Exercise and MDI
So I'm getting a bit frustrated trying to mix exercise with insulin injections.
Here's the deal:
- I like to work out first thing in the morning
- I wake up in the 7s and 8s (126- 144) although I'd like to be lower
- I'm hungry right when I get up
- When I exercise, my bgs drop as much as 5 mmols depending on what I do.
So if I have breakfast before I work out and don't take insulin, my blood sugar is high enough to prevent a low, but then I'm just burning off what I ate, so what's the point?
If I wait to have breakfast, I have lows. Maybe not the dangerous lows, but enough that I get shaky and frantic and light-headed.
I've tried eating a little bit, like a half a banana just to bring my sugar up enough to work out and have breakfast later, but then, same problem, I'm just eating to exercise.
Any thoughts on what I could do? I prefer working out in the morning because it fits into my routine the best.
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Permalink Reply by Holger Schmeken on -
As a preparation for my excercise I will eat 20g to 30g of carbs. Often this will be juice and sometimes with a low starting number I will eat some glucose tabs. This number of carbs will fuel one hour of regular exercise on the cross trainer.
I think exercise is the best thing for type 1 diabetics. I does something very important despite the fitness. It will build up muscles and these muscles are mainly responsible for our basic metabolic rate (the calories we burn per hour). The higher the better. The more muscles the more sensitive we will become to insulin. Another positive effect is that physical activity will change the sensitivity of the insulin receptors of our cells (up regulation).
This is why I am not a friend of low carbing. There is a high potential of under-suppliying the body with carbs and proteins. As a result the body will reduce the muscles because they are consuming carbs needed otherwise. This will lead to a lower metabolic rate and makes us more prone to erratic fluctuations of our blood glucose.
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