Hi all. After a bad 6 months with very poor control (my own fault) I'm trying to get back on track and I'm taking blood sugar readings more often (after taking none!). Every day I've noticed an unexpected mid morning spike about 2hrs after breakfast which is rather high - usually 13 to 17 mmol/L! I know about the dawn phenomenon but this doesn't seem to fit with my readings. Here are today's as an example ....
07:30 - 5.8 (when I got up - no dawn effect here)
10:15 - 14.6 (2hrs after breakfast of 2 Weetabix with milk)
12:14 - 5.7
13:46 - 6.2 (1hr after lunch)
17:04 - 4.1
That spike worries me - any idea why it might be happening and is there anything I can do about it?
TIA
Hi Meonia, As bulkbiker has said your mid morning spike is cause by your choice of breakfast.
You say that you had 6 months of poor control of your Blood Sugars. How were you dealing with it before then? Were you taking active management of it, or just following the accepted guidelines?
Most people in here have accepted that the guidelines will just take you along a path of (at best) slowly worsening condition. The alternative is to make a lifestyle change. Eat much less Carbs because they all (even the so-called 'good' ones ) spike your Glucose levels just like sugar , though they may take a little longer to do so. Next you have a choice, either live on a calorie restricted diet, or replace the carb calories that you cut out with calories from Oils and Fats.
I really enjoy food, so I chose the LCHF for 2 reasons:
1. I was only 2 or 3 lbs overweight. so a calorie restriction would take my weight down too far.
2. I don't have the discipline to permanently count calories, and with LCHF I don't need to - I just count carbs and otherwise eat as much as I want of meat, fish, eggs, butter, cheese, cream and 'above ground' veg. Although I have to limit beans, peas, lentils.
I also have to cut out certain (high sugar) fruit such as bananas, mangoes, pineapples and have the other fruit as a treat instead of every day as before.
I am confident that I can keep this lifestyle for many years since I don't feel deprived.
