Fasting blood sugars

The only snack that works for me are the Almond butter granola cups from nature valley. If I eat them about an hour before bed, my fasting glucose is always below 95! I’ve tried a bunch of other things, but this has been consistently working. Good luck!

Mine is the same way, but unfortunately I ended up needing insulin over night because the fasting numbers are the hardest to control with diet alone. It worked for a little while but once my hormone levels increased even more diet alone didn’t do it anymore. The numbers after meals are still fine, though. Anyway, my experience is that what works for people is very different and you basically need to experiment with different combinations (high carbs vs. high protein, late snack or not, etc.). For me early dinners with few carbs worked better than anything else, and no late snack. I also get better readings when I’m well rested (sleep more). I realize that is the opposite of what works for some other people, so it really seems to be extremely different for people. But if you read up on the Dawn Effect and the Somogyi Effect it kind of makes sense that it would be different.

I've been trying to get fasting under control too... I'm usually around 112, but last night right before bed I had about 2 cups of popcorn, and this morning I was 101. Still too high, but at least lower than I was. I'm going to keep experimenting.

I’m not much help for the fasting numbers but I know in morning hours that HPL hormone is the highest so avoid milk,fruit and juice until later in the day

I take my insulin at dinner then wait an hour and half to two hours and check it, then before bed I have 1/4 cup low fat cottage cheese and about a 1/4 cup of berries then before I got to sleep I take my bedtime insulin and my fasting has been in the 80's. Fasting you just can't control and it sucks.

Mine are supposed to be under 80(guessing we measure differently, I’m in the US?) But they’re ALWAYS 90-99Everything else is good just like you. My dr says the fasting is a little high but not high enough for meds? Which worries me bc I already basically starve myself Cause I’m used to big portions and it’s hard eating a smaller amount. We’ll see I guess. I kinda want to be on meds so I can actually not be hungry for once.

Are you having a snack in between dinner and bed time? And make sure you don’t sleep more than 7-8 hours.

I’m in the same boat and unfortunately NOTHING I do impacts my fasting numbers. Snack/no snack, carb snack, protein snack or mixed... doesn’t matter. Even exercising was making them spike even more. Dr and endocrinology team have said that there’s not much that CAN be done that is consistently effective to reduce fasting numbers. So they suggested insulin at night only. Hasn’t been a big deal to do it, it doesn’t cross the placenta so now just working on proper dose. Metformin was another option but there are no long term studies about its effect on the baby and can be less effective than insulin for fasting numbers so I opted for insulin. I hope you find something that works for you to bring down the fasting numbers but don’t be discouraged if you can’t. It’s out of your control - it’s all placenta and taking insulin was waaaay less of a deal than I thought it would be. Good luck!

I've been trying different snacks each night to see which works best for me. So far the best is a serving of Greek yogurt and chugging a glass of water.I've also been walking for 30 minutes before dinner and my numbers have been lower each night

highly suggest the book “real food for GD”...i just. read it and it talks about fasting sugars...my fasting sugars tend to be higher fasting too...whats helped is to eat a late night snack right after i go to sleep...the author also suggests, as hard as this might be, to wake up in the middleof the night and have a snack so in the morning, it’ll be normal, she also says that working out at least 30 mins a day seems to lower fasting sugars...i tried the eating a snack before bed amd my fasting augar went from 100 (the highest ive had it) to 89...and by snack i mean, some almonds and berries or pistachios and string cheese (something light)