Does anybody else struggle with breakfast?? If I don’t have breakfast my sugars stay level if I dare to eat breakfast I struggle to get them down to normal for the rest of the Morning! My diabetes hates breakfast!!
Yes this is what I find myself doing too!! I have weetabix as there’s very little sugar in it but brown toast also has the same effect on my sugars too. God help me if I ever fancy a bacon sarnie lol!! Mayb I could eat it at the gym!!
Good thinking full breakfast on treadmill while watching Jeremy Kyle on screens were on to something here
MeRecently I've been having big spikes after breakfast (up to around 10 or so, thankfully they come down fairly quickly with the exercise of getting dressed etc). So I changed my basal, and ate a little bit less, and today my blood sugar hardly spiked at all and wouldn't come up even with juice. I usually have 2 weetbix with peanut butter, an apple, and a frozen yoghurt or icecream.
I had the same experience as @Sobo82 with Weetabix and most cereals.
I generally have really good control between breakfast and lunch by eating either Greek yoghurt or Paleo muesli from Aldi. There’s only 7g of carbs per portion. Portions are small but it actually keeps me full until lunch. Sometimes I have a few berries with it. On a weekend I tend to have eggs.
No they spike no matter what! I had one piece of toast with low fat spread had 6 units of novo rapid which I figured was enough to cover it! they spiked to 15!! The problem is if I have any more I end up going low! If I have nothing they are fine! So frustrating!Hi. Your spikes will be caused by the carbs in the cereal - it's not just sugar you need to think about. Eggs and bacon or similar will be much better. As you are T1 I assume you will be on the Basal/Bolus insulin regime in which case can't you just have more Bolus for that meal?
You could try eating breakfast with (almost) no carbs. Plain greek yoghurt or bacon and eggs, or cucumber and cheese or so. Works for me. Good luck!
I had the same experience as @Sobo82 with Weetabix and most cereals.
I generally have really good control between breakfast and lunch by eating either Greek yoghurt or Paleo muesli from Aldi. There’s only 7g of carbs per portion. Portions are small but it actually keeps me full until lunch. Sometimes I have a few berries with it. On a weekend I tend to have eggs.
Plain unsweetened greek yoghurt doesn't have any sugar. Check the back of the package to make sure. It has 10% fat, so tastes wonderful without sweetening and is filling as well. You can also make wonderful zaziki with it to accompany you meal (or eat out of the pot every time you pass the fridge): yoghurt, grated cucumber, bit of lemon juice, lots of fresh garlic, splash of olive oil, pinch of salt. I love it on about every meat or vegetable, and also like to add a big spoon of it to my bowl of soup or stewIs there not lots of sugar in Greek yoghurt!? I think I’m going to have to try it out it seems to be working for most people!?
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