When I have oatmeal in the am, it forces me to exercise, or else I’ll be sky high. Do you eat things to force yourself to exercise?
Example:
Fasting BG -- 90 mg/dL. I have oatmeal, 1 hour after eating (with no exercise) -- 160 mg/dL, 2+ hours -- 115 mg/dL crash...
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Fasting BG -- 101 mg/dL. I have oatmeal, wait 30 min, go exercise intensely (speedwalking, etc) -- 103 mg/dL at the 1 hour mark, and below 100 mg/dL at the 2 hour mark.
I do low carb.... but I do these kinds of things to push me to exercise, though now the habit has stayed with me, and I exercise every morning anyway, regardless of what I eat. lol But if I feel like eating something other than eggs, that's the price of admission.
Experiences?
I should add that:
Yes, I know this spikes... I do it on purpose, like I said before... to exercise it off. I always add almonds to any oats, and yes, any oats of any kind spike me this way, regardless of their 'glycemic index,' and no, I do not take any insulin or meds. My diet is okay... I know what I'm getting myself into... Just asking if anyone else does the same, on purpose. lol
What type of oatmeal is it? Is it boxed, like maple sugar or apple cinnamon? If so, you may want to make youre own oatmeal with rolled oats and then add the butter, cinnamon, etc…its still high on the glycemic chart, but not as high. Premade oatmeal is a high glycemic food and thats why its shooting you up and then u crash.
If you have to exercise to help bring your sugar down after eating and insulin, then you need an adjustment or simply it is a high glycemic food, which raises your sugar, than u crash. Oatmeal is 55-70 (depending on the kind) on the index chart…and glucose is 100. So if you compare the 2, it looks pretty bad, even though oatmeal has great health benefits.
You may want to add some protein to your breakfast to ensure your sugar will not drop so fast.
I don’t do any meds, or insulin. ALL oats, oatmeal, of any kind does this to me. lol I’m not concerned about the spike, as I can control it… But I was asking if anyone else does this on purpose, too.
I will also add that I do know about the glycemic index, but don’t rely on it. I rely more on portion control, and glycemic load standards per NutrionData, or Mendosa’s site. That is more reliable than glycemic index. I knew that the oatmeal (regardless of the kind) was going to spike… but I do it on purpose.
i don’t eat to push myself to workout, but i do occasionally indulge before a stressful exercise. Fridays in particular I’ll have a sandwich, with actually 2 pieces of bread, and fries before my swim. i don’t do it every night because i don’t want to the calories, but i know i can do it and keep my BG below 100. every couple weeks i’ll sneak some sugar free frozen yogurt into the pool on the weekend. on the weekends i might swim a mile or more so i know i need the calories and on a hot sunny day, what beats chocolate soft server with strawberries?
In a way, it’s also out of need… because if I don’t have enough glucose in me to burn when I go work out, I’ll come home wanting to raid the fridge… even though I just ate, you know? And my husband exaggerates a lot when he cooks, so I know I’m having enough protein and fat. lol
I don’t eat to force myself to exercise, but I do eat according to a regular exercise schedule. So, during the week, I exercise when I get home from work. That’s usually 4 hours after lunch and a couple of hours before dinner. If all goes according to my plan, I’ll be somewhere between 90-120 at that time. I’ll usually have some kind of a carb snack to cover my workout at that point, depending on what my BG is. If I’m at the higher end, or over my 90-120 target, I’ll just head straight to the gym. I’ll always take a carb snack with me though, just in case I need it, and I will test during my workout.
Oh, I should also add that I don’t do this to overeat… ever. I sometimes do it at a meal time, or a snack time… Something like that… Cus I know I will burn it off as fuel during my workout… and not be starved right after…
I have a high carb meal to excercise. I love to cycle so i have to eat something to keep me from tanking i would love to skip the food but I wont make it back on low carbon
No, I have never done that to force exercise but I have had one pack of instant plain oatmeal with about a quarter cup of milk and splenda spike me 190 points!
I don’t even like milk but I do like a little on oatmeal. Needless to say, no oatmeal for me anymore! I was just diagnosed when this happened and my husband who is diabetic told me oatmeal was good for you and part of the “diabetic diet”. My premeal bgl was 236 and a half hour later it was 426. I will never forget those numbers. About 15 minutes after I ate I started shaking and sweating and felt very light headed. Shortly after, like 2 hours later, I found some diabetes forums and read about low carbing and immediately went to a a low carb/high fat diet. It has worked wonders and today I have not had a reading over 106. The most I “spiked” was 13 points and hour after eating and down to premeal or lower than premeal readings at 2hPP I should mention I had no carbs with my breakfast and about 10 carbs at lunch. I would say that shows that carbs really do affect your bgl.
Yeah… I hear ya there. My first day, diagnosed as a diabetic, that morning I had a BG of 235 mg.dL. I had no clue that I was supposed to test throughout the day, or what… And I went and had a big subway sandwich, thinking it was healthy… Then when I got home, I blacked out. lol I will never know how high it got. I just know I slept like 14 hours, and the next day morning I was 225 or something. It was bad.
Right now, I do about 60-100 g of carb a day. Those are my magical numbers to prevent a few things which are also important to me: a.) Never going over 140 mg/dL (which I rarely go over 120, as it is) b.) Not feeling deprived and binging, and c.) Preventing high morning blood sugars. Yes, lower carbs than that, and my morning blood sugars get really high because my liver starts dumping glucose. I dunno what it is about it… the other reason, reason d.) I can’t afford going lower carb than that, right now… As I have no job, no insurance, and only food stamps… is also a pressing one.
I hardly will do any carbs in the morning, if I’m not gonna exercise. Not more than 10 (or 14 if it’s a wasa cracker. Those things are amazing at not spiking). At dinner or lunch, my max is 35-40. If I push it anymore than that, I spike. I try to make snacks that are below 20, for the most part… but I hardly have any carbs at snacks. Usually 7 grams, or less. So, that’s my deal, really… I consume less carbs, but not as less as those who Atkins or Bernstein, and I negotiate with myself a lot… because it’s not easy to deal with an eating disorder such as deprivation/binge cycle…
I’ve lost about 72 pounds so far, and I do pretty good. My A1C is at 5.5%. Not a Berstein number, but I’d like to think it’s decent.
I usually go a little higher in carbs also, not as low as I have the last couple of days, but I had gotten to a platteau with weight and thought a couple days of really low may bring me over the platteau. It worked already. Down a lb. this morning. You make a good point, You need a sustainable diet and I know I couldn’t go this low in carbs on a long term basis. At 50-60 grams a day, I felt that was sustainable to me. Yesterday I had less than 20 grams and today so far, only 10. I feel that is really too low but every once in awhile, I need to do that to get my numbers back in line and to jump start my weight loss again. To me, I don’t mind eating that little carb but it is hard to find or think of things to eat that I am not “sick of”.
