Comments on: You Dissin’ Exercise?

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By: Sysy Morales

Sysy Morales — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:42:29 +0000

Like Kirby I wonder the same thing. I have always been able to lose weight easily with exercise. However, I don’t walk…I run and do intense yoga and in conjunction with proper eating the weight always comes off. I just give less insulin and try to exercise at the same time every day and for about the same amount of time. If someone is fit rather than fat, they don’t feel hungry after working out. So I suppose getting fit first is important so the feelings of hunger subside.

By: Diabetes and Exercise

Diabetes and Exercise — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:02:01 +0000

There is a health benefit for exercise (such as decreasing insulin resistance) that occurs even if there is no weight loss.

By: Kirby

Kirby — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:04:22 +0000

I wonder who wrote this. My exercise has helped me lose 38 lbs in 3 months. Ride a bike, qit reading the drivel put forth by modern media!

By: xim1970

xim1970 — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:14:29 +0000

I personally don’t have a problem with my weight (5’8″, 150 lbs), but I have had problems when I do anything strenuous (I like to hike/geocache). I have to disagree with Gary Scheiner, CDE. I’ve often run into high blood sugar because I assumed that I would burn off a good portion of my carb intake while hiking. Turns out that I can have higher blood sugars (I believe) because there wasn’t enough insulin to allow my body to use the sugar that was available to me. Remember, insulin is what ALLOWS your body to USE that sugar to fuel your muscles during exercise. Hard lesson learned a few years ago: wound up with severe hyperglycemia…yet I wasn’t eating, or taking insulin. Liver delivered stored sugar to my body, but because I wasn’t taking insulin (because, I figured I wasn’t eating, I didn’t need it), I still wound up with 1500 blood glucose. To take less insulin is insane, because, although you might avoid an extreme low, you can also risk an extreme high, because you will have nowhere for your sugar to be used…that’s why we have insulin. It should be a balance. I’ve learned to be prepared for a low during a hike. But at least my body can use the sugar I’ve ingested, because I took a reasonable amount of insulin. Another diabetic balancing act!

By: Edwin

Edwin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:18:00 +0000

I think that the exercise may prevent the fat cells from accumulating and by prompting the body to burn calories from fat before burning calories from carbohydrates and it reducing feelings of hunger.

By: How to Exercise Throughout Your Day

How to Exercise Throughout Your Day — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:54:47 +0000

Let’s also keep in mind thin doesn’t equal fit. To get fit you need to exercise

Rick
Sensei J. Richard Kikrham B.Sc.

By: T1 in Boston

T1 in Boston — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:56:15 +0000

Like Anne, I don’t go low if I exercise in the morning before eating (and bolusing) — something about mornings (not just dawn phenom) and it works. If planning to exercise after afternoon or evenings meals, I often take a minimal bolus but leave the basal alone.

I agree that it’s all about fitness/wellness – not about the scale/pounds. My endo always says to keep exercising, even though the days when I don’t exercise at all (end up sitting at my desk all day, like a rainy day) are often the most stable Bg days – very little Bg fluctuation. But who wants to live in a body that hasn’t moved all day? Not me. I try to keep moving. I also think it’s good for my heart and overall metabolism.

ps it’s “rebuttal” – sorry, Amy.

Great post.

By: Dr. Dina Ralt

Dr. Dina Ralt — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:27:15 +0000

exercise benefits are not simple the calories that we spend but more important – the energy efficiency balance that they exert.
That’s why we need to do it daily or we lose the better efficiency balance. Think of our body as the car gear box …exercise requires a shift…and the body will keep on with this shift for about 24hr.
If you care to read more :
http://nettingno.blogspot.com/2008/03/two-urges-to-eat.html

By: Chris Stocker

Chris Stocker — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:49:58 +0000

And this is yet another reason why I have cancelled my subscription to this magazine. To even have this on the front cover of such a high level publication is ludicrous. Isn’t one of the main reasons today that there are so many more type 2′s being diagnosed is because they are not exercising? This just drives me insane how this makes front cover. Thank you Amy for calling this article out. Like the post states, even if you don’t lose weight according to your scale, you will at least be somewhat healthier and feel better about yourself. What a bad decision on the part of TIME to release such nonsense.