snacks while golfing???

[baltbob]

Any golfers out there who have any suggestions on what to take and snack on during a round. My home course has tuna and chicken salad sandwhiches that I can grab on the turn but they are on regular rolls.Plus sometimes we play early and it not the best thing to eat in the morning. What about snacks to keep in the cart when it gets hot like it will soon????

[Schlep]

Small packages of almonds, cut up some veggies. May an apple or a banana.

Lunch is very tough today I just had an egg salad sandwich on brown more bread than I usually eat in a month.

[xMenace]

I usually take about four snickers bars and a few powerades. It will be interesting to golf with my pump. Hopefully no more feeding the disease. Maybe later this summer.

[Huckleberry]

I usually decrease my basal 30%, bolus less for meals and take along peanut butter crackers and V-8 juice, and check my BGL's once or twice a round.

[Schlep]

Baltbob I guess it depends on if you are type one or type 2 - on insulin or not.

[xMenace]

Baltbob I guess it depends on if you are type one or type 2 - on insulin or not.


I think what type of treatment you are on is a little more clear. Anything that would make you hypo is a convern. Simple metformin shouldn't cause any concerns.

For insulin, if you go by the old rule of one bread exchange (15g carbs) for every half hour of exercise, a 4 hour round needs 120g of carb snacks. I've been out 6 hours some days on public links - on hole digging days - and I was out 11 hours once in a big Texas scramble of 72 teams of 4 right in the remnants of a hurricane. I didn't even take home a frickin door prize in that one.

[slipperyelm]

He is not a type 1 on insulin. He is a newly diagnosed Type 2 on 1000 mg metformin 2 times per day.

I recommend you take with you a protein kind of snack such as Schlep mentions, but also a back-up carby or mixed carb & protein snack. The latter would be for if you feel "low" and need to raise the BG just a little bit. Sometimes when you are still in the process of getting your average BGs down, you can feel too low at levels that are not technically considered hypoglycemia. I believe you still need to treat that with some carbs, you just have to be careful not to over-treat /over eat carbs in response.

Previously, you have said you are in great shape and active. Have you had any problems upon exercising thus far? I don't play golf, so I don't really know how challenging it would be for my own system, much less for anyone else's. I'm guessing a good thing to do would be to have something high protein to eat just before you start play....But really I don't know what you need. Did you used to eat the equivalent of a meal while playing, or was it eating for fun, or eating for fuel to keep going?

If you eat meat, jerky is a portable high protein snack. Cheese cubes could be put in the same small cooler you might carry a drink in. Sunflower seeds would be pleasant, I'd think. Any kind of nut....

[BillB]

I'm a recently diagnosed Type 2 on Metformin (500mg twice a day) and I walk 18 holes 4 or 5 times a week. I have my usual breakfast before going out (oatmeal, 2 tbsp raisins) and I usually have a banana after the 9th hole. Yesterday was a looong round and I wound up having lunch as well. I brought my own high fiber wrap sandwich. That seems to be a better choice than golf course sandwiches, though I suppose if you're walking, it balances out the carbs in the bread pretty well. My BG is usually 90-100 when I get home. The important thing is to stay hydrated, especially as temperatures rise.

I've done the jerky thing from time to time. Tastes great washed down with a bourbon.

[baltbob]

Thanks, you bring up a point I have been experiencing. When I get down to what most people call normal I feel terrible. Like right now I at 103 but feel like I am crashing and really irritable. Am I typical or is this a result of being high for so long????? Not sure what is going on. I am scheduled to see my doctor on tues.....

[Petruchio]

If you are newly diagnosed, and have been high for a time, you will feel hypo at normal levels.

As you adjust to normal levels, you will feel lots better.

[slipperyelm]

baltbob, I would say you are typical on that. :)

[Hammer]

Thanks, you bring up a point I have been experiencing. When I get down to what most people call normal I feel terrible. Like right now I at 103 but feel like I am crashing and really irritable. Am I typical or is this a result of being high for so long????? Not sure what is going on. I am scheduled to see my doctor on tues.....

Yes, that is normal. What you can do is if you feel "terrible", try drinking some water with some sugar stirred into it and see how you feel. If you stop feeling "terrible", then that's because you're body is trying to adjust to the lowered sugar levels. That's what happened to me when I first had a large drop in my BG numbers, and now that my numbers have been low for a while, I feel okay.

I started out with BG levels between 375 and 500. My doctor wanted me to start taking two 500 MG metformin pills at the same time. When I did that, I know my numbers dropped significantly (I didn't have any test strips, so I couldn't test to see what they were) and I felt really bad. I had nothing sweet in the house so I made a sugar and water mixture and drank it and I soon felt better.

Remember, it took a long time for your BG numbers to slowly reach the level that they are now. That slow increase allowed your body time to adjust to the high glucose levels. You're now trying to quickly lower those numbers to what's a considered a normal level, so your body needs time to readjust. While it's readjusting, you're going to feel a bit "strange".;)