need exercise/monitoring advice

ozbuc · #1 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007, 10:23 AM

( A note to forum monitor, please feel free to move this post if you think it can get a better response elsewhere. ) I have a question to the exercise or monitoring gurus out there. My normal morning routine is to wake up, test, eat breakfast, do 30 mins of strength training, walk for 3.5 miles, and then test again to see what my post breakfast numbers are. When I arrive home from my walk it has been about 2.5 hours since my breakfast. I do the walk in about 1.5 hours with 15 minute breaks in between the breakfast and the exercises. So the question is will the added .5 hour added to the magical 2 hour testing window make a huge difference in my testing result? Should I change my routine? mabye strength training first then breakfast then walk? I am open to all and any suggestions.

Harold · #2 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007, 10:32 AM

A half hour can make a big difference. My suggestion take your meter with you and check at 2 hours.

xMenace · #3 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007, 10:38 AM

I'd try testing every half an hour once in awhile to build a profile. If you are not on insulin, there's no big need to test at the 2 hour mark. You are not making adjustments on the fly.

Ronin · #4 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007, 01:21 PM

Hi Ozbuc!

Some comparitive numbers would be helpful.

Exercise does different things to different people depending on the intesity and duration. (i.e., I'm a very intense tandem bicyclist who rides 90+ minutes per day and my BG levels tend to go up following exercise because I have some anerobic periods in every ride which signals my liver to dump glucose.)

Also, are you currently on any medication? That will factor into the equation as well.

ozbuc · #5 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007, 02:35 PM

In answer to Ronin, as far as medication goes I am doing metformin 1000x2 a day, my A1C at first testing was 11.4 and BG was 250, That was july 11 I hope to get retested soon but my PCP is the Veterans administration so who knows. Since then I test about 4 times a day, at wake up I am generally at the low 90s but I average some where between 95 and 125 through out the day. The point of my question was the timing of my after breakfast BG test and whether to split up my exercise sandwiching breakfast between the two. For example do the 30 minute strength training then breakfast then walk my 3.5 miles that way I would arrive home in time to do the testing within the 2 hour window. I probably wont take the meter and test strip with me on the walk, kind of awkward and all.