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OK, I'm sure many of you read my post re: liver dump, exercise and testing and I wanted to post a weird follow-up to that...
FYI, for the past three days I've changed from my regular two 20-25 minutes a day easy/moderate exercise sessions to two MUCH more intense sessions, anywhere from 30-60 minutes each.
I posted in the above-mentioned thread that I had a weird experience of only moving from a 7.3 (131) to a 7.1 (128) in a one-hour span after exercise, which I thought a bit odd, and a very low reduction in BG for me in that time-span. (Just fyi, when I test and get an unexpected number, I wash again and re-test to confirm.)
Well, weirdness continues, and I now don't think I dropped that little (only 0.2 points), I think I dropped considerably more, and then re-dumped to take me back up. The reason I think that is - in the past three days it's happened SEVERAL times!
Today was a perfect example:
0700hrs BG of 5.6. Breakfast, ~500 calories with about 29g total (not net) Carb.
1000hrs BG of 6.9. Shortly after ate a chicken-salad wrap, 290 calories, 14g total Carb.
1130hrs Chest and Tricep workout, (weight training) fairly intense for 30 minutes.
1215hrs Spin Bike, 1/2 hour.
1300hrs Smoothie (fresh Pineapple, Orange, Strawberry, Whey) 300 calories, 45g total Carb
1400hrs BG of 7.6 (no surprise considering the fruit 1hr eariler)
1630hrs BG of 6.4, Cheeseburger in lettuce wrap, ~400 calories, 2g total carb
1830hrs BG of 5.1 (tested twice, both similar, averaged the numbers)
1945hrs BG of 6.4 <--- Liver Dump (tested twice, identical #'s) Dinner was fajitas on lettuce. 400 calories, 11g total carb.
2000hrs Spin Bike, mostly moderate with some intense intervals. 45 minutes. Felt at least one low in there, if not two.
20:50hrs BG of 6.4 (My body really likes to put me around the mid 6's when I get low....)
So in a nutshell, between my 1630hrs low-carb meal and my 1830hrs reading I did a 2-hr post prandial DROP from 6.4 (115) to 5.1 (92). Then I obviously dropped enough from the 5.1 reading to cause another spike back up to 6.4...
Is is NORMAL to drop this fast while exercising more? I noticed a similar trend yesterday - I didn't test as much yesterday but I did drop from 6.8 2hrs post lunch to a 4.9 only an hour later before my afternoon snack...
Fast drops, it seems... I don't hypo, but should I burn glucose that fast? I used to be able to go 4hrs between meals without a liver dump, now I'm dropping faster it seems...
FYI, for the past three days I've changed from my regular two 20-25 minutes a day easy/moderate exercise sessions to two MUCH more intense sessions, anywhere from 30-60 minutes each.
I posted in the above-mentioned thread that I had a weird experience of only moving from a 7.3 (131) to a 7.1 (128) in a one-hour span after exercise, which I thought a bit odd, and a very low reduction in BG for me in that time-span. (Just fyi, when I test and get an unexpected number, I wash again and re-test to confirm.)
Well, weirdness continues, and I now don't think I dropped that little (only 0.2 points), I think I dropped considerably more, and then re-dumped to take me back up. The reason I think that is - in the past three days it's happened SEVERAL times!
Today was a perfect example:
0700hrs BG of 5.6. Breakfast, ~500 calories with about 29g total (not net) Carb.
1000hrs BG of 6.9. Shortly after ate a chicken-salad wrap, 290 calories, 14g total Carb.
1130hrs Chest and Tricep workout, (weight training) fairly intense for 30 minutes.
1215hrs Spin Bike, 1/2 hour.
1300hrs Smoothie (fresh Pineapple, Orange, Strawberry, Whey) 300 calories, 45g total Carb
1400hrs BG of 7.6 (no surprise considering the fruit 1hr eariler)
1630hrs BG of 6.4, Cheeseburger in lettuce wrap, ~400 calories, 2g total carb
1830hrs BG of 5.1 (tested twice, both similar, averaged the numbers)
1945hrs BG of 6.4 <--- Liver Dump (tested twice, identical #'s) Dinner was fajitas on lettuce. 400 calories, 11g total carb.
2000hrs Spin Bike, mostly moderate with some intense intervals. 45 minutes. Felt at least one low in there, if not two.
20:50hrs BG of 6.4 (My body really likes to put me around the mid 6's when I get low....)
So in a nutshell, between my 1630hrs low-carb meal and my 1830hrs reading I did a 2-hr post prandial DROP from 6.4 (115) to 5.1 (92). Then I obviously dropped enough from the 5.1 reading to cause another spike back up to 6.4...
Is is NORMAL to drop this fast while exercising more? I noticed a similar trend yesterday - I didn't test as much yesterday but I did drop from 6.8 2hrs post lunch to a 4.9 only an hour later before my afternoon snack...
Fast drops, it seems... I don't hypo, but should I burn glucose that fast? I used to be able to go 4hrs between meals without a liver dump, now I'm dropping faster it seems...