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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
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- Diet only
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- Daily Mail, you know the sort
...... also looking at your training log you train hard, my own beliefs and experience tell me a LCHF diet may not be suited to your level of energy expenditure.....
I think you have hit the nail on the head Bravo2zero.
I'm not a great sleeper. I have an Iphone sleeptimer app and I'm only getting 4hours quality sleep a night with a couple of hours lighter/disturbed sleep. So, rather than being a diet thing, I think, I'm just not getting enough rest for the level of exercise I'm doing (2hrs a day). I had noticed that even my shorter runs were starting to suffer too as I was unable to hold a decent pace for 15 mins instead of the usual 45. As I have upped my training regime I have clearly gone beyond the point that my sleeping patterns can cope and I'm progressively going into the negative side of the balance.
So I'm going to back right off for a couple of weeks then start building back to a more focussed exercise regime with 3x runs per week as a rule and only one extra cardio session and weights session.
As for the sleep.... well that's a long standing problem caused by work stress which I can't seem to alter even though I've been retired for over a year.