Blood sugar patterns to master as a type 2 diabetic

Suffice to say, if you experience this protein effect, you could:

Which leads us to the next pattern…

I’ve found that low-intensity, long-duration exercise (like walking, running, biking, and swimming) almost always lowers your blood sugar. I used to experience this every morning, and apparently people call it Dawn Phenomenon:

Dawn Phenomenon itself is well-understood: our liver dumps sugar (that is, it converts our stored glycogen into blood sugar) to ready us for the day ahead. For example, if you notice that consuming carbs for breakfast (the “carb effect” pattern) after a night of little sleep (the “sleep and stress” pattern) spikes your blood sugar particularly badly, you can make a note to skip breakfast whenever you’re running low on sleep.

Source: diabetic.fyi