Post Breakfast Readings

[Ronin]

Hi Everyone!

I've been tracking my BG levels between and hour to two hours after breakfast. I have noted that on the mornings when I am particularly hungry when I get up (around 0500) and have 140 grams of fruit (peaches, strawberries, or blueberries) with 50 grams of unflavored Fat Free Yogurt at around 0530-0545, and then have my usual breakfast of a Turkey-Ham & Fat Free Cheese Egg White omlette with one piece of toast and 1/4 cup orange juice at around 0730. My BG following breakfast tends to be lower (low 100's) versus the days when I don't have the fruit the post breakfast numbers tend to be between 110 to 115.

I find this strange, but perhaps it isn't.

Reminder: I'm a Pre-D and not on any medications trying to work exercise and eating to control the BG levels.

[duck]

Maybe it's the fructose or the fiber?

[slipperyelm]

Did you measure your blood glucose each day before eating? Perhaps the days you ate the fruit you were starting from a lower fasting blood glucose. Why did you choose to eat fruit those days? Could it be that you felt a little hungrier and lower waking BGs would reflect that your body was in need of a bit more fuel on the fruit days?

How many days of fruit versus no-fruit are we talking about here?

[Ronin]

Everyone:

Slipperyelm asked a good question: "How many days of fruit versus no-fruit are we talking about here?" The answer is that this is a pattern I've seen over the past four weeks when I started regular post meal testing. The results are very consistent over this time. My FBG taken at 0500 was 114. This morning (Tuesday 10 July) I had 140 grams of Strawberries and 50 grams of of yogurt with one packet of Equal at 0515 and my normal breakfast at 0730. My post breakfast (test at 0930) BG fell to 90!

This has me scratching my head about the whole Pre-D thing. My guess, and it is only a guess, is that the small carb load of the fruit gets my pancreas working, but the reaction of my pancreas is slow due to whatever is the underlying problem driving the Pre-D diagnosis. I cannot say that I am dissapointed as I really like that bit of fruit in the AM as a LARGE bowl of fruit used to be my breakfast and I miss it. 140 grams isn't a lot by comparison, but it satisfies a craving.

[ant hill]

My BG following breakfast tends to be lower (low 100's) versus the days when I don't have the fruit the post breakfast numbers tend to be between 110 to 115.

I find this strange, but perhaps it isn't.

Reminder: I'm a Pre-D and not on any medications trying to work exercise and eating to control the BG levels.

That's a good observation as I don't eat fruit much. Could it be said that the Flour, Rice, Potato, Is the main worry of our diet? :confused:
I have porridge with honey for my breakfast and find BG's are a little high but this stops my nibbling during the day so i feel satisfied :)

[Penny]

I have found certain fruits and vegetables help keep my post meal numbers down. Blueberries, strawberries, avocado, greens like fresh sprinach, beet tops, kale, nuts work too. I thought it must be the fiber.

[sweetstick80]

Could it be that the mornings you eat fruit your insulin level is spiking with your rapidly increasing bg. The heavy load of insulin in your system is carrying over to the high protien part of breakfast that you eat later holding that down as well.
On the mornings that you have the meat, eggs and toast with some juice your having a 2-1 carb to protien ratio that will extend you levels well past your testing time. Just a little something to chew on.....Jack Not pre-D, type 2 on insulin.

[BlueSky]

.... My BG following breakfast tends to be lower (low 100's) versus the days when I don't have the fruit the post breakfast numbers tend to be between 110 to 115. ....
Many of us experience rising BG before breakfast because of glucose produced by the liver. It is part of the DP effect. The effect you have noticed could be because the early morning fruit halts the production of hepatic glucose. It means that your blood glucose doesn't rise as much after breakfast as it otherwise would.