Ok, so I'm a little frustrated right now. I woke up with a BS of 82. Great. Then I ate a typical breakfast that I've had before: Scrambled eggs with cheese on a sandwich thin with a little bit of Light Mayo. I added sausage links but there's no carbs so it shouldn't affect my bs at all. I had 8 oz of milk with it but I have 8 oz of milk every morning. I shot up to 102! Why?! I know it's still within the normal range but I didn't do anything new. Does anyone else have this happen to them? I feel like if I'm going to shoot up by 20 it should be because I cheated and had something I shouldn't! Grrrr.
Re: Anyone else get weird BS jumps for no reason???
Your blood sugar is supposed to go up if you have carbs and milk. That is completely normal and well within range. I can't even have milk for breakfast or I'd get a terrible number.
Did someone clearly explain to you how this works?
Well milk does have sugar so it could be that. But you say you normally have milk every morning so idk. Cheese and milk are both dairy carbs so maybe that was an overload for one meal? My meal plan doesn't have 2 dairys for any meal. Sausage sometimes has added sugar/syrup in it to flavor the meat. I honestly don't know about the lite mayo you're using but I do know that lower fat foods in general often have added sugar to balance the loss of fat for taste. Check your ingredient labels, not just the carb/sugar amounts. If it says "sugar" then it's added sugar which is not as healthy as naturally occuring sugars found in foods like dairy. I learned these sneaky things when I was eating low carb to lose weight.
I don't know if any amount of explaning makes it more clear. DH has diabetes so I'm more in the know and my numbers are still all over. This am I had 2 canned biscuits (horrible yes I know) with 2 eggs and milk. My mg/dl was 134, higher than yesterday's breakfast of the same thing plus grits and 2 pieces of sausage! (i was hungry btw lol)
It's the fat from the sausage. But really why are you complaining about your wonderful numbers and the fact that you can drink milk? Sorry to be mean but I don't get to drink milk.
A jump of 20 after eating a meal is normal. And I would kill to get 102's after drinking milk - milk is a big part of the reason I'm on insulin.
Now if you jumped from 80 to say, 160, then I'd be concerned. But 102 is a great number.
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I wasn't concerned about the 82 because I ate a few things last night that I shouldn't have so I kind of expected it. I really was just frustrated that my bs jumped from eating a breakfast that I've had before and it only increased maybe 5 or 6 at the most.
Everyone left helpful info. Just because you may not have liked exactly what they said, or didn't want to hear it, doesn't mean it wasn't helpful. You need to remember that some will have it much better or much worse than you so try to remain sensitive to that when you post here.
I'm glad you thought it was all helpful. And it's been good for me to see that other people have it harder than I do so when I feel sorry for myself I can see how good I actually have it. I was just using this as a place to vent to people that understand but I will find a different outlet next time.