Comments on: Wayback Wednesday: Where’s the Physical Activity??

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:06:16 +0000

I agree, it's hard to know exactly what you're doing - ie, speed walking is different than walking at a leisurely pace. I found what worked best for me is to disconnect my insulin pump (under an hour) then test my blood sugar immediately after exercise.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:05:08 +0000

Actually, I’ve seen lots of logbooks, data management software etc with a place to enter exercise. The problem is, how to quantify it? I’ve got carb/insulin ratio to deal with carb intake, correction factor to deal with insulin needed to lower a high BG, but beyond jotting down “three hours gardening” there’s not much I can to quantitatively with exercise. I can’t throw it on my food scale, I can’t measure it with my meter, I can’t say “I just took 20 grams of exercise.” It’s just a total gray area, and I don’t know how you would quantify it???

By: Diane J Standiford

Diane J Standiford — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:52:35 +0000

This is so true. True with every health condition. True for the healthiest among us. My mother’s diabetes was never better than when she took up walking every day.