Injury crisis, worried! :(

@Agada , we can all tell you what'd happen to us, but you're not me, or anyone else for that matter.

Personally, I'd urge you to keep your diet nice and tight, and keep testing. That'll be giving you the best chance of coming out the other side as near to the same state as now, as your body can manage.

If you can find a way to do light exercise, whether water based, or just upper body, it might help, a bit, but for nearly all of us, what we eat and drink are the main factors in maintaining. I can understand how "doing something" might help the metal side of things.

Fingers crossed you're not on the sidelines too long.

Hi Agada, Since you appear to have simultaneously increased exercise and changed 'Way Of Eating' at the same time, you probably don't realise how little exercise matters compared to cutting Carbs for a Type 2.

Since I was never really overweight (2lbs max) and get no pleasure from exercise, my only lifestyle change was in going LCHF with no extra exercise and no cutting calories - just cutting carbs. Despite this my HbA1C has reduced and so has my weight (from 170lbs to 147lbs).
Stress, injury, infection , lack of sleep , certain medications can all increase BG, so don't stress about missing some exercise for a while!

Agada said:

Thanks all, I initially did the exercise to lose weight, in order to try and lower my hba1c. 2 and a half stone later and my hba1c is now in the normal range, so it seems lifestyle change and weight loss was the key, I cannot lose anymore weight as I’m at a good weight now as it is, I went on holiday last August and managed to not put any weight on, this was the only period I didn’t do any gym based exercise since remission, my next hba1c did stay the same but I appreciate this was only 1 week away from exercise. I currently exercise in part to maintain my weight but also to try and gain more muscle now that I don’t need to lose fat and to also help control my OCD better, so this set back is annoying on the muscle development part but from what you all seem to be saying, if I can be good with diet and not see much weight gain if any then I should be OK I will try to do some light stuff but unfortunately I can’t swim from one side of the bath to the other so that’s out the window

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Abada, I'd tend to agree with others on the Aquaerobics or chair based exercised for keeping something going. Alternatively, if you go to a general session at the pool, as opposed to a lane swim session, I'm quite sure just walking in water, or such would work well. Your weight is supported, yet you have the resistance of the water against you.

Alternatively, what a great time to learn to swim, or have improver lessons, if you can manage a bit?

A friend of mine is an instructor for Move it or Lose it, aka, FABS (although there are several such styles around). The exercises used are not all chair based, but can all be done from a chair, to accommodate those with poor balance or the like.

All of the exercises can be scaled up or down, depending on the individual's fitness and strength levels.

She does a lot of work in care homes, where it is clearly very low resistance, but also with groups in sessions, where the resistance bands and other tools require a good deal more effort.

A coup,e of years ago she led a session at our local DUK group, so I took part. She worked me hard - probably to knock my "this'll be easy" approach for six.

For me, exercise is the icicng on the diabetes management cake (LC, obvs), but I d totally get the improved mental outlook when getting some exercise done on a regular basis.