For all you athletes with diabetes (or wannabe athletes!) - a place to exchange workout tips and encouragement.
Thank you all who responded. I can not tell you how much it helps hearing about others peoples solutions to certain things!
Yesterday was the first day I had the courage to not eat before sport - usually have 2 exchanges and does work well but just kept checking and all was fine -post exercise had less elevations also - interesting. It was sporatic exercise stop and start as opposed to continuous cardio like a run or walk - netball
Funny, I too ate an abbreviated breakfast today. About to go out for a 3 mile run. Usually I eat about 90g carbs for breakfast (16oz OJ and 3 waffles or 2 packets of Oatmeal) but today I skipped the OJ and only had 2 waffles. 30g carbs.
I was the same as Wiseguy - woke up today with little time to eat prior to a ~20 mile bike ride. No food, started the ride at 110bg, just had water (watched via Dex levels) and finished 127. Crazy - I know I have a “dawn effect” or something where my bg naturally rises, but that was amazing.
I’m usually OK on a short-ish ride (under 15-20 miles, mostly errands), but on the longer rides I’m finding myself creeping up into the 120’s to 140’s – scary territory for me (a T2 on diet-and-exercise) – while at the same time I’m apparently burning through calories (especially in this hot weather).
after a 35 minute light jog (in 88 degrees) my sugar is…82. Didn’t check before hand though. And the CGM is just starting. The minimed one takes 2 hours to get trending info before it starts showing sugars.
I run for 1 hour and I have been dropping from 11.6 (208.8) down to either 6.2 (111.6) or 5.3 (95.4). I find that is alot for me, is that o.k? Usually feel like passing out after that. I eat before I go and when I get back.
Resistance training is anaerobic exercise. Different energy sources and hormones come into play during it. When you run aerobically, you burn fat and sugar at a sustainable rate. When you workout anaerobically, your liver and muscles dump their stored glycogen with the aid of a hormone called cortisol which also has the effect of makeing you more insulin resistant… at least that’s what I think I remember from The Diabetic Athlete’s Handbook… good resource for understanding exercise physiology in diabetics.
Good answer mscott. Johnny, try asking your question on the DESA Website. The Diabetes Exercise and Sports Association has experts in all areas of sports and athletics who will answer your questions. www.diabetes-exercise.org
Don’t buy anything from them though. Been a month, and no response on my order.
@miketosh, come to think of it, I bought a shirt from them over a month ago (and they definitely were more than willing to charge it to my CC), and I’ve received nothing at this point as well :-/
I would suggest that you contact Doug Dressman, who is the Executive Director of DESA. His email is dougdressman@diabetes-exercise.org. He will find out what’s going on and get back to you.
I emailed them a couple days ago at the address that is advertised and got no response. Thanks for the direct contact, I’ll try that now.
I emailed Doug. He got back with me very quickly. Seems to have been a delay w/ the tech shirts (which is what I ordered) from their distributor. I should hopefully have mine by the end of next week (well outside the “2-3 wks” processing time, but not horrible I suppose).
I think it’s mostly ironic that an organization related to ppl who exercise (I mean, it’s in their name right?!) are confused or shocked by the fact that “we just can’t seem to keep those tech Ts in stock…” which is almost undoubtedly what anyone who exercises would want wear–especially over a cotton one. At least in my opinion. Hopefully they will re-evaluate their inventory procedures at some point in the near future 
I got the same response from Doug. I was just concerned that there was no human on the receiving end of my order. Now that I know it was a stocking delay, I’m more comfortable with waiting.
I hope it is a nicer tech shirt. I’ve gotten a couple from various events that feel like they were made with wool. I really like the rebook ones that BJ’s Wholesale stocks. Nice and soft.
Just for clarification, (since I made a pretty harsh and critical comment earlier,) don’t let my issue with DESA stop anyone from buying stuff there. I’ve been told they will give better heads up for possible delays.
And if anyone does have problems with orders from them, at least Florian has provided a good, working contact email to use to get things resolved.
Just wanted to clear that up.
I have a question, because i’m not a particularly intense athletic (or haven’t been for months, I used to jog 1.7 miles five times a week and weightlift right before) Does jogging bring your blood sugar down? Or does it bring it up? And for any weightlifters out there, i’d like to know what effect that has on your blood sugar. When I test before weightlifting, then after my blood sugar tends to rise which but i’d like to know others’ output. Thanks in advance.
Jogging for more than 20 minutes brings my sugar down. Any activity more than 20 minutes brings my sugar down. Not sure if weightlifting would though. I don’t have time for that.
brandon…do you feel your low sugars? because if you are having highs, (this happens to me), and you dont feel your lows, …what was going on during my runs, bikes or swims…i wuold have low sugars(40 and below) and then my liver would kick in and see that my sugar level was really low, and then it would dump an enormous amount of sugar to protect me from going low, and then i would get finished with the event and my sugars would be 250…so i thought i needed more insulin…and then this would happen again…i finally had dr corcoran of diabetestrainingcamp teach me what my body was doing…hope that helps