Hi, there
@Lorilo 🙂 Welcome to the forum!
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I get where your coming from about breakfast: never really been a breakfast person & only started eating it since 2015 at my DSN team’s suggestion to help control my morning reading better; it REALLY does!
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You see, contrary to common sense, not eating breakfast can make your blood sugars, sorry I’m old school & that’s the term used when I was diagnosed 19 years ago, go higher & higher until you do eat!
The problem is that we humans come with “batteries included”, as it were, in that the liver stores glucose & trickles it out a little at a time to keep all of our organs etc. going 24/7! There’s something called “Dawn Phenomenon” in which most people wake up with extra glucose in the blood released from the liver to help us start the day: a biological throwback to our “Stone Age Man” days when we had to catch breakfast in the morning before we could eat!
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Eating actually helps as it switches off that extra sugar dump by your liver in the morning!
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I have to tell you eating breakfast was very strange to me & a struggle to start with but, I stuck with it, by & large, & it really makes a difference! Now, 5 years on I still DON’T eat breakfast SOME of the time BUT, I DO eat something when I first get up: half an oatcake; just to stop the DP (Dawn Phenomenon) rise with half my usual breakfast dose of insulin until I eat lunch!
Everyone is an individual & I had to work out what, how much to eat & how much insulin to have in the morning to stop that DP rise. For some protein like cheese or a slice of chicken or sandwich meat works for them: my DSN team in 2015 suggested a slice of toast which didn’t really work for me! Learnt from the forum that bread in general, unless low carb & high protein, is a problem for breakfast! I found oatcakes worked much better for me but, still took a bit of experimentation & testing, that’s key experiment & test, to find the perfect amount, half of one, & the correct amount of insulin, half my dose, to switch off the liver’s dump of sugar without putting up my blood sugars!
There’s a very helpful thread on The Food forum “What did you eat yesterday” that could help give you an idea of what different members eat for breakfast, & the other meals of the day! Breakfast is the trickiest meal to get right, for most diabetics but, worth doing so as starting the day in target range usually means staying in target range for the rest of the day: most of the time; always the odd curve balls here & there as diabetes isn’t always a smooth journey!
Everybody is different & for me my blood sugars continue to rise until I eat something when I’m awake so, no I don’t tend to skip breakfast; even if it’s only half an oatcake. The only way you’ll find out how you react to what you eat & how much you eat is to try it, test & see the results on your blood sugars. But, reading around these forums with members from different types of diabetes can give you a very good idea of starting points & you can always post any questions you have & somebody will usually post with answers or helpful suggestions!
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You may also find this thread helpful as you experiment & test:-
Managing blood glucose levels for type 2 diabetes. Learning how to achieve long term control by testing and diet.
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