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Spiking after breakfast ..

IcedSnowflake

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Location
Suffolk, UK
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
I am 19 weeks pregnant & type 2, last week I was put onto 1500mg of Metformin a day after I had around 40% of readings above recommended levels, the last few days my readings have begun spiking, (after meals I am meant to be no higher than 7.8), I had Hovis seeded bread (toast) Tuesday (Readings 9.9), Wednesday I had Granola with Green topped milk (Reading 9.6) & this morning plain porridge with readings sitting at 8.9 ... Within breakfast time I am active, getting my little ones to school & doing housework, so I'm getting some form of exercise, I really do want to avoid further medications being introduced so wondered if anyone could see what I'm doing wrong? Regards X
 
Try having protiens
mushrooms eggs bacon sausages with 99 percent meat.
I dont spike on bread but I dont eat it anyways and neither cereals as they are full of sugar.
For bread try using burgen or lo life they are the one's with least carbs unless you can make your own, there are lots of recipes on the forum.
 
Hello icedsnowflake
Are you testing before your meals & how long after you have eaten are you testing ?
Only by testing before and then at 2hr afterwards can you tell what the meal has done to your bs levels.
We are all different, what one person can tolerate will spike someone else. It looks like porridge, bread and granola are not good choices for you. As Brettsza said try bacon, egg, mushrooms, or full fat yoghurt and some berries, also there is a lot of sugar in milk (lactose) try changing to unsweetened almond milk, it's a good source of calcium low calorie & low carb.
 
Try 1 slice of Hovis Seed Sensation Wholemeal thickly slathered with no added sugar peanut butter (Whole Earth is yummy), full fat cream cheese or pate. The fat will slow the carb absorption down, flatten the spike. Locks up my hunger until lunchtime!
 
Try adding some protein with your toast, fish eggs, cheese as you are only eating carbs if you choose toast on it's own.

Granola is OK for some but not many. You could have a smaller portion and add some seeds and crushed nuts to bulk it up and this will also add more fat, protein and fibre. You could also do this with the porridge.

You could try a yoghurt with some fruit?
If those are things that you like you can experiment and see what happens when you do the above.
 
Hi Catinahat. I test before breakfast and 1 hour after meals (breakfast, lunch & tea) which is the directions given to me by my midwife, I'm not sure why this is as I had noticed many people test 2 hours after meals. My levels before breakfast average in the 4's & 5's (Has to be below 5.5 before breakfast), a couple of times it has been over, but not dramatically. I'll try the milk change as from today & buy some yogurt, I don't think I can manage anything more "solid" for breakfast as I've never been a breakfast person, so what I am eating now would be my limit (Cooked foods, I just couldn't stomach first thing).
 
I've tried that bread, it spikes my levels (I use the loaf with a green leaf on the packet), & can't eat Pate as I'm pregnant (One of the no go foods unfortunately)
 
Hi @IcedSnowflake,

When you are pregnant it is part of the routine to test 1 hour after a meal. Have you been given any targets? 7.8 or below is usual
after 1 hour.
 
Be very careful with breads and breakfast cereals as there can be big differences in sugar content between very similar looking products.
Genuine original plain Wheetabix contains the lowest sugar level of any breakfast cereal by a very large margin but has to be the original not supermarket own brand. Even what appears a healthy breakfast option can be sugar loaded Muesli caused me problems it can have more sugar than a bar of milk chocolate.

Same goes for bread look for whole meal bread with 1% or less sugar content.
 
If the carby options are sending you too high, and you object to cooked foods at breakfast, then try Greek yog and berries, or cheese and ham slices.
 
I agree with other comments a lower carb diet will help with your readings hope everything goes x
 
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