stuffedolive
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I've usually mixed a bit of fasted exercise into my week, but usually just once or maybe twice a week, often as part of a 24 hour fast.
Lockdown changed all this.
As we were initially allowed out for exercise once per day avoiding others, I started going for fasted jogs at 8am, every day. So since late March some form of fasted exercise, from an hour's run to 10 miles (3 hours) walking, has been a regular feature -with only had 4 or 5 days off. I have a delayed breakfast when I get back then eat lunch etc as normal.
I have always been very irregular with taking BS readings. I have tended to do a lot for a couple of weeks then hardly any for a month or two. The pattern has always been the same, high (often 7-8) morning BS then bouncing around the 6's all day long on a LCHF diet but with mainly evening exercise. Carbs push it up but I have largely avoided very high (over 10) readings.
A few weeks into this latest fasted exercise regime I randomly tested an got my lowest ever reading (4.6). I have since tested on numerous occasions and seem to be getting much lower numbers than before lockdown - and I am probably eating more carbs (my wife has been making home baked bread!). My weight has stayed the same.
I appreciate that this amount of fasted exercise is not recommended by sports nutritionists, who say that it will negatively impact performance and lower immunity. However the impact on my BS levels seems, on the face of it, to be entirely positive.
Can anyone cast any light onto why this may have happened?
Lockdown changed all this.
As we were initially allowed out for exercise once per day avoiding others, I started going for fasted jogs at 8am, every day. So since late March some form of fasted exercise, from an hour's run to 10 miles (3 hours) walking, has been a regular feature -with only had 4 or 5 days off. I have a delayed breakfast when I get back then eat lunch etc as normal.
I have always been very irregular with taking BS readings. I have tended to do a lot for a couple of weeks then hardly any for a month or two. The pattern has always been the same, high (often 7-8) morning BS then bouncing around the 6's all day long on a LCHF diet but with mainly evening exercise. Carbs push it up but I have largely avoided very high (over 10) readings.
A few weeks into this latest fasted exercise regime I randomly tested an got my lowest ever reading (4.6). I have since tested on numerous occasions and seem to be getting much lower numbers than before lockdown - and I am probably eating more carbs (my wife has been making home baked bread!). My weight has stayed the same.
I appreciate that this amount of fasted exercise is not recommended by sports nutritionists, who say that it will negatively impact performance and lower immunity. However the impact on my BS levels seems, on the face of it, to be entirely positive.
Can anyone cast any light onto why this may have happened?
