Hi Ben
Welcom to the forum
Your diet sounds very similar to mine and I don't have any problems with it.. I eat normal foods
The morning rebound, could be two causes what happening there..
1st one..
Over night you've blood sugar's have dip under the hypo threshold, so after a while the liver will dump it's store of glucose to raise your bg and bail you out, personally I would expect to see an higher rebound if this is happening, but there is tale tale sign that help to indicate this might be happening..
That is you feel ****, like having an hang-over when you wake up..
The other reason which I reckon is probably more likely in your case, is dawn phanomnonon (sp) or called DP for short, this is where you hormones start to increase in the morning to wake you up, hormones can effect your bg and raise this as well. With this you tend to see an increase in BG at a lower impact than from an hypo rebound.
To sort out whats happening, is do over-night testing.. Where you test hourly to find out what your BG is up to over night, You don't have to do them every hour over one night, but can do it over several nights to lessen the impact of lack of sleep.. To get best results, ensure that the strating BG is similar on all nights, and you've roughly followed the same routine during the day..
First night go for the 3am BG, as this will be around the point your blood glucose is likely to be at it's lowest level, this is due hormonal activity over the 24 hour cycle at it is at it's lowest ebb, then work your way at your choosing through the rest of the hours of the night to get an picture of what actually happening..
Shall post the next lot of information in another post, as this will end up as a easy