Morning Fasting Blood Glucose

[tubamanandy]

Are there any ways that work to lower my morning fasting blood glucose ?

I have read and think I understand the science but not found a way to lower mine - 10.5 this morning.

I only take 2 x Metformin/day for T2D - 1 x tablet taken at teatime & 1 x tablet first thing in the morning - I usually have 2 x boiled eggs for breakfast with tea (dont need anything else). I follow a moderate carb intake around 50Gr daily

 

[kokhongw]

There's a couple of ways, but I found Dr Jason Fung's approach to work well for me...

https://idmprogram.com/dawn-phenomenon-t2d-8/

Think about it this way. The Dawn Phenomenon is simply moving sugar from body stores (liver) into the blood. That’s it. If your body stores are filled to bursting, then you will expel as much of that sugar as possible. By itself it is neither good nor bad. It is simply a marker that your body has too much sugar. Solution? Simple. Either don’t put any sugar in (LCHF) or burn it off (Fasting). Even better? LCHF + IF.

So when my Fasting numbers are high... ie > 6 mmol... I start to skip dinner...

FBG 7.5 Sunday
FBG 6.9 Mon Fast all day
FBG 6.3 Tue Broke fast with a light dinner
FBG 5.8 Wed Had roast pork belly lunch and light dinner of nuts and...cookies...
FBG 6.5 today

 

[Ross.Walker]

sounds silly but the deeper the sleep you wake from the higher your morning reading will be, think revving the engine... (a rather simplified analogy) but if all your other readings are good then worry not. Based on that view I stopped morning testing.

 

[Bluetit1802]

What are you before you go to bed and by how much do your levels rise overnight?

Edit to add - when do you do your FBG reading?