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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

7.5on waking at 7:20am. 50 mins walk, still fasting, brought it to 9.2. An hour in the gym, still fasting, 8.4. Pre cup of coffee with cream, 7.1.

Conclusion: it would appear my BG is not amenable to lengthy fast. Going to have to try to reintroduce breakfast.

HbA1c 51. Highest it has been in years.
 
Very keen to know if eating breakfast helps.
 
5.5 for me this morning. A little higher than I usually see, can’t think why other than potentially a particularly late dinner.
 
Mine doesn't respond to missing breakfast ..keeps rising till I eat something ...crazy isn't it .
 
Well @mojo37 and @Deborah5832 , I think perhaps I will shift my eating window. I really don’t feel like eating early in the day, but perhaps it would solve my problem. I have tried coffee with cream, first thing in morning, but that makes no difference to when I don’t break fast until afternoon.
This morning, despite not eating since 19:30pm last night when I had grilled salmon, mushrooms in garlic butter and sliced green beans, my fasting level today was 8.7 at 7:45am. For breakfast I ate a couple of spoons of full fat yogurt with 6 walnut halves and a cup of black coffee. Two hours later and having had another black coffee and had walked a lot, reading was 6.4.

Going to have 8 hour eating window 9:00 until 17:00 for a week or two to see if that makes a difference.
 

It is all trial and error ( I make plenty of the latter ) I ve tried walking for 1/2 before breakfast but that increases my bg ..not by much but still an increase. I am struggling with reducing my carbs some days more than others. When I say reducing they are greatly reduced on what I would eat "normally" .
 
 
Hi All , My first post and as a "silver surfer" hope its going to work. Interesting stuff as my readings follow those of Pipp below. Despite a sensible evening meal and no snacking my wake-up reading was 8.8. A bowl of porridge with blueberries followed by a game of golf and down to 6.4. My diabetes nurse advises no late evening meals which might be the culprit.
 
Hello, @CCFCfan . Welcome. Is that Cardiff City? Coventry City? Or am I with the wrong sport?

How soon after waking did you eat breakfast? I have been thinking that I need to eat immediately after waking to stop the rise in BG numbers.

As you are new here, I am attaching the recommended info for new members, just in case you hadn’t already seen it. Sorry if it is stating the obvious, but have a read, and do join in conversations in threads. Or even start your own.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/basic-information-for-newly-diagnosed-diabetics.17088/

I also have other info in my signature. (Which I really must check for relevance, as it is a while since I did).
 
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