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<blockquote data-quote="invincible" data-source="post: 173910" data-attributes="member: 31630"><p>Okay Megaman, so you let your sugars run high before you begin exercise.</p><p></p><p>But is the body not supposed to release sugars when the need be (increased muscular activity)? And if the sugars are not sufficient by themselves, does it not then switch to using stored fat?</p><p></p><p>Apparently, since you let your sugars run high before exercise, your body does not have to release any more during exercise? And your body won't reach the stage of having to use up fat anyway which comes after the release-of-sugars stage. Which means you are not burning any fat off as you exercise.</p><p></p><p>I am saying all this because I think I am suffering from poor blood-glucose management during my exercise and want to understand the concepts better.</p><p></p><p>In any case - whether you stack up on sugars before exercising or your body releases them into the bloodstream in response to triggers received from muscular activity - the muscles won't be able to use that sugar significantly due to diabetes, would they (that's the case for Type-2 diabetes, don't know about your type of diabetes though)? - so what's the point in stacking up on sugars before starting exercise?</p><p></p><p>My blood sugars are higher immediately after exercise than they are before it and I am trying to figure out what to do and why. Are my blood sugar levels high because the muscles could not make use of sugar released by body in response to increased muscular activity or are they as a rebound due to low blood sugar sometime during exercise? If former, no point in stacking up on sugars just before exercise (muscles won't be able to make use of it), if latter, why do the sugar levels in diabetics drop so suddenly so drastically while exercising when they won't in a normal person (presumably)?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="invincible, post: 173910, member: 31630"] Okay Megaman, so you let your sugars run high before you begin exercise. But is the body not supposed to release sugars when the need be (increased muscular activity)? And if the sugars are not sufficient by themselves, does it not then switch to using stored fat? Apparently, since you let your sugars run high before exercise, your body does not have to release any more during exercise? And your body won't reach the stage of having to use up fat anyway which comes after the release-of-sugars stage. Which means you are not burning any fat off as you exercise. I am saying all this because I think I am suffering from poor blood-glucose management during my exercise and want to understand the concepts better. In any case - whether you stack up on sugars before exercising or your body releases them into the bloodstream in response to triggers received from muscular activity - the muscles won't be able to use that sugar significantly due to diabetes, would they (that's the case for Type-2 diabetes, don't know about your type of diabetes though)? - so what's the point in stacking up on sugars before starting exercise? My blood sugars are higher immediately after exercise than they are before it and I am trying to figure out what to do and why. Are my blood sugar levels high because the muscles could not make use of sugar released by body in response to increased muscular activity or are they as a rebound due to low blood sugar sometime during exercise? If former, no point in stacking up on sugars just before exercise (muscles won't be able to make use of it), if latter, why do the sugar levels in diabetics drop so suddenly so drastically while exercising when they won't in a normal person (presumably)? [/QUOTE]
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