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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1422387" data-attributes="member: 32394">Yes. In a type 1 diabetic it is impossible to control blood sugar through diet alone long term. Your immune system is killing off the beta cells in your pancreas that make insulin, not all of your beta cells are dead yet. You're in the honeymoon, you still have some endogenous insulin production. But nothing is going to stop your immune system killing off all the beta cells. Soon you won't have enough beta cells for insulin production to be sufficient to manage blood sugar on any diet. No matter what we eat our body works har to turn carbs and protein into glucose, this glucose is stored in our liver and trickled ou through the day to keep us with enough energy. If you don't have sufficient endogenous insulin production that just raises blood sugar to dangerously high levels. Your body can't use the glucose for energy withou insul and thinks you must be starving so starts remaking Dow fat and muscle and other tissue for energy. This tissue breakdown releases ketones and turns your blood to acid. These are complications that can rapidly become fatal.A low 70 isn't technically hypo is it? I think you have to be under 70 to be hypo. If your not on insulin your body should self correct a low blood sugar. When you are on insulin you adjust the dose for exercise. The oral medication you are taking forces insulin production and it's probably this causing the low during exercise. I don't have any experience of these meds and I don't think they have flexibility to be adjusted for exercise. Given your high hba1c and weight loss I wouldnt recommend reducing. You may just need a carby snack pre exercise to keep blood sugars up.</blockquote>

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