Ahh, I didn't realise fruit fibre was regarded as high carb, I assumed (wrongly) it would be fairly healthy. I will look into healthier options for my breakfast.
It is not that Fruit and Fibre isn't healthy, it is just that it is likely to shoot your BG levels up quite a lot without you having insulin to balance it.
What you need to understand is that all carbohydrates (sugars and starchy foods) are converted to glucose by our digestive system and absorbed into the blood stream. If your body is struggling to produce enough insulin and you don't have any to inject, then eating high carb foods will push your BG levels up because you don't have enough home produced insulin to cover the glucose that food releases. Eating low carb foods will not add very much extra glucose to your blood so your remaining beta cells have more chance of coping or reducing the surplus in your blood.
A low carb breakfast can be bacon, sausage, eggs and mushrooms and a tomato minus the bread/hash browns/toast or just a very small portion(ie half a slice of toast, or one hash brown or a few beans. This will have much less impact on your BG levels, so whilst it might seem less healthy than your Fruit and Fibre it may not be for you at the moment as it will not add to your already elevated BG levels and definitely a less problematic treat than the pudding you turned down earlier.
Some health Care Professionals have bought into (or been misinformed) that low GI works for everyone and is better for diabetics when in reality it may not be and is a lot less effective than reducing those high carb foods altogether. In this case, if you are Type 1 then it is a short term measure until you start on insulin after your holiday, when you will then learn to count carbs and adjust your insulin doses, but whilst you are away, if you have the option of a cooked breakfast and you fancy it, you will almost certainly find it doesn't spike your levels so high..... and it can make up for missing out on that dessert you were restrained enough to refuse earlier.
An omelette is another low carb option or maybe eggs Florentine if it is a posh place (poached on a bed of spinach) but go easy on the toast/bun/muffin it is served on or the same for eggs Benedict (poached with ham and cheese/hollandaise sauce). Maybe just have half the bread it is served on.
If you want a light low carb breakfast, natural yoghurt with seeds and a few berries is what many of us have.
Fruit juice would be best to avoid for now. Many people use it as a hypo treatment to bring levels up fast when they are too low.. ie it contains a lot of (natural) sugar.... just thinking of the sort of breakfast options you might have in a hotel and what you might be tempted to eat or drink.
The thing is that it doesn't matter how low GI a food is purported to be, if it contains a lot of carbs, your body will break them down and they will enter your blood stream and push your BG levels up.
As you are on holiday, you may fancy a drink and it might also be useful to know that dry wine is low in carbs as are spirits with or without a diet mixer but beer and cider and sweet wine/port and liqueurs are higher carb, so if you fancy an occasional drink, those lower carb options will have much less impact on your levels.
I would like to reiterate that if you are Type 1, this need only be a short term stop gap measure to keep your levels reasonable under control until you get insulin and learn to balance it. I just wanted you to know that it doesn't have to be all restraint and that there are things you can treat yourself to, once you understand the type of foods which will inflate your BG levels and the ones which wont. Basically things made with grains and sweet or starchy root veg and fruit will but protein and fat to a much lesser extent.
Hope you enjoy breakfast in the morning.
😉
