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<blockquote data-quote="Stephen Lewis" data-source="post: 2342352" data-attributes="member: 479176"><p>Hi Jacquie S: I have always had different results from eating porridge at different times of the day and different seasons of the year. I always get a desire for more carbs in the autumn which I think is part of our bodies wanting to store up surplus fats for winter energy and heating. (A learned genetic behavior?) This year I went back to relatively small amount of porridge for breakfast. 1 instant pack over 2 days = 11 carbs per day. Usually I only have a couple of carbs for breakfast as my dawn phenomenon has been high since reducing Metformin to 1 x 500 gm per day. Like you the morning porridge is now having little or no difference to my bg. As diabetics our pancreas may be producing lower insulin (or our bodies unable to use it) but I believe my pancreas is still measuring my blood sugars, still motivating the liver to produce glucose when sugars are low and still telling the liver to change glucose to fat when sugars are high.</p><p>When I have porridge in the morning, my bg levels are already high so my pancreas tells the liver to store the excess glucose as fat so there is little or no additional increase in my bg. This fat is now available for the liver to switch back to glucose the next dawn helping to cause the increasing bg as I wake up.</p><p>In the evening, my pancreas is 'aware' that I am not sleeping so allows the increased glucose to stay as it may be needed.</p><p>It is these continuous but changing and interconnected loops that for me become the hardest to control and manage as my doctor decreases my medication.</p><p>Our bodies will probably work differently but this may help you to understand yours. Keep trying as you can get control.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stephen Lewis, post: 2342352, member: 479176"] Hi Jacquie S: I have always had different results from eating porridge at different times of the day and different seasons of the year. I always get a desire for more carbs in the autumn which I think is part of our bodies wanting to store up surplus fats for winter energy and heating. (A learned genetic behavior?) This year I went back to relatively small amount of porridge for breakfast. 1 instant pack over 2 days = 11 carbs per day. Usually I only have a couple of carbs for breakfast as my dawn phenomenon has been high since reducing Metformin to 1 x 500 gm per day. Like you the morning porridge is now having little or no difference to my bg. As diabetics our pancreas may be producing lower insulin (or our bodies unable to use it) but I believe my pancreas is still measuring my blood sugars, still motivating the liver to produce glucose when sugars are low and still telling the liver to change glucose to fat when sugars are high. When I have porridge in the morning, my bg levels are already high so my pancreas tells the liver to store the excess glucose as fat so there is little or no additional increase in my bg. This fat is now available for the liver to switch back to glucose the next dawn helping to cause the increasing bg as I wake up. In the evening, my pancreas is 'aware' that I am not sleeping so allows the increased glucose to stay as it may be needed. It is these continuous but changing and interconnected loops that for me become the hardest to control and manage as my doctor decreases my medication. Our bodies will probably work differently but this may help you to understand yours. Keep trying as you can get control. [/QUOTE]
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