Breakfast

[ngood94323]

Hi all, is weetabix a good breakfast choice? I know it’s higher in carbs than other breakfast but is it better slow release and fibre contents helps if to break down slower?

 

[Art Of Flowers]

Two weetabix has about 26g of carbs, so is not a good choice. If you have type 2 diabetes that will probably raise your blood sugar between 5 and 10 mmol. Eggs are good. I eat Alpro NO SUGAR yoghurt for breakfast.

Get a blood sugar monitor if you haven't got one and test you glucose before, 1hr after and 2 hrs after eating and you will see just how it affects you.

 

[KennyA]

Hi all, is weetabix a good breakfast choice? I know it’s higher in carbs than other breakfast but is it better slow release and fibre contents helps if to break down slower?

Hi ngood94323

In my opinion, and for me, it isn't. I find that "GI and slow release" isn't something that appears to exist as far as my response to carbs is concerned - I ignore it.

Weetabix by weight is around 60% carb, so two weetabix plus milk will get you a total of at least around 31 or 32g carb, including the milk. If you have more milk, more carb. That would blow my daily carb budget straight away and then some, but I'm going for ~20g/day. If you're looking to keep to (say) 150g/day you might be able to manage it, but that depends on what else you eat rest of the day.

Personally I would test before eating and then again at +2 hours. If you're one of those people who spends ages over a meal you might want to flex the time of the second reading a bit, trial and error.

Testing sooner than +2 is of limited benefit - the testing regime is to show you how well your system is (or isn't) handling the carbs in what you eat, not looking to see "how high you go". At the two hour point your system ideally should have returned you to close to your starting point - that's the point of "within 2mmol/l". In the intervening time your BG will almost certainly have been much higher - my usual example is that (via CGM) I know that the milk in a small latte will take me from 5ish to 9.6 in half an hour. Totally gone (ie back to 5ish) by two hours. If you want to find out what your BG pattern is after eating, the best way in my experience is to try a CGM (attaching a graph of a "normal" day for a non-diabetic CGM wearer where you can see the BG rises after eating).

I am much happier with a short but higher rise than I am with a lower rise that goes on for much longer. I might only be at the peak figure for a matter of minutes, and this is consistent with BG patterns from non-diabetics. What I'm interested in is how quickly the digested glucose is dealt with, not how much there was.