Nutritionist called out my morning routine, but she was right

I used to slam a green smoothie with frozen mango and spinach every day at 7am, thinking I was being healthy. A nutritionist friend watched me make it and said the sugar load was spiking my glucose before I even sat down at my desk. She suggested adding a scoop of protein powder and a spoon of almond butter, so the fiber and fat would slow things down. I wore a CGM for two weeks last month to test it, and my post-smoothie spike dropped from 145 to 112 after the change. Anyone else tweak their smoothie ratios after seeing real glucose data on a monitor?

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adam_baker16d ago

Dude yes, the CGM is such a wake up call. I was doing basically the same thing, banana, berries, spinach, oat milk, and I was hitting like 150 after breakfast and then crashing hard by 10am. Added a scoop of vanilla whey and a big spoon of peanut butter and mine dropped to right around 115, pretty much the same as yours. The weird part is I actually stay full till lunch now too, which I did not expect at all.

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