[moorejames]

I recently spent a week in Hawaii.

Ignoring the fact that I participated heavily in the "eat, drink and be merry" portion of the program (which screwed up my numbers somewhat) I found it interesting that the time zone change seems to have affected my dawn phenomenon.

With the 6 hour tome difference, I was going to bed/getting up at times very different from what I was used to.

Once we got back and I got back on the work schedule, my fasting BG #'s have never been better. I've been under 100 FBG (low 90s) ever since getting back. Normally, I struggled to stay around 112, prior to the trip.

Just wonder if anyone else had notices a change in DP when you switched time zones.

I'm thinking the week of the earlier time zone somewhat "reset" my internal clock.

I don't test enough to see if I'm getting a DP effect at a different time of day, however.

I expect things will "revert back to the mean" at some point and I'll be back where I was.

Maybe I just need to spend a week in Hawaii once a quarter in order to keep the DP at bay. Yeah, that's it... I'll get a prescription for it...


jim

[Cyborg]

That's really not that much of a difference in bg numbers...

I have extreme DP and I have never noticed a difference when going from one coast to the other (3 hours time difference). I simply change the clock on my pump and proceed as normal.

[princesslinda]

Jim, great that you're having less trouble with DP....greater still that you went to Hawaii. Was it all you expected? How were your #'s while "eating, drinking and being merry?" I've found that if i'm out having fun on vacation, even if i'm not as diligent as usual in carb counting, my #'s are still good...I have always assumed it's those "changes in lattitude/changes in attitude" concepts.

[moorejames]

This was our second trip there (Big Island). It was all paid for by a company I represent, so you can't beat the price (the most expensive part of the trip was the kennel bill; my parents kept the kids.)

The few times i tested, my numbers weren't terrible or anything, despite my best efforts, but we WERE pretty active (took a backcountry waterfall hike, snorkled with sea turtles).

-Cyborg, I'm almost NEVER under 100, so it might not seem like much of a difference in numbers, but it's fairly unprecedented

[volleyball]

I think the vacation part was the big factor. No stress, new surroundings and all that exercise you were not use to. Or the lack of pets and kids. Never been to Maui but I did live on Oahu for years.