Diabetes and exercise.

Terry

First off, I'm not looking for medical advice. Just a few tips.

I've recently started a training regime in order to lose weight.
It's just walking at the moment.

I have a personal trainer (thank **** for cousins with skills ), and he has done out a regime for me.
The thing is I went on my first walk on Monday.
I had a reading of 8.1 before leaving the house. When I got home 45 minutes later, it was 3.2 .

When I went today, I took a 500ml bottle of coke with me.
It was half full when I left the house, and I only took two sips from it.
Left the house with a reading of 7.0 and was at 5.3 when I got back.

Citrus fruits have always given me indigestion, and I didn't want to walk around a public park with a banana in my pocket. An apple would require me stopping, and that would just cause me to quit and go home.

Does anyone have any tips (non-medical of course) on how to avoid low blood sugar levels while exercising?

I'd rather not have to rely on coke.
Note: I do not like Lucozade. Chocolate is also out, as are energy drinks.

CramCycle

Lower your insulin levels before hand, your doc should give you some decent tailored advice or one of the specialist nurses over the phone.

BC

I find that having some fruit like an apple or a small piece of brown bread before leaving the house stops this kind of thing.

Coke & Lucozade are sugar drinks. They will increase your blood sugars quickly and temporarily. You need something slow releasing that will last over the 45 mins.

Also agree with Cramcycle, talk to your doc about changing the insulin regime for the time before you exercise.

Alanstrainor

Yeah i would eat something like a banana before going out cycling. A bottle of lucozade/coke, is good to quickly give your sugars a bump, but it's short acting.