One of the biggest culprits for higher blood glucose in the morning is the liver. It trickles out glucose 24 hours a day to keep your brain and vital organs ticking over, and in the wee small hours, it starts increasing its efforts towards dawn in case you're a cave man and have to get up and go out hunting /foraging for breakfast. It could be that because you didn’t eat very much yesterday, it felt it had to compensate a bit more, in case no food was forthcoming today!Do people know why when not eaten a lot the day before why my blood sugar is higher than my normal. Through no fault of my own and staying in a town I don’t know and a hotel that didn’t serve food I ate about 700 calories yesterday. However my fasting BS is 6.9 this morning higher than been for 4 weeks. Have been able to keep between 5-6 so just surprised today. Anyone got any thoughts?
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