@A DiabetesTeam Member we certainly will always face a number of stresses in our life, practically impossible to "remove the stressors".

But what we can do is undertake activities to try and alleviate the "effect" of some of them.

Every day I deal with my wife who because of Parkinson's is only "independently functional" for about 8 hours. For the rest of the time unless she is sleeping she needs care and assistance for something as simple as getting out of a chair.

So I do understand but we can still take "some time" for ourselves just to decompress.

When I put her to bed at 9 pm (and that is just like clockwork - doesn't vary) then I take the next "2 hours" just for myself. No work, no fixing something or cleaning something up - just totally unwind - yap a bit on here or watch a movie etc anything to take my mind off of "my situation".

Even take 10 minutes and go outside - just look around - forget about all your responsibilities just for that 10 minutes and let your mind drift to a better place. It really does wonders.

What can really put you under is when you totally focus on all those stressors "24 hours a day" - you really can escape "every day" for an hour or two, even if it's in small pieces, and keep your sanity.

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@A DiabetesTeam Member - No, it was as stated.

Eating a cookie before bed will raise your sugars AND result in the release of Bolus Insulin at that time. The sugars will be metabolized (unless you are producing zero insulin) and will be burnt off long before you get anywhere near the morning.

To illustrate that point I did some horsing around when I was wearing a CGM to show what happens even if you "blow your numbers out of range" very late at night before bed.

In the chart below you can see that a 12:30 am (so just after midnight - noted by the little apple icon) I purposely ate enough carbs (45 net) to put (me) out of range.

By 1:45 AM I was just on about 150 (8.9 mmols) - that caused the pancreas to release insulin (because the "food is present hormone" told it, I needed insulin), which it did - in fact maybe a little too much and by 4:30'ish AM, barely 2 hrs and 45 minutes later my blood sugar was "super low" at 52 (2.9 mmols).

It bounced back safely into the 70's (4's) as a result of something called the Symogyi Effect (that is supposed to happen to deal with a low when sleeping) and then my numbers slowly rose (hepatic fasting sugars) until I woke up just before 7 AM with an 88 (4.9)

So even eating 45 Carbs "after midnight" a mere 6 1/2 hours before I woke up not only "didn't carry any blood sugar overnight", I experienced a "hypo" a couple hours after eating that many carbs.

No cookie is going to "last" and effect your morning numbers unless you are making "zero insulin" yourself - the sugar from food just doesn't last that long in your system.

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Always, thanks Graham for the insightful information because you care is why you share. 😊
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Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏿🙏🏿

Good way to get your blood sugar down