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Colour me confused

gaynor_lo

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hello, I am newly diagnosed and got my bg meter on tuesday, I had been told that fruit and fruit juice will make bg spike quickly, and I tested after 1 hour of a large glass of orange juice and an apple for breakfast, and it was 6.5. then after a salad lunch I worked out in the gym both cardio and strength, which I was told would lower bg for the rest of the day. I had chicken and salad for my tea, tested 2 hours later, and the reading is 8.8. why would a chicken salad make my bg go so high when I spent an hour in the gym a few hours earlier?
 
It may be the gym workout rather than the chicken salad that raised your BG. You need to test one thing at a time, if possible. A vigorous physical workout will raise your BG initially.
 
Spiker said:
It may be the gym workout rather than the chicken salad that raised your BG. You need to test one thing at a time, if possible. A vigorous physical workout will raise your BG initially.
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my work out in the gym was 2 - 3pm, tea was at 6pm and I tested at 8pm, so would the work out still be affecting my BG, and if so would that mean that working out is bad for me
 
Were your hands clean? a residue can cause incorrect readings and what was in your salad. at the end of the day we are all different. I avoid yogurt and cottage cheese as it spikes me seems everyone else on this forum has them no worries
 
gaynor_lo said:
my work out in the gym was 2 - 3pm, tea was at 6pm and I tested at 8pm, so would the work out still be affecting my BG, and if so would that mean that working out is bad for me
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Well, I wouldn't have thought so, TBH. Not after 4-5 hours and not since you are T2. But maybe. The point is you need to test the salad independently from the gym session, otherwise you can't tell which one did it. Some salads have a lot of sugar in the dressing etc.
 
Depends on what type of workout you do. Heavy indurance training, spinning, low impact cardio or combo there if. I use to hit the gym for up to 6 hours a day n I'd spike like crazy after endurance training yet go low on regular baseline cardio that only lasted a hour. At my seasonal work my numbers hit the roof because I'm lugging around 500 pounds of equipment yet when I switch over to day to day photography outside of set up n tear down I'm going low less ir pucks up then I'm all over the place. Keeping track of your work outs glucose levels before n after plus an hour after n two hours after will give you a idea of how that particular type of work out effects you. Thus how to eat before hand to have the best results.
 
Mud Island Dweller said:
Were your hands clean? a residue can cause incorrect readings and what was in your salad. at the end of the day we are all different. I avoid yogurt and cottage cheese as it spikes me seems everyone else on this forum has them no worries
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chicken with basic salad stuff, some mixed nuts, mango, pineapple, dressing made with sugar free natural yoghurt, lemon juice, curry powder, seaasoning.
 

10 mins exercise bike, 10 mins treadmill, 10 mins rowing machine, 30 mins strength training using all muscles.
 
Do you know what you were immediately BEFORE you sat down to eat? To test a meal you need a before and after reading so you can calculate the actual spike.

The mango and pineapple may not have helped.
 
no I have never tested before, limited to 50 test strips a month, so just test one meal a day.
 
OK, but an after reading on its own is telling you very little about that meal. Have you thought of buying your own additional strips? You may have to get another meter with cheaper strips if you want to keep the price down. Most of us type 2's have to buy our own, sadly.
 
l ageee with the pineapple and mango being big hitters in a spike.
And sugar free yogurt? how many carbs in it people get muddled over sugar and carbs.

lf you are only doing after a meal it is a waste of a test strip do it less times a month and properly or buy the sd codefree from amazon l believe £12 meter & £7/50 strips.
 
gaynor_lo said:
10 mins exercise bike, 10 mins treadmill, 10 mins rowing machine, 30 mins strength training using all muscles.
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Unless you've been a gym junkie for 6mths.
Gently exercise, like a walk around the block type strenuous ....if you perspire and puff...you are over doing it for an over 40 newly diagnosed T2

A lot of us are on low carb
http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf
 
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