Putting on weight by working out!!

You could try reducing insuling with your evening meal ? This should negate need for a snack prior to workout ? It's trial and error, however, even putting a couple of pound on, the benefits of regular exercise are huge. Hope you can find a solution.
Mo


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Had the exact same problem on mdi. Kept plummeting from excercise. I didn't have the problem of weight though as trying to gain. Seems like your insulin levels are too high when exercising. Either basal, or bolus if injecting and eating within 4 hours of going to gym. Tricky one for you as if.like me you cut back on insulin end up too high prior to working out.
easiest way, try to get a pump. That way you can put basal on stop approx 30~60 mins prior and on again after. Thats what works for me.
Or sip on lucozade whilst working out, pure glucose will keep your levels up rather than eating. 10 does seem a bit high at any time of day for any activity, and having the lucozade, your body won't need to digest the food beforehand.
Or mid way through workout go absolutely flat out for a short periods of time. Seen that on runsweet.com. This promotes a response from the liver to dump some glucose. I know some type 1s do this after their workout to stop going low afterwards.

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Good advice from both Mo and Brett. When you exercise you increase the insulin sensitivity and if you have too much on board, it shunts the blood glucose into the muscles more rapidly than you can replace it from other sources. A functioning pancreas would cut back it's insulin production and increase the counter regualtory hormones to compensate. If you've just bolused after eating you don't have that opportunity so you are burning sugars not fats, and won't be losing weight.

So you have two options really, either exercise before eating, or modify your bolus dose. The ADA in Handbook of exercise in diabetes give a guide of up to 50%, Think Like a Pancreas gives a table with a few ranges based on duration and effort, with a starting point for 40-60 minutes of moderate intensity giving a 0.67 multiplier i.e. reduce by 1/3.

You will need to experiment yourself to find what works for you. I've now found for example, that if I go for a long run after breakfast, if I reduce basal by 50% and bolus to 1 unit that morning, I can run happily with about 45g carbs per hour and I'll be testing about every 45 minutes just to keep an eye on things.

For shorter stuff, I tend to do that pre-meal, and have a 10-15g snack beforehand if I'm lower than 5.5, adn maybe reduce my post meal bolus as well.

Basically, if you want to avoid post-exercise hypos and the need to eat extra carbs you WILL need to reduce your mealtime bolus if you exercise after meal. You'll need to determine how much by trial and error, but it should stop you needing to go so high after dinner to manage the exercise.

Thanks for the update let us know how you go with jogging

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