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<blockquote data-quote="NicoleC1971" data-source="post: 1697653" data-attributes="member: 365308"><p>I feel a little down after reading most of this thread because it seems that for the most part exercise has been parked in the too difficult/complicated with type 1 category. </p><p> I exercise and will aknowledge here that with type 1 it is tricky and I am unsure of the benefits when I consider the short term highs (weight training) and lows I have had when doing long runs or just cycling to work. It is a head you know what.</p><p>Why exercise then? My thought process is that diabetes is increasing my CV risk therefore I must counteract that risk by not being sedentary. And yes there is some bloody mindedness about using type 1 as any kind of an excuse too. But I do have to start out at a 10 to avoid hypos and do have to either increase basal or do a correction dose if lifting weights so I worry that overall I am not winning the war against microvascular/ macrovascular damage. All I know is that I feel better when I have done it and that when I did need head space, running gave me that in spite of the incessant need for precautions. If you believe you have to be perfect all the time in blood sugar terms then exercise is definitely not for you btw. Personally I accept the messiness of it all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NicoleC1971, post: 1697653, member: 365308"] I feel a little down after reading most of this thread because it seems that for the most part exercise has been parked in the too difficult/complicated with type 1 category. I exercise and will aknowledge here that with type 1 it is tricky and I am unsure of the benefits when I consider the short term highs (weight training) and lows I have had when doing long runs or just cycling to work. It is a head you know what. Why exercise then? My thought process is that diabetes is increasing my CV risk therefore I must counteract that risk by not being sedentary. And yes there is some bloody mindedness about using type 1 as any kind of an excuse too. But I do have to start out at a 10 to avoid hypos and do have to either increase basal or do a correction dose if lifting weights so I worry that overall I am not winning the war against microvascular/ macrovascular damage. All I know is that I feel better when I have done it and that when I did need head space, running gave me that in spite of the incessant need for precautions. If you believe you have to be perfect all the time in blood sugar terms then exercise is definitely not for you btw. Personally I accept the messiness of it all. [/QUOTE]
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