Skipping Breakfast?

[asparagusp]

I always have breakfast and my readings are usually good. I had though for some unknown reason 8.4 fasting reading today. Should I have had breakfast?

 

[Catlady19]

Yes, of course, you have to eat! Was probably a morning liver dump.

 

[dawnmc]

I never eat breakfast, never have - cant abide eating at that time of a morning.

 

[Brunneria]

I take the view that getting up in the morning takes energy.
This has to come from somewhere.
If you don't eat breakfast (like I didn't for decades), then you are teaching your body to find the energy from somewhere else (the liver).

I genuinely believe that skipping breakfast for all that time caused my dawn phenomenon and hair trigger liver dumps in the morning.

So yes, I recommend breakfast.

(I also find that within minutes of eating a low carb breakfast my blood glucose drops substantially. It is as though my body sighs in relief, and comes off emergency energy production)

 

[Daphne917]

I find that if I don't eat breakfast my BS drops and I feel quite ill. I also feel the same if I leave it too long between eating and find that I am better off if I have a small 'snack' between b/fast and lunch

 

[Celeriac]

I eat breakfast otherwise my BG climbs. However, during the day, my liver doesn't seem to dump and I can go without food. If I get hungry though, I feel nauseous and ignoring that on one occasion caused me to actually have nausea.

I do think breakfast is important. I find that getting on top of my numbers in the morning makes them better all day and if eating does that then I'm more than happy to do it.

 

[yenrug1]

Never use to eat breakfast, but since being on merformin I always have it & I'm loosing weight so I must be doing something right

 

[mfactor]

Never really fancy food at that time , but start to feel hungry about mid morning so eat brunch, did Intermittent Fasting 16/8 ( fast for 16 hours eat in a 8 hour window typically 12 noon till 8) for a long time which fits in well for non brekky people