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Eat breakfast to halt Dawn Effect?

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Sal87

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Does anyone eat a small morning meal of fat/protein just to break their rising Dawn Effect numbers? Mine keep climbing while I'm fasting until 3 p.m. or later, leaving me with high blood glucose numbers much of the day. Perhaps I have to switch my 18/6 time-restricted eating to be from breakfast to lunch.
 
If you're not eating the sugar can only be coming from your own body, in other words it's you liver releasing stored sugar into the blood where you can see it and more importantly burn it off.
 
catinahat said:
If you're not eating the sugar can only be coming from your own body, in other words it's you liver releasing stored sugar into the blood where you can see it and more importantly burn it off.
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Yes, I agree in principle but blood glucose reaching 12 mmol or more is not good and I know some advisors even go to some insulin if necessary to cut that number, something I definitely don't want to do.
 
I do, I eat a breakfast of Keto coconut porridge with a couple of chopped strawberries with double cream, totalling around 7g carbs. If I don’t eat breakfast which I only ever do on days when I’m having fasting bloods done my blood sugar rises til I have a coffee with cream.

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I experimented when I had this issue.
Any carbs at breakfast (Greek yogurt and berries) made matters worse.
Nothing but a cup of tea with a dash of milk didn't work and I was hungry before lunch.
A decaff coffee with double cream (generous helping of cream) and no food worked wonderfully..
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I experimented when I had this issue.
Any carbs at breakfast (Greek yogurt and berries) made matters worse.
Nothing but a cup of tea with a dash of milk didn't work and I was hungry before lunch.
A decaff coffee with double cream (generous helping of cream) and no food worked wonderfully..
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Coffee and cream for breakfast for me. Works like a charm.
 
I eat about 10 gm of carbs along with fat and protein for my first meal, to stop my blood glucose rising.
My next meal is in the evening.
 
Rachox said:
I do, I eat a breakfast of Keto coconut porridge with a couple of chopped strawberries with double cream, totalling around 7g carbs. If I don’t eat breakfast which I only ever do on days when I’m having fasting bloods done my blood sugar rises til I have a coffee with cream.

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Rachox, tell us something about keto coconut porridge -- what's in it?
 
Sal87 said:
Does anyone eat a small morning meal of fat/protein just to break their rising Dawn Effect numbers? Mine keep climbing while I'm fasting until 3 p.m. or later, leaving me with high blood glucose numbers much of the day. Perhaps I have to switch my 18/6 time-restricted eating to be from breakfast to lunch.
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When my numbers rise and I want to bring them down, but I don't want to have breakfast, I have a little bit of extra dark chocolate.... Not the most wise thing to do, I suppose, but it is tasty. ;)
 
A bit of scrambled egg is common for me, takes literally 2 mins in the microwave. If I’m feeling decadent a squirt of mustard, a splash of double cream and a bit of grated cheese liven it up to something much tastier and very few carbs
 
coffee with double cream as I find it difficult to eat breakfast, Then a couple of hours later I have greek style yoghurt with mixed seeds and strawberries.
 
Sal87 said:
Folks, that's all fine with the eggs or cream but if you eat breakfast, when do you fast, if you do?
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I skip dinner now. Works best for me. I do t at the weekends but during the week I have breakfast (eggs) and then a late lunch when I’m hungry (eggs are so filling!) and then I just don’t feel the need to eat again.
 
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