5 Best/Worst Breakfasts for Diabetics – 2023 (Diabetic Breakfast Ideas)

Wonderful advice! I just got into Keto about 6 weeks ago, realizing I’d been eating totally wrong for the past year (oatmeal for breakfast, for example). I’d quit sugar about 2 years ago and the best thing I’ve noticed is that I no longer get those horrible muscle cramps! I’d had them for 30 years. Now, without the sugar, leg cramps are a thing of the past! If somebody had told me about this, I’d have quit sugar 30 years ago!

I’m type 1 and I add a small handful of blueberries and a couple raspberries to my plain Greek yogurt and I find the rise in my blood sugar to be minimal. But having too many berries can definitely cause it to spike

@Margie Guyot Me too. They raise my blood sugar much slower. I find i can eat anything as long as the servings tightly controlled.

I have been diabetic for at least 15 years (maybe many more without knowing it). I have been on keto for at least one year but my blood sugar got definitely more under control when I did intermittent fasting. When I am on a strict 18/6 fasting scheme and sometimes add a 24 hour fast my insulin sensitivity increases significantly, Without fasting I had to take about 40-50 units of fast acting insulin per day even on keto. Now I need under 10 units per day and I have lost 20 pounds. My doc says that I should not fast more than 24 hours. I am not sure about this.

My sister “turned me on” to you. This is the first video I watched. I was eating 4 of the 5 bad things for breakfast you listed. It was quite sobering. I have been a type 2 diabetic for years and I knew better. I’m now following your advice and going low carb and high fat. My blood sugar is now stable in the high 90s and my A1C is down to 6%. I expect it to be even lower next doctor’s visit. My doctor will be even more pleased. I’m hoping he will take me off metformin then.

I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes this past January with an A1c of 8.9 First, thank you so much for the HOPE you gave me in that I had a sense of having control over my well being. My sister recommended your site as someone recommended it from her hospital to her. I immediately put into practice your suggestions and this was the 1st video I watched. My test results just came back my A1c is 6.6 and NO meds. Fortunately, my Dr. trusted me enough, because the meds she originally prescribed i couldn’t keep down and after 1 week of no meds and showing her my blood sugar levels had dropped significantly (245 down to 115) after just 1 week of your “human diet” no insulin was prescribed. After my recent visit, her advice to me was to continue with my “healthy diet”.

I ate a big bowl of oatmeal with pecans, walnuts, cinnamon, banana and a pinch of maple syrup. 1 hour later I had a massive headache. After pounding some water and a 20 minute resistance workout I feel better. And I was sooo close to cooking two eggs and bacon with avocado instead. Lesson learned! Thanks for helping me confirm what my body was telling me.

@Daniel Dravot I have to say…yes and no to that bacon issue…it all depends on how it was PROCESSED!!! Bacon is a PROCESSED meat. One of the things to think of as healthy is….the PROCESS!!! I prefer to buy my meats from the local butcher shop, which makes garlic smoked bacon. Best there ever is!! No nitrates. And as for salt, animal meat has it’s own salt so I never add salt to my meats. If it tastes that bad and has to be “doctored” up so much, I’ll skip it, thank you. The history of steak sauces was to cover up the taste of the “spoiled” meat because many years ago there wasn’t refrigeration like today. Dried was best and then they went to canning meat. If you think of cooking in bacon grease is bad….than skip that…..cut off the fat from pork roasts and use that! It’s homemade lard. I save EVERY sort of fat and grease and use it for cooking or for soups. Chicken fat/grease; turkey grease; beef fat/grease; ham grease; pork fat/grease. I can’t remember the time I ever had vegetable oil in my house??? And as for animal bones……the BEST SOURCE of collagen….which they are now coming around to saying how important that is in our diets……that was a regular staple to boil bones for gelatin when I grew up. Boiled pig’s feet with onions and garlic….served with vinegar and black pepper is considered a delicacy in Slavic cuisine. Cabbage and any Cole crop vegetable is DAILY fare on the table…..If I ever had to eat breakfast, I’d choose sauerkraut and kolbasi (not the garbage from the supermarket) over cereal any day!

As for that fasting fad…….. grew up on a family farm and ONLY ever ate ONE MEAL A DAY! Dinner. Never had time for breakfast and hardly ever ate lunch, usually not hungry or no time to stop and eat. I can now go an entire day or two even and NEVER feel hunger pains…..my bane….and I sort of have known this for many years was milk! Never had sweets or candy cravings as a kid because I was getting all the sugar I wanted in that GALLON of REAL cow’s milk I drank everyday. But then again, I worked long hard hours all my life until around 57 which started putting fat on me. So I either buy a farm and work 12 hours a day or get TWO hard-labor JOBS to work off my food intake. The Amish work hard all day long and if you saw what they ate you’d be shocked!!! But they are CONSTANTLY working. Hard physical manual labor….like we use to do…..Now we modern sedentary lazy humans have to eat Keto?!! LOL

Maury Povich had a woman on his show that was deathly afraid of pickles. She worked with a mental coach so by the end of the show was able to sit calmly next to a plate of dill pickles without running away and screaming. It’s all just mental tricks and crutches.

I hope you don’t have blood pressure issues. Bacon is not healthy for anyone, no matter what the diet

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I was just diagnosed as prediabetic a few days ago—6.2 and you’re officially diabetic at 6.5. I already had a feeling I was heading there which was why I ordered the physical but luckily I already watched most of my starchy carbs like not eating potatoes, French fries, cereal, etc. It’s sugar laden coffee and other sweets like condiments that were killing me. I threw out half of the contents of our fridge and cabinets that same night and my husband was ultra-convinced that plain oatmeal and bananas are super safe which I’ve always doubted – SO GLAD I FOUND THIS VIDEO! Now I have receipts!

You tube has a super fast keto English muffin replacement you could maybe move to. Or continue limiting, from your daily one half to every other day, then one day sundays! Either way, you are right it is the big picture that matters most. Good luck.

congratulations but I can’t do a strict keto diet….I can do Mediterranean….I started about a month ago no candy, although I did slip up one day..I don’t drink juice….now I will skip the cereal….trying to incorporate more low carb/lo carb foods…..

@Sonya Me I would love to check that out, pls

@Kimberly Hart of course, but I need an email to send them

Don’t let the naysayers get to you. No matter how “bad” half a muffin might be, if it keeps you from ditching the diet and going back to more unhealthy ways, it’s worth it. In my opinion the main thing that destroys diets is going at it too hard and essentially, setting yourself up to fail. Good luck and keep up the good work.

Try milk kefir combined with your avocado to make mayonnaise. The milks sugar is largely consumed by the kefirs fermentation process, resulting in its sourish taste. A dash of apple cider vinegar perhaps too. I reckon that’ll work really well.

@Dawn Nelson, you can easily make your own mayonnaise using egg, avocado oil, an dry mustard powder, which is better than anything you can buy. Or use any neutral oil.

The more frequently you fast, and the longer you fast, the more hours you spending in autophagy, and the easier it gets. The benefits are enormous. Time to fire your doctor.

Hey doc, was diagnosed about a year ago being pre diabetic. Blood sugar stayed around 85-120. Recently it has spiked up to this morning to 256! Scared me out of my mind seeing that. Tried metForman at the doctors insisting. Never lowered my blood sugar in fact made it spike for several days. Side effects were even-more scary. Extreme dizziness, head aches and massive fatigue. Stopped after one week. I will going focus on your diet recommendations and check in with some results

Metforman is terrible shouldn’t be used as all. More people have problems with it. Mine always spike in the morning.

Sounds like you need a long black coffee with cream.
No sugar in pouring cream..
And tastes beautiful and decadent

@john unsicker Which one should be taken if not Metmorphin.? I know it saps you of all nutrients from the body and makes you mentally and physically weak. But it controls sugar levels

One important keypoint, my mom has diabetes and I had her check her blood sugar several times a day for a few weeks to see when and why her blood sugar jumps high, not only the food you consume but what you do after eating can have a significant effect on your blood sugar. I noticed that if I take my mom to walk after a meal that sky rockets her blood sugar, walking for 30 mins incredibly helps her cells to open and take that sugar in the blood and reduce the blood sugar as if she took insulin (she does not take insulin) , just walking after the meals help a lot to reduce the sugar levels as probably body / cells realize that there is a energy loss during the walk and that they will need energy,. Also I suggest to get one of these walkingpads that do not occupy much space at home and that are fordable, if its not easy to go out to walk after meals, you can get on the walking pad and walk for 30mins, or 10 mins at least, if you are diabetic you should maybe buy one of those glucose meters to place on your arm or belly and to watch for a few weeks at least to see which foods spike your blood sugar, how walking (and after how many mins after a meal)helps to reduce your blood sugar level. Also if you are eating a lot of carbs , it might take a few weeks for the body to adjust to the diets and to start having normal blood sugars , in first days to weeks , even if you eat healthy you might still experience high blood sugar, another important keypoint is , if you have a lot of fat stored in your body , even if you eat healthy, that stored fat in body plays a role in how your body / cells will react to the food you eat, and if you will have high glucose levels, so need to get rid of the fat as much as you can too

I’m watching this in 2023. I have been dealing with gout for the last four years. Recently, I’ve been diagnosed as prediabetic. The foods you are suggesting cures one of my symptoms but worsen the other. As a gout sufferer, I’m told I am not supposed to consume red meat, ie, bacon, steak. I’ve recently started eating eggs again albeit cautiously because the yolk contains arachidonic acid which is highly inflammatory. I’ve been eating veggies and fruits but have now transitioned to leafy green veggies ie, kale, cabbage, lettuce, etc. I eat a small slice of ripe papaya with my eggs in the morning. I’m lost! I’d appreciate your wisdom or anyone in a similar situation. Lastly, fasting is bad for gout because it raises your uric acid and again it is great for diabetes. Thank you