Hello. I have prediabetes, and oftentimes my morning BG is anywhere between 5.7 to 6.0. Sometimes it is as high as 6.6 or 6.9. I'm male and 42. My BMI is 25.5 so I'm hardly obese, but could do with losing a few pounds.
My daytime glucose isn't too bad most of the time, so I think I'm still in the fairly early stages of prediabetes thankfully. For years I have been a breakfast skipper. Usually my routine has been to eat a small breakfast or skip it, eat a moderate sized lunch, and eat a big dinner.
Recently I went on vacation to Mexico, ate like crazy, and put on 5 pounds. While on holidays I enjoyed quite a large healthy breakfast. Not to mention lunch and dinner. I also drank quite a bit as well. I feared coming home and testing my glucose levels. I thought it would be sky high!
To my surprise, for the first few days upon return, my fasting glucose had dropped to between 4.5 to 4.7, of which, 5.7 was the lowest fasting BG I've seen in the two months previous. However, I was still skipping breakfast after I returned. On my third night I ate a large meal with a significant amount of fat, and obviously skipped breakfast. The following morning my fasting glucose was back up to 6.6!
I have been measuring my glucose before, and I often continued to skip breakfast, because I thought, "oh my glucose is still high".. might as well skip it, not produce insulin, hope it will drop a little, and then have a decent lunch. So I would start my day at 5.8 or something, eat lunch, and a few hours later it would bump up to 7.0. It would stay at around 6.7 until around dinner time. I would eat again, and maybe in the later evening it would go down to like 5.8.
Ok, so glucose is supposed to go up after eating a big meal, right, especially if it contains carbs and sugar? So recently now I start off at 5.7, ate a huge breakfast first thing in the morning, eggs, sausage, bacon, sweetened coffee, toast with peanut butter. Ok, so now I was curious what would happen to my blood glucose. One and two hours later, my glucose is around 4.5 or 4.7! ? HUH?! This is weird? Skipping breakfast, and after lunch it goes up a point.. but not skipping breakfast, after breakfast, it goes down a point?? HUH?!
I'm trying to understand what is going on, because this seems quite repeatable to me. My morning fasting glucose numbers are now dropping down to around 5.4. Perhaps I'll get it back down to the 4.5 or 4.7. It is hard to believe that just changing the time I eat makes so much of a big difference. It is also interesting that if I do the initial "breakfast drop" in the morning that my glucose numbers for the rest of the day seem to be lower as well, and go a bit lower for the following morning fast as well.
As a result of not understanding all this, I did some googling, and came across some articles such as this:
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/R-D/Study-Big-breakfast-could-help-manage-type-2-diabetes
So it seems there may be even some scientific merit in all this. I would really like to understand more fully as to what is going on, because this is something that doesn't seem to be talked about as much.
My daytime glucose isn't too bad most of the time, so I think I'm still in the fairly early stages of prediabetes thankfully. For years I have been a breakfast skipper. Usually my routine has been to eat a small breakfast or skip it, eat a moderate sized lunch, and eat a big dinner.
Recently I went on vacation to Mexico, ate like crazy, and put on 5 pounds. While on holidays I enjoyed quite a large healthy breakfast. Not to mention lunch and dinner. I also drank quite a bit as well. I feared coming home and testing my glucose levels. I thought it would be sky high!
To my surprise, for the first few days upon return, my fasting glucose had dropped to between 4.5 to 4.7, of which, 5.7 was the lowest fasting BG I've seen in the two months previous. However, I was still skipping breakfast after I returned. On my third night I ate a large meal with a significant amount of fat, and obviously skipped breakfast. The following morning my fasting glucose was back up to 6.6!
I have been measuring my glucose before, and I often continued to skip breakfast, because I thought, "oh my glucose is still high".. might as well skip it, not produce insulin, hope it will drop a little, and then have a decent lunch. So I would start my day at 5.8 or something, eat lunch, and a few hours later it would bump up to 7.0. It would stay at around 6.7 until around dinner time. I would eat again, and maybe in the later evening it would go down to like 5.8.
Ok, so glucose is supposed to go up after eating a big meal, right, especially if it contains carbs and sugar? So recently now I start off at 5.7, ate a huge breakfast first thing in the morning, eggs, sausage, bacon, sweetened coffee, toast with peanut butter. Ok, so now I was curious what would happen to my blood glucose. One and two hours later, my glucose is around 4.5 or 4.7! ? HUH?! This is weird? Skipping breakfast, and after lunch it goes up a point.. but not skipping breakfast, after breakfast, it goes down a point?? HUH?!
I'm trying to understand what is going on, because this seems quite repeatable to me. My morning fasting glucose numbers are now dropping down to around 5.4. Perhaps I'll get it back down to the 4.5 or 4.7. It is hard to believe that just changing the time I eat makes so much of a big difference. It is also interesting that if I do the initial "breakfast drop" in the morning that my glucose numbers for the rest of the day seem to be lower as well, and go a bit lower for the following morning fast as well.
As a result of not understanding all this, I did some googling, and came across some articles such as this:
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/R-D/Study-Big-breakfast-could-help-manage-type-2-diabetes
So it seems there may be even some scientific merit in all this. I would really like to understand more fully as to what is going on, because this is something that doesn't seem to be talked about as much.
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