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Can exercise create short term spikes in BG, before lowering it? My normal average pre-lunch BG is around 6.6mmol and seldom above 6.7. Today after my LCHF breakfast I went out on a 22 mile bike ride – a fairly hard one involving some serious hill ascents.
When I got home I thought I’d test my BG to see how the exercise had lowered it, but much to my surprise it was 7.1. I think my maximum ever has been about 6.9 before lunch.
I ate about 45 minutes later – a low carb lunch of celery soup and a couple of thick streaky pork slices.
Two hours later I tested expecting my BG to show its normal small rise but to my great surprise it had fallen to 5.7, my ‘normal’ post-prandial BG is in in the 6s.
Any suggestions?
When I got home I thought I’d test my BG to see how the exercise had lowered it, but much to my surprise it was 7.1. I think my maximum ever has been about 6.9 before lunch.
I ate about 45 minutes later – a low carb lunch of celery soup and a couple of thick streaky pork slices.
Two hours later I tested expecting my BG to show its normal small rise but to my great surprise it had fallen to 5.7, my ‘normal’ post-prandial BG is in in the 6s.
Any suggestions?
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