eating' was just normal life. Breakfast at 8, lunch at 1, tea at 6pm, end of. It’s what my parents and all my friends' parents did as a matter of course. No between meal snacks, and no bedtime snacks.
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Have you been at perfect weight all your life with this?
 
Nayshiftin said:
Have you been at perfect weight all your life with this?
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No, because in adolescence I started comfort eating, behind my parents backs, at all times of the day, and put on three stones. (Which caused even more stress). I only lost them when I went to uni on a limited budget, in a hall of residence that provided breakfast and evening meal, and any other food I would have to buy myself. Being an 18 yr old living away from home, with plenty to occupy me and plenty of interesting ways to spend the little money I had, I didn’t spend it on food! (It also helped that the tensions that caused the comfort eating were removed once I was away from home. The only time it reared its head again was when I was having to act as carer for my parents in their extreme old age, and the old tensions resurfaced).
But generally, when I have my last meal at 6pm, (which suits my insulin intake as it means I don’t go to bed with fast acting on board) and don’t eat again til 8 or 9 am the next morning, my weight stays pretty stable.
 
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Robin said:
No, because in adolescence I started comfort eating, behind my parents backs, at all times of the day, and put on three stones. (Which caused even more stress). I only lost them when I went to uni on a limited budget, in a hall of residence that provided breakfast and evening meal, and any other food I would have to buy myself. Being an 18 yr old living away from home, with plenty to occupy me and plenty of interesting ways to spend the little money I had, I didn’t spend it on food! (It also helped that the tensions that caused the comfort eating were removed once I was away from home. The only time it reared its head again was when I was having to act as carer for my parents in their extreme old age, and the old tensions resurfaced).
But generally, when I have my last meal at 6pm, (which suits my insulin intake as it means I don’t go to bed with fast acting on board) and don’t eat again til 8 or 9 am the next morning, my weight stays pretty stable.
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Thank you for sharing that
 
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