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<blockquote data-quote="Sapien" data-source="post: 2083949" data-attributes="member: 507939"><p>I am not trying to lose any weight. I am trying to improve glucose regulation (lower fasting glucose and keep post-prandial from spiking). I am trying to figure out what I can eat to keep BG below 120 (6.6) at all times and move my fasting down so it stays consistently below 90 (5). </p><p></p><p>Weight training seems to have little direct immediate effect on my blood sugar. Hopefully it helps lower fasting blood sugar over time. </p><p></p><p>Aerobic exercise seems to have an immediate effect on my blood sugar, but like I say I find it odd that eating carbs before seems to make the aerobic exercise dramatically lower my blood sugar, but doing exercise on an empty stomach can increase my blood sugar. </p><p></p><p>(Interestingly I feel just fine with my BG at about 60 (3.3). I checked with two different meters to confirm.)</p><p></p><p>Does that mean that carbs put my body in glucose burning mode? And blood sugar keeps dropping even after the carbs I ate have been utilized, but exercising on an empty stomach I am more in fat burning mode and my body doesn’t use sugar that my liver releases (from the stress of exercising?) since muscles are burning fat? So the blood sugar rises some even though I haven’t eaten recently. </p><p></p><p>I would have thought that exercising on an empty stomach my muscles would use up glucose stored in the muscles then from the liver and only after the glucose stores are used up start burning fat. If the glucose stores are used first wouldn’t my blood sugar be at least as low exercising fasted as non-fasted?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sapien, post: 2083949, member: 507939"] I am not trying to lose any weight. I am trying to improve glucose regulation (lower fasting glucose and keep post-prandial from spiking). I am trying to figure out what I can eat to keep BG below 120 (6.6) at all times and move my fasting down so it stays consistently below 90 (5). Weight training seems to have little direct immediate effect on my blood sugar. Hopefully it helps lower fasting blood sugar over time. Aerobic exercise seems to have an immediate effect on my blood sugar, but like I say I find it odd that eating carbs before seems to make the aerobic exercise dramatically lower my blood sugar, but doing exercise on an empty stomach can increase my blood sugar. (Interestingly I feel just fine with my BG at about 60 (3.3). I checked with two different meters to confirm.) Does that mean that carbs put my body in glucose burning mode? And blood sugar keeps dropping even after the carbs I ate have been utilized, but exercising on an empty stomach I am more in fat burning mode and my body doesn’t use sugar that my liver releases (from the stress of exercising?) since muscles are burning fat? So the blood sugar rises some even though I haven’t eaten recently. I would have thought that exercising on an empty stomach my muscles would use up glucose stored in the muscles then from the liver and only after the glucose stores are used up start burning fat. If the glucose stores are used first wouldn’t my blood sugar be at least as low exercising fasted as non-fasted? [/QUOTE]
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