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- Type of diabetes
- LADA
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- Insulin
Hi everyone,
I'm having some issues with my blood sugar during exercise, in this case cycling. I started cycling to and from work, about 40-45min and I'm not a pro cycler, so fairly slow.
In the morning, I take my lantus, around 5 units atm, and a banana and I'm good to go. I spike to about 8.1/8.2 briefly but by the time I get to work am down to around 5.5/5.6, all good.
During the day I eat low carb and been mainly hovering between 5.5 and 6.6 after lunch and back down.
However, most of the week now I struggle to get home on the bike.
First time I ate a banana a bit late, about 15min before i cycled, so I dropped from around 6.6 to 3.8 by the time I got home.
Next time i ate the banana earlier, about 30mins before -same result, had to stop and take some glucose tablets too as I was around 4.7 and still far from home.
The other thing is, once I get home, I usually eat some carbs and go to training, but due to corona, the dojang is closed. So I wanted to get home, eat and do my own workout but the carbs just don't seem to catch up till almost 2h later? I guess in normal training we do the right amount of intensive bursts and normal cardio that it doesn't drop me quickly, but last time i went walking to a bit of a secluded training area outside (barely 15min) and sugars fell so quickly, from around 7.5 down to 5.5 and since it was dark by then i didn't want to be alone and hope sugars catch up, so had to ho home. It wasn't until again almost 2h after the meal that my levels started to rise.
I really want to be able to work out and i thought normally, 5.5 is the ideal level to be at but I feel i cant do anything as I'm dropping so quickly as soon as I go walking or anything.
Today I'm experimenting with eating a 14g carb chocolate brownie and 17g choco almond milk 2h before cycling and a small carton of chocolate milk about 30mins before i cycle and hope I can get home safely this time.
And that I don't need a long time to top up more carbs to exercise more after.
Any insights would be hugely appreciated, I want to do a lot more but I just can't seem to get the level safe enough and I've started to put on weight too, so more of a workout is really needed - and even if the choco milk works, that's not the healthiest or best way calories-wise to see that I can cycle home.
Thank you.
I'm having some issues with my blood sugar during exercise, in this case cycling. I started cycling to and from work, about 40-45min and I'm not a pro cycler, so fairly slow.
In the morning, I take my lantus, around 5 units atm, and a banana and I'm good to go. I spike to about 8.1/8.2 briefly but by the time I get to work am down to around 5.5/5.6, all good.
During the day I eat low carb and been mainly hovering between 5.5 and 6.6 after lunch and back down.
However, most of the week now I struggle to get home on the bike.
First time I ate a banana a bit late, about 15min before i cycled, so I dropped from around 6.6 to 3.8 by the time I got home.
Next time i ate the banana earlier, about 30mins before -same result, had to stop and take some glucose tablets too as I was around 4.7 and still far from home.
The other thing is, once I get home, I usually eat some carbs and go to training, but due to corona, the dojang is closed. So I wanted to get home, eat and do my own workout but the carbs just don't seem to catch up till almost 2h later? I guess in normal training we do the right amount of intensive bursts and normal cardio that it doesn't drop me quickly, but last time i went walking to a bit of a secluded training area outside (barely 15min) and sugars fell so quickly, from around 7.5 down to 5.5 and since it was dark by then i didn't want to be alone and hope sugars catch up, so had to ho home. It wasn't until again almost 2h after the meal that my levels started to rise.
I really want to be able to work out and i thought normally, 5.5 is the ideal level to be at but I feel i cant do anything as I'm dropping so quickly as soon as I go walking or anything.
Today I'm experimenting with eating a 14g carb chocolate brownie and 17g choco almond milk 2h before cycling and a small carton of chocolate milk about 30mins before i cycle and hope I can get home safely this time.
And that I don't need a long time to top up more carbs to exercise more after.
Any insights would be hugely appreciated, I want to do a lot more but I just can't seem to get the level safe enough and I've started to put on weight too, so more of a workout is really needed - and even if the choco milk works, that's not the healthiest or best way calories-wise to see that I can cycle home.
Thank you.