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10-08-2007, 06:53 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boston
Posts: 45
| | | What is your breakfast?
I usually eat cereal, but I am getting feedback from people here  thank goodness!!
So I am throwing this question. "What is your breakfast?"
Thanks,
Michiko |
10-08-2007, 06:59 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,577
| | | 1 piece flax or saw-dust bread, natural PB, homemade jelly (sweet!), and 1 cup 1% milk. I handle it very well with a pre-bolus.
Today I had homemade (scratch!) punkin pie. It has almost the full sugar, but it behaves very well too. Pumpkin is low sugar and high fibre.
In my experience quantity is much more important than quality in controlling post prandials. |
10-08-2007, 07:03 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Posts: 594
| | | Scrambled eggs, 1/3 c Udi's granola with a little skim milk, 1 sausage pattie.
Mark
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Dx May 2007
A1C @ Dx = 7.0
9/15/07 = 5.1 (Biosafe home test kit)
10/9/07 = 5.4
1/18/08 = 5.4
6/11/08 = 5.3
No meds - just diet and exercise |
10-08-2007, 07:04 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 6,258
| | | This morning, I had a high-protein chocolate drink (EAS Carb Advantage) and a few slices of cantaloupe. When I have time, i'll have a couple scrambled eggs with a couple pieces of bacon or a South Beach high-protein cereal bar.
Also, no rule that says you have to have breakfast foods for b/fast. I'll sometimes eat some turkey or ham wrapped around cheese, or have a spoon of peanut butter and an apple. I've had a couple of turkey franks (no bun) as well.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis)  |
10-08-2007, 07:12 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,577
| | | There's no rule that says you have to eat breakfast either. Sometimes I'll skip it, but that throws my liver into a tizzy and I need to at least double my lunchtime boluses. I find it very doable to skip then have a light snack in mid-morning. You have to test the **** out of these situations to find what works for you. |
10-08-2007, 07:30 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 6,258
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by xMenace  There's no rule that says you have to eat breakfast either. | Depends on what meds you take. When I took my metformin twice daily (instead of just at bedtime like I do now), if I didn't eat, I'd feel nauseous AND go low...not a fun combination.  Before diabetes, i'd never eat breakfast and do fine.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis) |
10-08-2007, 07:33 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boston
Posts: 45
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by princesslinda Depends on what meds you take. When I took my metformin twice daily (instead of just at bedtime like I do now), if I didn't eat, I'd feel nauseous AND go low...not a fun combination. Before diabetes, i'd never eat breakfast and do fine. | Ya.. I take Metformin twice a day now, and that is my experience. I usually ate one meal and two meals (if I was lucky) before the diagnose. So this is a huge change that I am eating three times a day....Since the diagnose on 9/11/07 I am eating three times.. wow.. that is a huge change in my life. |
10-08-2007, 08:42 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 6
| | | on days that i go to class i have 2 eggs scrambled 2 whole grain whole wheat slices of bread and coffee.
cereal on days that i dont if i wake up in time for breakfast. |
10-08-2007, 09:18 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: St. Charles, IL
Posts: 539
| | | Typically 2 fried eggs and 2 slices of whole grain toast or English muffin, buttered. One glass of 1% milk.
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10-08-2007, 09:33 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Corpus Christi, Tx
Posts: 95
| | | A big slab of cheesecake! No, just kidding. One of my favorite breakfasts is yogurt with a high fiber cereal mixed in. |
10-08-2007, 10:29 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Lakewood CA
Posts: 61
| | | small bowl of oatmeal mixed with blueberries and a little cottage cheese. |
10-08-2007, 10:31 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: SC
Posts: 602
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__________________ Captain Dave
Disabled Firefighter/Cheeseburger Lover   Don't hold your farts in, they'll travel up your spine and give ya crappy ideas! |
10-08-2007, 11:45 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The music wasteland of CT
Posts: 172
| | | Today it was a monster sized bowl of cereal with whole milk.
I usually have a whole quiche in the fridge that I can heat a piece of if I have time. Usually I just grab a slice of and eat cold when I need to run.
On the weekends I have what Capt Dave had.
Mike
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Can I get a little more bass in my monitor?
You obviously don't know how to have fun.
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10-09-2007, 06:52 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 8
| | | I am having a really hard time with my morning glucose readings. When I test at 3-4am my sugar will be normal (6.0), then by 7 am it rises to approx. 10.0. I do 2u of humalog to correct and it has almost no effect.
I usually inject 1u humalog /15 grams carbs.
In the am it is more like 3u/15 grams and I still spike really high before the humalog seems to work.
I am running out of ideas here. Its infuriating.
Whats almost worse is that if I skip breakfast, the phenomenon seems to transfer to the first meal I eat (i.e. lunch). Then when I eat my lunch at 12 pm I have to use the higher insulin to carb ratio and again I still get a spike in blood sugar.
I'm not sure what to try next. Any ideas????
I am currenbtly on 32 u of lantus at 1pm and bolus humalog as necessary with a humalog to carb ration of 1u:15g typically.
Thanks. |
10-09-2007, 06:55 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 4,564
| | | Usually it's one or two pieces of toasted light wheat bread (Stop & Shop brand) with spray butter or a small amount of peanut butter. Coffee with one Equal and lots of light cream.
Sometimes I'll make an omelet the night before and take that into work with me for breakfast. Also, Special K Protein Plus with Hoods Calorie Countdown Milk (3g carbs), a packet of Equal and a handful of walnuts fills me up and barely raises my blood sugar.
Karen |
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