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Hi all,
I'm a real newbie having being diagnosed two weeks ago today. Thanks to all the very helpful advice on this forum I am mostly over the feelings of despair and never ending tears. I am still working through the basics and will come back with more questions but my current one relates to exercise.
My normal routine used to consist of half an hour or so on the cross trainer and followed by a walk between 15 and 30 minutes. The cross trainer would be usually before my morning cup of coffee but sometimes after and the walk would be after my coffee. I would then have breakfast later.
I have one on the cross trainer once since starting to test and only did approximately 10 minutes but it seemed to increase my reading. I think this may have been liver dumping or dawn phenomena- which is more likely? Is it a problem? Should I be eating before exercising- not sure I can make that work as I'm at work by about 7 am and usually have breakfast at work.
Liver dumping- is it bad- does it achieve at least having less stored glucose?
So many questions but I don't know what other site to trust about this whole topic. I plan to ask my doctor but as she apparently thinks I should still be eating carbs I'm not sure how good her advice is.
I'm a real newbie having being diagnosed two weeks ago today. Thanks to all the very helpful advice on this forum I am mostly over the feelings of despair and never ending tears. I am still working through the basics and will come back with more questions but my current one relates to exercise.
My normal routine used to consist of half an hour or so on the cross trainer and followed by a walk between 15 and 30 minutes. The cross trainer would be usually before my morning cup of coffee but sometimes after and the walk would be after my coffee. I would then have breakfast later.
I have one on the cross trainer once since starting to test and only did approximately 10 minutes but it seemed to increase my reading. I think this may have been liver dumping or dawn phenomena- which is more likely? Is it a problem? Should I be eating before exercising- not sure I can make that work as I'm at work by about 7 am and usually have breakfast at work.
Liver dumping- is it bad- does it achieve at least having less stored glucose?
So many questions but I don't know what other site to trust about this whole topic. I plan to ask my doctor but as she apparently thinks I should still be eating carbs I'm not sure how good her advice is.