wow.
now that i realize i can easily check for new forum replies in my gmail (which is not a mail account that i check often), i should catch my replies and respond to them in a more polite interval.
there was really a lot in your reply, and it effectively caused me to have a paradigm shift in how i'm looking at my fasting blood glucose levels. (Of course, it almost goes without saying that FBG correlates to BG the rest of the day; the only reason i always talk in terms of FBG is because that's the easiest one for me to conscientiously record every day before my routine kicks in)
Anyway, took note of your mention of hypoglycaemia being tied to adverse cardiovascular events. When you speak of low BG , what BG range are you referring to? Even with my metformin, the lowest FBG i ever had was 90. Typically, its 110 to 120, and on the day of the weak that training is heavy (monday i do squats and running), my FBG the next morning is usually 130 to 140 (Note: day-after-squats this FBG is fairly consistant irrespective of how i eat the rest of the day after squats, EXCEPT that if i eat MORE on squat-run day, my FBG is LESS the next day, i.e., negatively correlated with amount of food and positively correlated with amount of exercise)
What i am hoping is that you might be able to give me links or references to some of your sources so that i can go and read them. So much to learn, so little time is so cruelly true in the case of our disease!!
And regarding the motivation of my training (besides that its fun)--- two motivations. one is that i somewhat need to train competively because i've been a competitive weight lifter and was in the top of my sport since 1995. If i am not striving to improve, i loose my motivation. i can't go into the gym and plod away for an hour of more "because it's good for my diesease and longevity". For good or ill, whether it speak well of me or poorly, proceeding with that frame of mind makes me feel broken and depressed and i don't do well. Even if i am broken, i can't think of it that way.
But there is a second more important reason i train so hard, and that's a social reason. while i excell at weight lifting *for* *my* *age* *and* *gender* *and* *stature*, i am nearly a 57 year old , five foot tall female. I've never been a natural athlete by anyone's standard. But the people i recreate are...most are 30 -somethings, uber athletes, centuarians (cyclist that compete in 100 mile events). They people ski to relax and just recreate, but to ski with them, i have to work really hard to stay on the top of my game. For safety, they don't want me along if i need a babysitter (like i did on the last trip).
I would gladly ski with people that are more my level. I would gladly hike with people that aremore my level. BUT THERE AREN'T ANY!! As you said in your reply, most diabetics don't even exercise or don't exercise enough to do themselves any good. That is what i have found to be tru also. The ones i am friends with at the gym have the same atttitude that i eschew, which i would paraphrase like this: "I'm a broken old diabetic so i'll plunk away on the treadmill reading a magizine and not really pushing myself or putting myself out because what's the use anyway."
I find that kind of energy really discouraging to be around, and i find being alone and having no playmates really discouraging to be around.
On the bright side, in the two years since i have been training hard, my weekly milleage has continued to improve, my speed has continued to improve, my amount of weight pushed has continued to improve, and also my resting pulse and other factors i track as markers of my training status....all this despite my many set backs and complaints. It's being in the context of these many tiny tastes of successes that is keeping me going.
thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and knowledges with me. I sometimes feel very very misunderstood. Well, ---not just sometimes---most of the time. iTs always been a lonely road but i stay on it because whenever i've strayed off it i didn't like the results and also because i keep meet encouragers like you whose ideas and it seems like every time i've gotten to that point when i'm so discouraged i feel like just giving up, i encounter someone that gives me a word or two of encouragement or morsel of knowledge that helps me press on.
A million years ago when we were all young and some of us listened to hippy music, i recall a Bob Dylan song in which he said "he who is not busy being born is busy dying" I'm not ready yet to "go gentle into that good night" thanks.
