Modify your eating times so that they jibe with your relatives'
How to survive the holidays with diabetes
The holidays can be a stressful time, even more-so if you have diabetes. Here are 10 tips for getting through the holidays with diabetes
3. Modify your eating times so that they jibe with your relatives'
Do your in-laws' meal schedules fly in the face of yours? Here's how to compromise: Say they wake up later than you do and serve breakfast at 10:30. Then they skip lunch and serve Christmas "dinner" at 3 p.m. To keep your blood sugar steady without overdoing it on calories, have an early-morning snack (such as a piece of whole-wheat toast) before your relatives rise and shine. Their late breakfast will count as your "real" breakfast, plus some of your lunch. Enjoy the 3 p.m. meal—but don't overdo it!—and have a small snack at around 8 p.m. Be sure to pack your monitoring equipment so that you can see how this work-around plan is affecting your blood sugar.
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