Those figures aren't really all that high and are not spikes. You've probably got a touch of dawn phenomenon, where your liver is upping your glucose to give you a start in the morning. Adding carbs via a carby breakfast will usually stop the DP but your BG will still see the effect of the additional eaten glucose.My waking is 6.1 before breakfast it's 8.3 but it does go down 6.6 mmol 2 hours after. Is it because my mmol is quite high before I eat still trying to work it all out.
Everyone's different, so there really isn't an "average" rise. And it also depends on how long you let it go on rising. As an experiment, I once tested hourly from six am - steady slow BG rise, all liver-produced, until I got bored at 2pm and had something to eat.Wow, lucky you with those levels, what ever you are doing it sounds good. My waking level is 17.2 having been at 14.7 half an hour before waking. Heard about the Dawn syndrome but what is the average rise
Those figures aren't really all that high and are not spikes. You've probably got a touch of dawn phenomenon, where your liver is upping your glucose to give you a start in the morning. Adding carbs via a carby breakfast will usually stop the DP but your BG will still see the effect of the additional eaten glucose.
There's little you can do about that directly, but these days I can stop mine rising with three almonds. Seems to reassure my liver I have food. It possibly/probably will lessen as your liver gets used to lower BG levels overall. Took mine months to adjust, though.
I buy a low carb "bread" selection from SRSLY low carb. They do excellent bagels and good wraps. They also have a nice cinnamon bun with a couple of raisins, and some rolls, which are a bit lacking in taste but are much better fried in bacon fat and then used for bacon sandwiches. If I recall correctly, there are 6g carb in each wrap, and the other items are lower - under 3g for the rolls, for example.
I am very interested in your 3 almond liver reassurance trick! When do you eat them? Straight after waking? Do you eat breakfast later or use IF? I know everyone is different. Very interesting.Everyone's different, so there really isn't an "average" rise. And it also depends on how long you let it go on rising. As an experiment, I once tested hourly from six am - steady slow BG rise, all liver-produced, until I got bored at 2pm and had something to eat.
It's not something I do in any way regularly, as I'm no longer bothered about what my liver gets up to in the mornings. I rarely eat anything in the mornings. I eat when I want to, this can mean very long intervals but I have no "fasting routine". On the rare occasions I eat any breakfast - as I did last Friday - I almost certainly won't eat again that day.I am very interested in your 3 almond liver reassurance trick! When do you eat them? Straight after waking? Do you eat breakfast later or use IF? I know everyone is different. Very interesting.
Thank you! Most interesting! I’m going to use it to test myself.It's not something I do in any way regularly, as I'm no longer bothered about what my liver gets up to in the mornings. I rarely eat anything in the mornings. I eat when I want to, this can mean very long intervals but I have no "fasting routine". On the rare occasions I eat any breakfast - as I did last Friday - I almost certainly won't eat again that day.
I think someone on here - sorry, can't remember who, it was years ago - noted that food seemed to turn off liver glucose production in the morning. That also works for me, and I just experimented a bit (it was lockdown and there wasn't much else to do) to see what the minimum amount of "food" might be. Three almonds was the smallest amount. For all I know one almond might do it. I guess (a real guess) that the enzyme reaction to having a food, maybe any food, in the mouth might be enough. It also raises a question about whether chewing gum might have the same impact.
This is not to say that this will or should work for everyone. As i haven't tested for this for years, it's also possible it no longer works for me.
I buy from Seriously too. Products are pretty good but their quality control is appalling - loaves different sizes, all squashed in the box at delivery, last lot of bread rolls I got were like rocks. BUT... there's not much V. low carb out there and their products are vehicles for, for example, sandwiches or egg on toast.Those figures aren't really all that high and are not spikes. You've probably got a touch of dawn phenomenon, where your liver is upping your glucose to give you a start in the morning. Adding carbs via a carby breakfast will usually stop the DP but your BG will still see the effect of the additional eaten glucose.
There's little you can do about that directly, but these days I can stop mine rising with three almonds. Seems to reassure my liver I have food. It possibly/probably will lessen as your liver gets used to lower BG levels overall. Took mine months to adjust, though.
I buy a low carb "bread" selection from SRSLY low carb. They do excellent bagels and good wraps. They also have a nice cinnamon bun with a couple of raisins, and some rolls, which are a bit lacking in taste but are much better fried in bacon fat and then used for bacon sandwiches. If I recall correctly, there are 6g carb in each wrap, and the other items are lower - under 3g for the rolls, for example.
If I want a low carb breakfast with something "bready" then SRSLY product works.I buy from Seriously too. Products are pretty good but their quality control is appalling - loaves different sizes, all squashed in the box at delivery, last lot of bread rolls I got were like rocks. BUT... there's not much V. low carb out there and their products are vehicles for, for example, sandwiches or egg on toast.
I got so fed up with the inconsistency of SLC I tried Heylo. A mixture of things. Some of it tasted OK like the seeded bread and brown bread, but I found the loaves small, almost Soreen fruity malty loaf size and not ideal for my poached eggs.My experience with SLC is similar to @Jo_the_boat & @KennyA so I get my rolls & bread from the Low Carb Food Co, I also prefer these over seriously ones (though they have recently changed their packaging and I’m find the products dry out very quickly if you don’t wrap them well in either a freezer bag or foil when in the fridge) and I get bagels and the cross buns or the fruit loaf & sometimes the little croissants from SLC, I like the croissants but even by keto bread standards find them a bit on the expensive side at £9.99 for 10, which sounds a bargain until you realise they are bite sized. The wraps are the best low carb wraps I’ve used as you can actually “wrap” them - any others I’ve had crack or break as soon as you begin to bend them
As others have mentioned, there are low carb breads available. I confess to having toast as my comfort food. I was cdoing without altogether, until some kind folks in here pointed me to the companies providing low carb bakery items. Such as SRLSLY low carb and lowcarbco.Morning, I'm having trouble with spikes after breakfast! I've tried porridge, whitabix, scrambled eggs on 20gram soda bread brown. I would rather just have white toast with marmalade but that's not going to happen is it
Lowf ?I think it (the low carb "bread") needs a specific name, much as non-dairy "chease" was called "gary".
"Bredd" is a bit obvious.....