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<blockquote data-quote="daniel1021" data-source="post: 331456" data-attributes="member: 52749"><p>Definitely avoid sports drinks! stick to the water! Isotonic sports drinks such as Lucozade Sport etc are mainly targeted at the long distance runner type athletes and that's why you will struggle to get your sugars down from it. If you are eating soonish before hand but doing the correct insulin dose for your food you eat, it absorbs quicker through exercise which is why you are probably experiencing hypos whilst in the gym. So like we said, if you reduce the amount of insulin you inject before working out, your blood sugars will be higher than usual and also not as much insulin will be absorbed so you come down to a normal range without hitting the hypo stage. If this doesn't work after a few attempts of reducing your insulin ratio to food, it may be that you literally are working yourself so hard that you would bring down your blood sugars through exercise without any insulin before hand... it is a bit of trial and error to see what works for you unfortunately but if you become stuck don't be afraid to ask I will always try and help as I know how difficult it can be!</p><p>P.S sorry for the essay lol also hopefully other exercise professionals could shed some light on this issue for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="daniel1021, post: 331456, member: 52749"] Definitely avoid sports drinks! stick to the water! Isotonic sports drinks such as Lucozade Sport etc are mainly targeted at the long distance runner type athletes and that's why you will struggle to get your sugars down from it. If you are eating soonish before hand but doing the correct insulin dose for your food you eat, it absorbs quicker through exercise which is why you are probably experiencing hypos whilst in the gym. So like we said, if you reduce the amount of insulin you inject before working out, your blood sugars will be higher than usual and also not as much insulin will be absorbed so you come down to a normal range without hitting the hypo stage. If this doesn't work after a few attempts of reducing your insulin ratio to food, it may be that you literally are working yourself so hard that you would bring down your blood sugars through exercise without any insulin before hand... it is a bit of trial and error to see what works for you unfortunately but if you become stuck don't be afraid to ask I will always try and help as I know how difficult it can be! P.S sorry for the essay lol also hopefully other exercise professionals could shed some light on this issue for you. [/QUOTE]
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