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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2335501" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p><a href="https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/fruits" target="_blank">https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/fruits</a> <-- that should help with the fruit. But yeah... Basically it's just berries. The meter giving high glucose readings in the morning would indeed be Dawn Phenomenon, your liver helping out by dumping stored glucose (in a way a good thing, because you want to get rid of that particular stuff!) to help you start the day, and the sandwich.... That's a bit tricky. With <em>bacon</em>, you added a lot of fat to the meal, meaning it slows down the spike you would've seen if it'd just been the bread. That does usually mean your blood glucose might not spike as high, but it will remain on the higher side longer than normal, which isn't exactly desirable either. If you eat something very carby with fats, try testing again at the 3 hour mark as well, and see whether you've gone up, down or remained the same, and whether those numbers are acceptable to you. There's people who can have a pizza and be wonderful at the 2 hour mark, because the fats slow down the uptake of the carbs... Then at 4 or even 5 hours they get a spike; the fats are gone but the glucose isn't, yet. It's called the Pizza Effect.</p><p></p><p>I know, it's all a bit... Much. You'll get it though. Like I said, give yourself some time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 2335501, member: 401801"] [URL]https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/fruits[/URL] <-- that should help with the fruit. But yeah... Basically it's just berries. The meter giving high glucose readings in the morning would indeed be Dawn Phenomenon, your liver helping out by dumping stored glucose (in a way a good thing, because you want to get rid of that particular stuff!) to help you start the day, and the sandwich.... That's a bit tricky. With [I]bacon[/I], you added a lot of fat to the meal, meaning it slows down the spike you would've seen if it'd just been the bread. That does usually mean your blood glucose might not spike as high, but it will remain on the higher side longer than normal, which isn't exactly desirable either. If you eat something very carby with fats, try testing again at the 3 hour mark as well, and see whether you've gone up, down or remained the same, and whether those numbers are acceptable to you. There's people who can have a pizza and be wonderful at the 2 hour mark, because the fats slow down the uptake of the carbs... Then at 4 or even 5 hours they get a spike; the fats are gone but the glucose isn't, yet. It's called the Pizza Effect. I know, it's all a bit... Much. You'll get it though. Like I said, give yourself some time. [/QUOTE]
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