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Originally Posted by Signmom99  But what is confusing me is that people on this board are talking about vigorous exercising is increasing their BG's. Is that not necessarily true?
I still intend to tone my muscles and build them up a little since losing weight off/on over the last 20 yrs (more off than on, lol) has inevitably eaten some muscle. I just want to make sure that if I should be doing is less intensely that I do that. After all, most of us don't want to work any harder than what is good for us anyway..............heehee! |
It's not necessarily going to push your blood sugars up.
One of my favorite tricks as a type 1 for strength training is eating and injecting insulin prior to working out. With the insulin on board, I'll see my blood sugars drop while strength training.
With that in mind, it's possible that you'll see your blood sugars move down. They might also move up some, but in general the overall process of making your muscles active and turning them into the glucose burning machines they should be will over a period of time help to bring your blood sugars down along with your insulin resistance.
And hey. You never know. You could end up getting bit by the crazy bug and turn into one of those crazy sorts that looks forward to working out. For me over these 14 months or so now, it's been kind of cool to find out how much more my body has been capable of. It takes some time and patience, but almost all of us can do things that we might think are impossible.
