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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catinahat" data-source="post: 2509899" data-attributes="member: 155453">Welcome [USER=553718]@Baldy1100[/USER] There are many reasons apart from food for elevated levels, stress, exercise, poor sleep and the dawn phenomenon to name just a few. Higher levels first thing is very common and something most of us have experienced. In a response to certain hormones our liver releases stored glucose, it happens to everyone but in people who don't have diabetes their insulin mops up the released glucose and uses it to fuel the start of their day.As T2's our insulin no longer works as well as it should (insulin resistance), we have trouble using the extra glucose our liver so kindly supplies and so our sugar levels rises.As it is a completely natural process and just our body doing what it has evolved to do, stopping it from happening is extremely difficult. Just about the only thing that will help is reducing the amount of glucose you have in storage. So concentrate on reducing your levels throughout the day by cutting as many carbs out of your diet as you can. This will eventually result in lower fasting numbers, although be warned that the fasting levels are usually the last to come down. In my own case after around 8 years of eating low carb and having HbA1c in the non diabetic range, my fasting numbers are still the highest of the day.</blockquote>

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