Is There Any Point In Eating Cereals

[novorapidboi26]

Hiya

Have you tried no cereal? You probably have but thought I would mention it anyway.

For Jessica she gets a mid morning spike even if she eats no breakfast and so we have a really high basal set at 5 am to deal with the 10 am high (lots of the kids have this). However this doesn't help with those on MDI but just shows what has to be done on a pump to conquer this silly midmorning or earlier high level.

It might be worth just cutting out all cereal for a week to see what happens and eating the yoghurt and fruit or scrambled eggs and bacon and one piece of seeded or nutty bread.

Could be worth a try maybe. 🙂

I actually never used to have breakfast, but because of the dawn phenomenon I was never coming down on target for lunch, even with a correction in the morning, so some how having a little something accompanied by matching insulin seems to do the trick, but yes, there are sometimes when I would rather not have breakfast......

I might try the muesli and yogurt option as I am up at 6.30 and out the door for 7.05 and still need to get washed and dressed......

 

[Robster65]

Just for reference...

Tesco unsweetened wholegrain muesli (in a blue bag) with bits of twigs and field mice still in it (other brands are available).

Plus low fat plain yoghurt.

I am a pig, so I have 90g muesli + 150g yoghurt (weighed) which I then mash up to a nice sticky mess and eat like a small child with a bowl of chocolate pudding. I inject about 10 units of humalog for this carb-combo.

I did think it could be livened up with a tiny bit of honey in the yoghurt but don't say I said so. 😱

Rob

 

[FM001]

Just for reference...

Tesco unsweetened wholegrain muesli (in a blue bag) with bits of twigs and field mice still in it (other brands are available).

Twigs and field mice, I wonder how many carbs are in those.😉 Your post reminds me of when I was a child and my mother would buy a great big bag of weetaflakes for us all, tasted like cardboard and needed the same quantity of sugar in the bowl to hide the taste.

 

[shiv]

Rob, that's the exact brand I bought (looking forward to the field mice - crunchy ) That and their greek yoghurt - I wanted to buy full fat greek yoghurt and it was really hard to find, everything is 0% and low fat and reduced fat etc! Found some in the end though! I also got some muller light yoghurts in fruity flavours.

 

[caffeine_demon]

Twigs and field mice, I wonder how many carbs are in those.😉 Your post reminds me of when I was a child and my mother would buy a great big bag of weetaflakes for us all, tasted like cardboard and needed the same quantity of sugar in the bowl to hide the taste.

ahh weetaflakes - that's one I haven't seen for awhile!, used to quite like those!

 

[Alan S]

Continuous monitoring of the 'non-diabetic' control group in a recent multinational study revealed that nearly all of the subjects exceeded 7.8mmol/l at some point in the day.Some for considerable periods. Ten percent of the subjects reached levels over 11.1mmol/l . (which of course would be a diagnosis of diabetes if reached on a lab test on more than one occasion)

I think that latter statement needs to be read in context with other studies that show a similar proportion of the population are undiagnosed diabetics or pre-diabetics.

Take any large random sample of the population and at least 7% will be undiagnosed diabetics.

In my own experience testing friends and family over several years after Christmas dinners (our equivalent of Thanksgiving as a family feast here) the few who exceeded 8mmol/L (144) an hour later almost all were subsequently diagnosed. Only one was not, and I am about to argue with my son's doctor about that. All of the remainder tested under 6 mmol/L.

In my early years after diagnosis I tested my wife every single time she had a cut or graze. She has never tested over 5.6 (101) regardless of the time of day.

 

[donnarob]

Hi Guys,

Had 2oz of Porridge with made with water/milk this morning and had half a pear.

First thing this morning reading was 7.0

1 hour after breakfast 12.5 !!
2 hours after breakfast 7.8

I will test again in another hour and let you know the outcome.

Donna