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Exercise for T2 diabetics is most beneficial AFTER dinner, as this will help mitigate the blood sugar spike that can stick with you throughout the sleeping hours.]]
Much has been made of the “Mediterranean Diet”, but one traditional part of Mediterranean lifestyle (at least when I visited rural Italy) is that the main meal of the day is at noon. They have a light breakfast, a light evening supper, but the main meal is around noon, thus giving you the rest of the day to work off the blood sugar.
With so many of us working from home, this is more easily accomplished now.
Sounds like an interesting dietary plan. I would like to add that while exercising is healthy any time of the day, doing it closer to bed time is best for diabetics because the liver is producing glucose while we sleep, regardless of what you had for dinner. Most people don’t know this because you can’t check your BS while you sleep.
That has changed fairly recently, however, with glucose monitoring devices such as the Dexcom and Libre 2. I would recommend any diabetics here to check with your health insurance to see if either of those two devices are covered because they eliminate the need to poke yourself, as they continually monitor your glucose levels. I use the Libre 2 and it is fully covered by my health insurance and it has fixed my diet simply because it has allowed me to see what certain foods do to my glucose in real time, therefore I can adjust what I eat and what not to.
Don’t Italians take an afternoon nap?