Siobhan:
You may already have experimented and found this doesn't apply to you,
but: many diabetics find that eating zero calories for breakfast
INcreases their BG. Presumably it's the liver that's decided "It's
morning! You need tsome glucose to get going!"
Two things that work for me:
Berries. They don't raise my BG much, and fruit is about the only thing
my stomach actually wants first thing in the morning (besides potatoes,
bread, regular Coke, etc....)
Canned tuna or salmon mixed with hardboiled eggs I use three per can,
but that's kind of high on the fat) plus a little bit of lemon-herb
tartar sauce. Almost zero carbs, plus you make it ahead of time so you
can just grab it out of the fridge first thing in the morning. (I like
cooking, but I HATE getting up in the morning; cooking on weekdays means
I have to get up earlier so I rarely do it.)
There are also some breads that actually are low carb (subtracting the
fiber, of course); most of them I find rather sour-tasting so they need
a little jam on them. There is some bread out from either Brownberry
or Pepperidge Farm (IIRC) that has the Atkins logo on it that's fairly
low carb (and no sugar alcohols). It tastes fine to me; the only thing
I don't like is that it's kind of fluffy. I like bread that's heavy.
All that said, I take 3 to 5 units of Humalog every morning to
counteract my liver.
Siobhan Perricone wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 02:55:03 GMT, Priscilla Ballou >
> wrote:
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>>>Anybody suggest a good breakfast for a newly diagnosed type 2?
>>>I'm stuck on porridge oats at the moment, but they are a bit fussy first
>>>thing in the morning. I need something a bit more instant.
>>
>>I can't handle oats at any hour of the day. Spikes me to kingdom come.
>>I have omelets or bacon and eggs most mornings.
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>
> My morning readings are still higher than I like them. I usually have the
> same sorts of things you have on the weekends, but during the work week I
> just have sugar free jello (no carbs) and hot tea for breakfast.
>
> I really should walk more in the evenings to get my BG down more in the
> mornings.
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