3 WAYS TO BALANCE YOUR BLOOD SUGAR

1 Start your day with a savory breakfast. Skip the juice, the coffee sweetness and cereals. Starting your day with a sweet breakfast will start the vicious cycle of blood glucose levels spiking and crashing. This leads to craving more sugar, caffeine and carbs thinking it will help with energy and feeling satiated.

Eggs cooked in butter with nitrate-free bacon or sausage with kale, spinach, sweet peppers or onions.

2 Reduce your stress levels. When we are stressed, it triggers our adrenals to pump out glucose for our fight or flight response. This raises blood glucose levels, which raises insulin levels as it tries to respond to the increase in glucose. If you are stressed trying to get out to work in the morning, try to plan ahead the night before to have everything ready so it is a less stressful activity. Take a look at what is causing you stress during your day and come up with a plan that will help you lesson that stressor.

3 It is not realistic to completely remove sugar from our lives. We have birthdays, weddings, family celebrations where we have opportunities to eat desserts and sweets. My suggestion is to eat these after a meal, when there is already a protein, healthy fat and veggies in your stomach, which will buffer that blood glucose spike when you have dessert. And then go for a walk! Moving your body in some way after eating a sweet will help your muscles burn off that extra glucose right away!