Testing My Blood Sugar: How Exercise Affects Blood Sugar
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- In today's video, I'll be testing out the effects of exercise on my blood sugar. I'll be comparing the impact of high intensity interval training (HIIT) versus brisk walking on my blood sugar after eating the exact same meal.
A little history about my blood sugar journey... I was told I was insulin resistant in 2017 after a glucose tolerance test my reproductive endocrinologist ordered for me when I was having trouble getting pregnant. And after conceiving, I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes very early on. Since then, I've been diligently learning about blood sugar dysregulation and gathering data through constant finger pricks and CGM experiments since I am now at greater risk for developing Type 2 Diabetes in the future. I've learned A LOT about what works and doesn't work for my body, and how my body responds to different foods. I hope this video helps you on your path to a healthier lifestyle!
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03:53: Walking
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Thanks for the posts. I am able to drop my glucose levels 30 - 40 points while doing an 1 hour Zone 2 stationary bike ride. Weight lifting does not seem to affect my levels. FYI: I have found peanuts in the shell are a great snack and no bump in glucose levels. Happy New Year!
You do a good job composing your videos, practical, logical, relevant and informative
It would be interesting to test the breakfast with no post meal exercise.
Ooh great suggestion!
Good science 🧪. That would be the baseline for comparison
Thanks for your informative video. When you this experiment next I'd like to see a third day's results when you don't exercise at all.
Thanks for watching and for the suggestion!
great experiment, everyone's body is different, I normally exercise every other day one hour at gym, I recently started adding 40 minutes indoor biking the other day that I didn't go to gym and I was shocked, with my type 1 diabetes, I stopped injecting insulin and it's been 3 times my BG dropped below 4 mmol unit , frightening, for me, intense exercise raise my BG but after 3, 4 hours drops significantly, light exercise drops my BG steady
Do one with high protein meals, same grams but one from a carnivore diet, another vegetarian
Walk might work better to reduce and bring spike down earlier while HIIT might work better for good long term effect such as longevity
It depends on the length of your walk and your glycogen (glucose) stores (in both liver and muscle tissue). For example in a one hour walk it is possible to deplete all glycogen stores and end up hypoglycemic in the hour post walk. When my wife was diagnosed with insulin resistance she always kept candy in the car for the drive home from the walking trail because she became woozy from hypoglycemia.
Hiit spiked your cortisol levels higher compared to brisk walking. Steady state jogging or walking works way better bec you spike cortisol less. There is a youtuber who did an experiment on steady state cardio. Just don't go anaerobic & you will experience lower blood sugar.
I don’t know….walking in my city raises my stress….😁
I am enjoying your blood sugar videos. Thank you so much for your work and pricking your poor fingers over and over for science.
Thank you for watching!
Nice explanation and quiet educative. Thanks
Sometimes my walking feels like a HIIT workout-having to pause for traffic lights. So I guess that’s actually a good thing. I always thought I should keep moving
Nice to see but I wish you would have done one more of the eating without exercise to show how that would have compared.
Thank you I really like these 2 blood sugar videos.
Thanks so much for watching! I have more blood sugar videos in the works so stay tuned! 🙂
Great stuff. More viewers need to find you and benefit.
Thank you!
HIIT any day idk y but i feel so. If u have to walk u have to do a loooonnnggg and active walk to match hiit or even looooonnngerrrr passive walk to match the HIIT. Plus walking is not really gonna enhance ur fitness, but only physiology may be. But HIIT Fitness and Physiology both.
I love HIIT workouts!
You know that heat can affect your blood sugar right? A hot day can make your body sweat profusely and dehydrated, releasing the glucose to your body and spike the blood sugar levels. I'm surprised that didn't spike your blood sugar higher.
Walk should be done very early in the morning before the sunrise and when the heat calm down during the day.
I do low impact aerobic 5 day of the week and 3 days of the week resistance and strength. My diet is very low carbs, but for time to time I have some treats like a pancake, i don't eat pancakes regularly, I ate once a month.
My last result of HbA1c came back very good at 4.5 .
Exercise no matter what kind of activity you do as long you keep your body moving, helps your body regulate your glucose.
Yes, I know that heat can impact blood sugar. Sometimes I notice this after a hot shower. 4.5 is an amazing a1c!
It would be even better when you add a third measure with same eating but without Sport, quasi as reference.
Excellent job.
Combine HIIT and walking
Yes
I have read in many articles in the net that caffein in coffee inhibits insuline effectivity , therefore raises blood glucose , kindly experiment on this thanks
I really enjoy your videos. I think the biggest difference is sustainable exercise. I think walking is way more effective because of how easy it is and also logically the duration of exercise matters. HIIT is also good bc you can do it shorter and still effective. But, it is much more challenging to do it every day after meals. Walking on the other hand, you can do it without a sweat. You can walk longer too. The time for blood sugar to go down from my experience benefits more when the exercise is longer. I was advised by trainer that if I want to really effectively lower blood sugar then asked me to walk at least 20 mins and then do squats or calf exercises for 5 mins. This kinda combines both benefits and easy to do. I think HIIT is more for cardiovascular benefits than blood sugar benefits if we talk about which one is more effective :)
I'd love to see you try maybe after eating a fast food like KFC whole bucket and then compare both exercise to see which one could be more beneficial!
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, walking is more sustainable for sure and easy to incorporate into one's daily routine. When I had gestational diabetes, I found weight training to be the most effective in bringing my blood sugar down. I don't think I could stomach an entire bucket from KFC!
@@thegoodenoughmama what's gestational diabetes and how do you get dianogsed.?
@@seoulkimchi50 Everyone gets tested for gestational diabetes when pregnant. It means diabetes during pregnancy.
If you want to do HIIT training, you need to get progressively into it by increasing the intensity, lowering the recuperation time and increasing the number of repetitions. When done right, it's going to what it's supposed to do.. Drain you out in a short amount of time.
Thanks Madam
It’s a decent experiment, but I’d think one time each isn’t enough. I’d do one workout for a week, then the other for a week. Or do both alternating for two weeks.
One sample for each shows you something, but it’s probably not enough to conclude anything.
Can walking really be as effective at lowering blood sugar as the intense sweaty breath-stealing HIIT workout? Let's find out!
2-hours would be interesting
Hell yes!!
May be another day you could try cycling exercise to find out it's effect on your blood sugar
Thanks for the input! Buying a bike has been on my to-do list, even though I just learned how to ride and am very shaky on one :)
Thanks for the posts! Keep posting!
You save me from all the work of checking my BS
Hello, I'm from Brazil, I have insulin resistance and I'm struggling to control it. I exercise, I diet and from time to time I feel dizzy, nauseous and nervous. My insulin is 18 but my glycated hemoglobin is 5.3. Have you ever felt this? these symptoms? A hug from Brazil.
Your breakfast didn't have that much carb though. What if you did this same experiment but ate significant amount of carbs instead? For example, what if you added a cupcake or muffin to your breakfast?
U should have taken heavy carb meal let sugar touch 150 .and check both type of excercise
Yes, the problem was that I didn't eat that many carbs to see the full effect. I honestly thought the pancake puffs would be enough but the avocado and eggs blunted the effect too much.
@@thegoodenoughmama do this exp again.but let ur sugar touch 150 atleast
Even if u do hiit whole day or walking whole day body will not drop sugar below 80
Please have a test with stevia sugar free. Does stevia raise pp blood sugar? Thank you from a type two diabetic from India.
Thanks for the suggestion! I tend to stay away from sweeteners like stevia or monkfruit because I don't like the taste, but I've tested my blood sugar after eating monkfruit and if I can remember correctly, it has been okay.
I see this video was made a year ago but hoping you still read the comments. Are you diabetic or do you just test glucose to keep from being diabetic? I am not diabetic yet but get concerned as I get older. I have been usually doing the timed eating thing where I don't eat breakfast but eat my first meal about 1pm. I usually walk in the morning on an empty stomach. I was wondering if you have ever fasted in the morning and exercised and then ate later on. Did walking or high intensity help keep your blood sugar stable even when eating later on in the day? Thank you.
Hi, thanks for watching! I am not diabetic, but I am insulin resistant and glucose intolerant, per my reproductive endocrinologist dr, and I've had an a1c in the prediabetic range. Check out my video where I tested the effects of exercise before eating or after eating. That will help answer some of your questions!
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Curious what would happen if you lifed weights.
Great suggestion! When I had gestational diabetes, I noticed that nothing brought my blood sugar down faster than when I did weight training. I'll have to test this again!
What would happen if you hadn't exercised at all? That would be really interesting.
Yes, that would have been a good baseline to use for comparison! I'll have to do that next time.
For a lowering of blood sugar should I have a brisk morning walk before breakfast or after breakfast?
This is a great question! I will have to do a blood sugar experiment on this. I always try to exercise after my meal because there is a bunch of glucose floating in my blood stream from the food that I want to burn up as quickly as possible so that my pancreas doesn’t have to deal with so much.
@@thegoodenoughmama My blood sugar does go down slightly when I have a 20 to 30 minutes walk after lunch and dinner. However having a walk after breakfast does raise my blood sugar at times.
@@kiranpandya5831 That's very interesting that your blood sugar rises with a walk after breakfast but not after lunch or dinner. I read that we are more insulin resistant in the morning. I wonder if that's a factor.
@@kiranpandya5831 Me too I also experience that
I walk and ride my bike for 5 miles...
Wow! That's great
@@thegoodenoughmama ,keep up the good work, it is shedding light on what we should be eating..
Walking is waaay better
You call that HIIT???😂
Interesting - I fast walk almost everyday for 30 minutes & sometimes for 60 minutes. I think as long as you're moving your body, it's all good for you
Great u are better than Dr
I don't have the knowledge of a doctor! Just making videos of how my body responds to different foods/situations. Thanks for watching!