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Vince01

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Hi, I am t2 ,2 years now, taking sukkarto 500 twice a day, 5ft 7 and 9.3 with clothes, I'm, usually eating 100/130 carbs a day,staying the same weight. I do around two and a half hours of medium/ high exercise pw ( weights and exercise bike).
My bg levels vary quite a lot, 6s before porridge then exercise and in the 9to10.
Mid afternoon 5 to 6.5 after evening meal around 10 that's eating chicken breast above ground veg (lots of it) but I do add gravy granules, about quarter pint. I can't afford to lose weight but with my levels are all over would going keto be the answer.
My last hba1c was 49.
Thanks

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I found porridge was much too many carbs for me. And so was 100g of carbs a day before I got into remission.
Maybe no need to go as low as keto but cut carbs more than currently?
 
Hi TriciaWS,
Thanks for your reply, I did cut out the porridge but I found that I couldn't get past 5mins of exercise before going weak at the knees and feeling quite ill, I've tried a few other low carb breakfasts but still can't manage my exercise. Even lowering the amount of porridge doesn't give me enough energy (I have 50g).
Don't know what to do?.

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what other breakfasts have you tried? You may want to think outside the box and have something that's not a traditional breakfast food- maybe meat for example.

It may also be part of a 'false hypo' that you are experiencing. The body having lower levels than usual and not being happy about it.

Are you able to change the time of your exercise?
 
Vince01 said:
Hi TriciaWS,
Thanks for your reply, I did cut out the porridge but I found that I couldn't get past 5mins of exercise before going weak at the knees and feeling quite ill, I've tried a few other low carb breakfasts but still can't manage my exercise. Even lowering the amount of porridge doesn't give me enough energy (I have 50g).
Don't know what to do?.

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That would likely change if you became ‘fat adapted’ and started burning fat in preference to carbs for fuel.

Now keto would help with that - I suspect you’re a bit ‘twixt and between’ which means your body isn’t dealing with the morning exercise.

I’d be tempted to try significantly upping fats (avoids weight loss too) and pushing protein up consistently for a few weeks and then seeing how you manage the exercise. In that period perhaps you could do the exercise at another time in the day. Otherwise I fear you’ll get trapped in a cycle.

I didn’t start exercising until I ditched the carbs so this is just a theory but @Mbaker might be able to help.
 
50 grams of porridge likely will raise your blood glucose by circa 3-4 mmol/L, if you are not doing any preparation with this and reducing the potential spike; I know this as I have been doing an experiment for around 4-5 months which I will share later today. 50 grams equates to circa 7 teaspoons of long lasting sugar.

It does look like your fats are low based on the snapshot of foods you are doing, which are not too dissimilar to a body builder cutting phase diet. I would look to get some creamy full fat yogurt with a variety of nuts (excluding or limiting cashews) as either a replacement for the porridge or to squeeze the porridge to maybe 15 - 25 grams. If you like cheese maybe half to three quarters of a matchbox size with you chicken and veg.

When I was running out of energy on 5 mile walks after 3 miles I added a fillet of seabass - no science, over time something literally clicked (probably fat adaptation, or insulin resistance improving), and I was able to go for as long as I wanted.
 
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