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Type 2 Heavy manual work

wiseowl_123

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Location
North Kent
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
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Good afternoon at the moment I am digging in the garden and wonder why as every time I do some heavy digging or manual labour my BG level always goes down to the 4's have just finished digging and using the wheel barrow moving a lot of soil and took a reading which is 4.6 and after 10 minutes it goes back to the 5's ,how does it affect my BG level
 
I am the same. Love it.

It is a combination of things, reduced insulin resistance from the exercise, and burning off the glucose - and it is why previous generations used to eat so many carbs and not suffer from them so much. (Victorian manual labourers are estimated to have eaten 4-5,000 calories a day)

The benefits also last for hours afterwards.
 
Good afternoon @Brunneria and many thanks for your friendly comments they are as always very much appreciated
 
Now my BG levels go up with manual labour. I know they are not supposed to, but they do.
 
Hi folks ..
I would love to get involved with some heavy digging and manual work around a property .. unfortunately, I don't have a garden. I live in a (small) block of flats with little opportunity for DIY, apart from decorating every couple of years. At my recent "Well-Man" session on 24 January (from which I was diagnosed T2) Nursie asked me all the standard questions .. how many hours per week: gardening, decorating or DIY .. my answers: none, none, none. Which is probably why my med records show that I am "inactive". It seems that my three rounds of golf per week (gentl(ish) exercise plus a brisk walk of approx 3.5 miles each round) plus my walking to town and back (about 2 miles) every day don't count for much.
I really wish I had somewhere to wield a spade and fork in anger .. but I can't even get on the waiting list for an allotment
 

Have a look online at your local area, help is always needed with river banks, parks/gardens and turning disused area's into beautiful place's for the local communities.
 
Robinredbreast said:
Have a look online at your local area, help is always needed with river banks, parks/gardens and turning disused area's into beautiful place's for the local communities.
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Hi @Robinredbreast
Thanks .. that's a good idea. I will make enquiries and I agree, it would be good for me and the local community. But do you think it will get me off the "inactive" list at my Doc's ?
 
I guess availability varies with allotments. Where we are, there are vacant plots. I did a lot of digging yesterday and my BG came down a long way, after a big peak. Today I did less (only an hour) and the peak is there but the drop much less.
 
AM1874 said:
Hi @Robinredbreast
Thanks .. that's a good idea. I will make enquiries and I agree, it would be good for me and the local community. But do you think it will get me off the "inactive" list at my Doc's ?
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You seem to be doing exercise though, so who is to call some one 'inactive', when many gp's are often sitting behind their desk. I don;t go to a gym, I have been before, many years ago and hated it. Outside is what I like best, but being busy at home and I am also lucky enough to have a garden. I know my local area have 'walks' each week, they meet at a designated area and the organisers wear the bright green jackets.
Or what about joining a local dog's home and helping out with walking the dogs and cleaning the kennels out, also charity shops are always looking for volunteers, all are great for the mind and the body.
Good luck
 
AM1874 said:
Hi @Robinredbreast
Thanks .. that's a good idea. I will make enquiries and I agree, it would be good for me and the local community. But do you think it will get me off the "inactive" list at my Doc's ?
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I agree with RRB, community activity could be useful all round; don't know about your gp though, guess you'll have to talk nicely to get them to amend their notes.

Another option could be to check around your neighbourhood, or maybe put a notice in the local newagents (like they did years ago), to see if there is an older person or someone with limited abilities, who needs help with their garden and cannot afford the cost of a gardener. My brother has this arrangement with someone local whose gardens he maintains, and in return he has use of half, or a bit more, of the back garden which he uses to grow all manner of goodies for himself & family. There's usually much more than they can eat, so the neighbour (and a few others) benefits from the produce too, as an extra bonus. Sadly they're too far away for me to participate.
 
Thanks all for some excellent ideas and suggestions .. my spade is now poised and I'll let you know how I get on
BTW .. the point about my med records is just that "they" have this fixed idea about what constitutes being active .. nothing else seems to count .. which means that anybody viewing my records (eg: if I should move to a new surgery) will inevitably form a false impression of me as lazy, old couch-potato who has brought this T2 upon himself and is doing nothing about it. And that makes me mad
 
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I know what you mean. I used to work in an office on the 6th floor. Goodness, how I hated those stairs. But I made myself walk them about 5 times a day. That is 30 flights in a day. Plus the walk to work and back, plus the dog walking.

But no, office job = sat on backside every day.
 
At my diabetic review I am always asked a list of questions about my life style e.g. how much I walk in a week ,how much gardening ,how much housework ? This one is easy (as little as possible )
CAROL
 
Hi @Brunneria ..
Well, never mind .. we can both be inactive together ..
 
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