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I do a very intensive 40 minute weightlifting. and recently after I had gained weight my blood sugars (FL) will increase after this exercise. My A1cs do not change by much. If I eat too many carbs on the day before exercise, especially fruit, my sugars will also increase. When my weight was 10...

You mentioned at the start that your BMI is high. This may be a factor in the difference between your after meal readings and the A1c results. The fat especially around the liver is readily available for turning into glucose. If your body is used to a higher average level of glucose this may...

And maybe she/he is a candidate for some heavy stand up crocodile rocking,:) I.e. weightlifting.

Hi Jacquie S: I have always had different results from eating porridge at different times of the day and different seasons of the year. I always get a desire for more carbs in the autumn which I think is part of our bodies wanting to store up surplus fats for winter energy and heating. (A...

Thanks ianpspurs (not Tottenham I hope?). The 12 years was just following the 'easy' way of the doctors' orders. When my diabetic 'specialist' told me in May of 2018, "I cannot do anything more for you, you are on your own." Thank God I wasn't, since all the specialist did was to say I needed an...

Terrific OzBlossom. Keep up what you are doing and if possible add some intense exercise. I understand this forces the glucose into the muscles and the muscles remember why the glucose, now at a lower level, is there and relearns how to absorb it with the help of a lower internal insulin level.

Recently I was able to get back to weight-lifting at the gym. Back in March this caused my bg level to drop. 4 months and about 8lbs later, the exercise puts my bg levels up. But as I drop weight (mine not the exercise) the increase is gradually getting less. I put weight on around my waist...

After just over 2 years on a low carb diet, lots of weight-lifting, this forum and prayer at church my doctor has said that I am no longer diabetic!! My last A1c was 6.2 and was the 4th in a row below the 'danger line' in Canada of 6.5. If my next A1c is still in the non-diabetic range (January...

Hi Tessy89. I am also so-called mature onset and over the last 2 years I have got my A1cs down to below the diabetic level. My last test was 6.2 ml. I still get the dawn phenomenon. It can be affected by any meal/snack before going to bed. I try and keep my snack to no more than 6 carbs even...

Congratulations Paul. It looks like you are on the right track. Keep going.

Hi KK123: Could be enlightened or could be happy that I only take a few minutes for prescription renewal and she gets paid for the normal consultation time.;). Probably a little of both.

Hi again. It certainly sounds like you are taking this process carefully. A few weeks after I first went on insulin I was not hitting the pre-meal (that is several hours after last meal) desired bg level. My specialist said to gradually increase the insulin until I hit his target. I followed...

Hi Paul. Low carb is definitely the way to go. I definitely suggest going on the "low carb diet" available at this web site. If nothing else it provides a way of finding out the carbs in all the foods you are eating. As Jo said above, I wish I'd been told this 12+ years ago when I entered the...

I sometimes get light headed when my bg is dropping, not always when it is going very low. At the moment I am trying to maintain an A1c of below 6.5 that I got to with a lot of weight-lifting. I am lucky to have a Freestyle Libre so can quickly check to see if the feelings are bg or something...

I am probably wrong but I suspect that many older people, say over 75, with T2 diabetes are from a protocol where drug dependence was considered the only way to "treat" diabetes. With the low carb diet promoted on this forum I hope to live well beyond my mid-seventies with little or no drug...