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Dawn Phenomenon

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Lizzeeee

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Location
Scotland
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Hi, struggling with blood sugar levels but taking advice on here and also experimenting. My BS are very high in the morning. I have tried not having breakfast and only eating between 12 and 6pm. However, my levels go up before lunch, rather than down. Any point not having breakfast? Thanks.
 
Whether you have breakfast or not is up to you. Personally, I feel hungry in the morning so I do. I often feel less hungry in the evening and so don't bother with an evening meal. Sticking to a regime of 3 meals every day often isn't necessary for everyone. Do what works for you
 
Thank you, I was surprised I could skip breakfast without gnawing my arm off mid-morning. I am the opposite to you, and get hungry in the evening.
 
@Lizzeeee Allowing DP to continue unabated until lunch time is a choice.
On the one hand it's running down your body's fat stores, but on the other it means having higher BG levels than you might otherwise. So for me it would be a question of how high those BG levels get to.

Most people find that any low/no carb snack will convince the liver to halt the DP process. Some can even halt it with a coffee with double cream (no sugar obviously).
 
This is due to insulin resistance. Also cortisol is usually peaking at this time.

what works for me is eating breakfast to cancel out cortisol, and going for a brisk walk to burn up glucose. Get those GLUT-4 receptors going.

bty my breakfast is low carb. Lately it’s been two eggs, 100grams of smoked salmon and a green chili pepper.
 
Yeah, I have a liver spurting out excess glucose issue in the morning too. Breakfast is a definite good thing for my BG, but I agree with @ianf0ster - it's a choice between the window of eating thing, and the higher BG thing.

I choose to eat to halt the glucose loading, and I like breakfast. Yum.
 
What is DP, please?
 
DP is abbreviation for Dawn Phenomenon which is when the liver dumps glucose into the bloodstream to provide energy for us cave-dwellers to go hunt/gather our breakfast.

I don't distinguish between DP and FOTF (Foot On The Floor) since most people don't do a Blood Glucose test whilst still in bed and so have no way (CGM excepted) of knowing when it started.
 
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