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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1516826" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>My mornings have evolved over time, so I've tried various things.</p><p></p><p>The following have worked to bring my morning levels down:</p><p>Eating a small cheese snack on waking. 25 g of cheese, no more. This seemed to stop the rise dead, since most of my morning rise happened as I got up</p><p>Eating just a protein breakfast. Bacon and egg kind of thing. That seemed to result in bg significantly lower at 2 hours than it was before eating.</p><p></p><p>The following stopped/dramatically reduced the morning rise so that it hardly happened:</p><p>Dropping my carbs low enough. For me, this was being consistently below 20g carbs a day for several days. After that, my bg just coasted along all night and all morning with no rises or drops bigger than 1mmol/l or so, at any time.</p><p></p><p>I've also tried various intermittent fasting regimes:</p><p>Fasting 16:8 didn't ever stop the rise</p><p>Fasting for 24 hrs, then having an evening meal before fasting til the next one, for 5 straight days didn't stop the rise, although it reduced it.</p><p></p><p>Nowadays, I just trundle along, on varying amounts of carbs from less than 20 (most days) to up to 60/70 g carbs a day (maybe one day in 7). I tend to skip breakfast 5 days a week, having just a cup of coffeesubstitue and cream instead, so I am really doing 16:8 most days, and most of my carbs are lunchtime/evening. The effect of this variable routine is that yes, I do get a morning rise, usually 1mmol/l but only rising more than that if I have filled up my glycogen stores with too many carbs in the preceding day.</p><p></p><p>Last October I went Gluten Free, and have found that has been very beneficial in many ways. One of the best things is that it made my blood glucose rises and falls a lot smoother, smaller and less jangly. So I now prioritise GF over Low Carb, because I can cope with carbs much better without gluten screwing everything up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1516826, member: 41816"] My mornings have evolved over time, so I've tried various things. The following have worked to bring my morning levels down: Eating a small cheese snack on waking. 25 g of cheese, no more. This seemed to stop the rise dead, since most of my morning rise happened as I got up Eating just a protein breakfast. Bacon and egg kind of thing. That seemed to result in bg significantly lower at 2 hours than it was before eating. The following stopped/dramatically reduced the morning rise so that it hardly happened: Dropping my carbs low enough. For me, this was being consistently below 20g carbs a day for several days. After that, my bg just coasted along all night and all morning with no rises or drops bigger than 1mmol/l or so, at any time. I've also tried various intermittent fasting regimes: Fasting 16:8 didn't ever stop the rise Fasting for 24 hrs, then having an evening meal before fasting til the next one, for 5 straight days didn't stop the rise, although it reduced it. Nowadays, I just trundle along, on varying amounts of carbs from less than 20 (most days) to up to 60/70 g carbs a day (maybe one day in 7). I tend to skip breakfast 5 days a week, having just a cup of coffeesubstitue and cream instead, so I am really doing 16:8 most days, and most of my carbs are lunchtime/evening. The effect of this variable routine is that yes, I do get a morning rise, usually 1mmol/l but only rising more than that if I have filled up my glycogen stores with too many carbs in the preceding day. Last October I went Gluten Free, and have found that has been very beneficial in many ways. One of the best things is that it made my blood glucose rises and falls a lot smoother, smaller and less jangly. So I now prioritise GF over Low Carb, because I can cope with carbs much better without gluten screwing everything up. [/QUOTE]
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