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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2633629" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p>What do we want? Remission! When do we want it? Now!</p><p></p><p>It'll take a little bit longer than that, I'm afraid. As you know from the above replies, Dawn Phenomenon plays a role. For quite a while now, your liver has been storing the glucose you couldn't burn off due to your insulin resistance... Your liver is, therefore, rather full of the stuff. And in the morning it helpfully dumps some of it to help you get your day started. The morning fasting numbers are the last to come down, but consider this: If it's out of your liver and in your bloodstream, it is on its way out of your body, which is a good thing! (Most T2 diabetics have non-alcoholic fatty liver diseae, and this helps get that sorted!) So while I know being high in the morning isn't exactly fun, it isn't bad, per sé, if you're depleting what's stored in the liver, and through low carb you're not topping up the stores any longer... Eventually your liver'll be running on empty and THEN your blood sugars will be lower than 8 in the morning. It can take months though. So forget the fasting blood sugars, they don't give an indication on how you're doing. Your measurements before and after food however, do. <em>And those say you're rocking this low carb thing!</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 2633629, member: 401801"] What do we want? Remission! When do we want it? Now! It'll take a little bit longer than that, I'm afraid. As you know from the above replies, Dawn Phenomenon plays a role. For quite a while now, your liver has been storing the glucose you couldn't burn off due to your insulin resistance... Your liver is, therefore, rather full of the stuff. And in the morning it helpfully dumps some of it to help you get your day started. The morning fasting numbers are the last to come down, but consider this: If it's out of your liver and in your bloodstream, it is on its way out of your body, which is a good thing! (Most T2 diabetics have non-alcoholic fatty liver diseae, and this helps get that sorted!) So while I know being high in the morning isn't exactly fun, it isn't bad, per sé, if you're depleting what's stored in the liver, and through low carb you're not topping up the stores any longer... Eventually your liver'll be running on empty and THEN your blood sugars will be lower than 8 in the morning. It can take months though. So forget the fasting blood sugars, they don't give an indication on how you're doing. Your measurements before and after food however, do. [I]And those say you're rocking this low carb thing![/I] [/QUOTE]
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