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<blockquote data-quote="busydiabeticmum" data-source="post: 1632603" data-attributes="member: 160151"><p>It's called the dawn phenomena! Your body releases glucose into the blood to give you energy to get up and move about... it can't actually see if you have enough or not! Your body measures how much insulin is in you rather than glucose levels so if your insulin is low it believes your glucose is low too and dumps a load of glucose to help you keep going... (liver dump).</p><p>Once you have been low carbing for a couple of weeks you should then be in ketosis and your liver will be drained of its reserve and won't be able to do this anymore.</p><p></p><p>Do you have a meter yet? You can buy your own and start testing, keep a spread sheet of what foods do what to your bgl, then you will be able to plan your meals based on this. There is a low carb forum on here with loads of low carb meals and recipes, you may actually find great alternatives that you actually prefer!</p><p></p><p>Cauliflower pizza is amazing (I really didn't think that would work!) So get some ideas and don't worry. </p><p>Most things have carbs (water doesn't) but a lot of those won't effect you! The ones that will are root veg, bread, pasta, rice, fruit (except berries)... but we are all different so react differently to certain foods... the only way for sure to know what you can and can't eat will be to test hourly after each meal (this may take a month to get the full picture and then go back to every now and then) I have the codefree (cheap and accurate) but loads of people advocate for the libre.</p><p>I</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="busydiabeticmum, post: 1632603, member: 160151"] It's called the dawn phenomena! Your body releases glucose into the blood to give you energy to get up and move about... it can't actually see if you have enough or not! Your body measures how much insulin is in you rather than glucose levels so if your insulin is low it believes your glucose is low too and dumps a load of glucose to help you keep going... (liver dump). Once you have been low carbing for a couple of weeks you should then be in ketosis and your liver will be drained of its reserve and won't be able to do this anymore. Do you have a meter yet? You can buy your own and start testing, keep a spread sheet of what foods do what to your bgl, then you will be able to plan your meals based on this. There is a low carb forum on here with loads of low carb meals and recipes, you may actually find great alternatives that you actually prefer! Cauliflower pizza is amazing (I really didn't think that would work!) So get some ideas and don't worry. Most things have carbs (water doesn't) but a lot of those won't effect you! The ones that will are root veg, bread, pasta, rice, fruit (except berries)... but we are all different so react differently to certain foods... the only way for sure to know what you can and can't eat will be to test hourly after each meal (this may take a month to get the full picture and then go back to every now and then) I have the codefree (cheap and accurate) but loads of people advocate for the libre. I [/QUOTE]
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