I'm not diabetic, but have been monitoring my blood glucose of late in an effort to understand my present state of health.
Overall, things seem pretty good, save perhaps for a strange pattern I've noticed with my blood glucose during the morning at weekends.
I exercise every weekday morning. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I have a small breakfast (usually porridge) followed by some free weights exercise, followed by the second half of my breakfast. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I do some cardio (normally 20 minutes jogging) before breakfast. Of course I see my BG rise after eating in both cases, but rarely to levels that are particularly surprising.
However, I normally have weekends off from exercising of a morning, so I just wake up and have breakfast soon after. Since I have started exercising regularly during the week I have noticed that my BG spikes very high (for a non-diabetic) on weekend mornings, often rising to 9 or 10. Indeed, this morning after a breakfast of beans on toast (420kcal; 25g protein, 49g carbs, 12g fat, 12g fibre) my BG was 10.4 within half an hour and stayed there for another 20 minutes or so before slowly dropping.
I understand that insulin sensitivity is quite low just after waking up, but as a non-diabetic (recently had fasting BG and HBA1c done; both normal), I shouldn't be seeing levels that high at all, especially not with a breakfast like that which is pretty light compared to what I have often eaten in the past without a problem. A walk seems to bring BG back to normal relatively quickly, and then it seems fine for the rest of the day, so is this just to do with my body being really sluggish about secreting insulin of a morning? Has my exercise regime during the week caused some alterations, such that when I don't exercise of a morning I see unusual patterns such as this?
Overall, things seem pretty good, save perhaps for a strange pattern I've noticed with my blood glucose during the morning at weekends.
I exercise every weekday morning. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I have a small breakfast (usually porridge) followed by some free weights exercise, followed by the second half of my breakfast. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I do some cardio (normally 20 minutes jogging) before breakfast. Of course I see my BG rise after eating in both cases, but rarely to levels that are particularly surprising.
However, I normally have weekends off from exercising of a morning, so I just wake up and have breakfast soon after. Since I have started exercising regularly during the week I have noticed that my BG spikes very high (for a non-diabetic) on weekend mornings, often rising to 9 or 10. Indeed, this morning after a breakfast of beans on toast (420kcal; 25g protein, 49g carbs, 12g fat, 12g fibre) my BG was 10.4 within half an hour and stayed there for another 20 minutes or so before slowly dropping.
I understand that insulin sensitivity is quite low just after waking up, but as a non-diabetic (recently had fasting BG and HBA1c done; both normal), I shouldn't be seeing levels that high at all, especially not with a breakfast like that which is pretty light compared to what I have often eaten in the past without a problem. A walk seems to bring BG back to normal relatively quickly, and then it seems fine for the rest of the day, so is this just to do with my body being really sluggish about secreting insulin of a morning? Has my exercise regime during the week caused some alterations, such that when I don't exercise of a morning I see unusual patterns such as this?