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Usually, the need for a quick fix is coming from the clinical patient who doesn’t want to do the moving or who feels helpless and desperate and frustrated because of (insert weird food belief here). A scapegoat is much sexier than going for a walk everyday Love your work, keep it up girl!
I do wonder if you have any information regarding “reactive” hypoglycemia and exercise. I began having issues with my blood sugar getting low about 18 months ago and have had numerous tests to check for everything from insulin producing tumors to diabetes and nothing so far except a vague daignosis of “reactive” hypoglycemia. I do not wake up with fasting low blood sugar but it will drop 2-3 hours after I eat so I eat every 2-3 hours and I eat carbs with protein and fat. I eat 1,800 calories a day which is maintenance for me. I’d like to lose some weight but I’m focusing on my blood sugar issues at this point. I used to exercise..love lifting heavy but since last October (when I had what I am guessing was anxiety but thought was low blood sugar at the time) I have not worked out because of fear my blood sugar will drop. It seems everything I read is conflicting some say its good to exercise for low blood sugar others say exercise lowers blood sugar during and up to 24 hours after exercise. All of this has caused me to have anxiety because I am always fearful my blood sugar will drop. I just want to feel normal again. Any direction is greatly appreciated. ]]>
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Both a lack of exercise and too much refined sugar has no doubt increased metabolic problems. If you’re in the “sugar is fine” camp so long as you exercise, why should anyone take you more serious than those you criticize? After all, the exercising can only make up for so much sugar consumption.
I personally just did a personal experiment with nutritional ketosis. Prior I normally consumed avg of 2800 calories per day. 300 grams of carbs per day, maybe 100 grams of sugar. I averaged about 2.7 ketone level over 6 weeks, maintained same activity level and consumed avg of 4300 calories per day. I lost 10 pounds and went from 13% body fat to 9%. My TG went from 142 prior to ketosis to 74 my last week. Before this experiment was a huge proponent of energy in/ energy out, ad I call it. Obviously this a bit more complicated.
Even if we all exercised we could eat all the sugar we want, I think it’s silly to be so dismissive of sugar. I mean, it seems clearly to be part of the problem. My wife’s an endocrinologist and told me that about 40% of the people she sees with metabolic issues are considered to be if healthy weight and have normal body fat%. A lot if thaws people exercise quite a bit as well…she tells stories all the time if avid endurance runners with diabetes to people who think it only plagues the obese.
For many reasons, some people, regardless of exercise, don’t respond well to high carb loads. And when this occurs, sugar can be especially pernicious.
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