Whew! As usual, Plyometrics kicked my ass. I HATE IT, but I LOVE IT. My heart gets pounding, my blood sugar drops, and I sweat like a 2$ call girl in a seedy motel. (Well, ahem, not that I know what that is like.)
I actually got a little worried half way through the workout, I had to press pause and call up my Diabetic nurse. I worked out first in the afternoon after doing my inventory at work. I took less insulin than normal for lunch, and ate a bowl of pasta. I even had a workout shake before exercising. I went low twice, and had to correct. Even when correcting, I was burning through the sugar almost as fast as I was taking it
I had paused too long, so I cut the workout after 40 minutes. After 1 hour, I was at a normal blood sugar of 5 mmol.
I had a burger for dinner, with those ugly onion rings. (I know, I know! I was so hungry I could eat a horse!) I took 4 units less than I normally would. After dinner, the wife and I took a walk with my son and dog. At the ice cream shack, I tested my blood sugar again, and found myself sitting at a normal range again. Damn! I should have been flying higher than that.
Back home, after my son was put to bed, I made another workout shake more like the book. Again, during the warmup, I was fine, but into the workout, I was again going to lower amounts. I finished off the last 20 minutes of the workout, sweating like crazy. I tell you, the pool was so refreshing after that workout.
The diabetes nurse told me that I need to cut my insulin even further back on those days that I am doing cardio, and I definately need to supplement with carbohydrates. I tend to agree. While the whole “carbohydrates are bad” line of thinking is bad for normal people, or perhaps type 1 diabetics, for people who are insulin dependant, you need to up the carbs a little bit in order to make your way through the workout. Otherwise, you will just go low.
One thing a person can do is cut the amount of insulin they take. It really depends on the amount though, and how resistant you are to insulin. The more you exercise, the lower your resistance to insulin becomes. That is actually a good thing, because your body listens to what the harmone is telling it to do. The trouble is, if you get into a pattern of going hypo, then correcting it, you run the risk of roller coastering your blood glucose averages.
Trust me, hypos suck. I think the solution is to go with the Fat Shredder for the weight lifting, and the Endurance Maximizer for the cardio workouts.
If that doesn’t work, I will have to consult with my Endo on what to do next. I am not going to give up my exercising, it is too much fun, adn I get a great feeling out of it. If I need to go back on medication and cut my insulin to next to nothing, that’s okay by me too. Perhaps I can reverse some of the damage I have already done, and truly manage this by diet and exercise. That would be a dream come true.
Till then, CRUSH IT and BRING IT!
