So let’s get going on T1Alli’s running thread…
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It won’t be impressive. I’m shooting for jogging/walking for 30 minutes twice a week for now. Given all of our schedule constraints (and noise considerations in the house while working and sleeping for opposite schedules), I will be killing it if I can do two 30 minute sessions a week.
My main goal is improving cardiac health. And enjoying some endorphins. I don’t like where my resting heart rate currently is at and I want to improve it. Once I start jogging fast enough to even make it onto your handy little speed chart for @Nickyghaleb, then I’ll probably jog farther as I can, but I’ll just exercise 30 minutes overall with walking.
Honestly, I am wary of doing enough exercise which results in all different basal rates, and night drops if I can’t consume carbs to replenish after exercise correctly, etc. Because being real, I just don’t have time for all of those changes and headaches right now. I also want to work on some stable “week 2” basal rate testing in the next few months and keep tinkering with temp basals on high hormone days. I feel like I’m getting close to a passable methodology.
But…looking ahead at the weekend and knowing there was no option for a 30 minute session Fri-Sun, I went ahead and did it tonight to get my second session in this week. My boys enjoyed having control of the house and Netflix while I was on the treadmill. I played frisbee with them after dinner and wasn’t as concerned about blood sugar as I thought I’d be. Maybe not signing up for so many school night extracurriculars and just exercising together and eating healthy/real food will be our family jam this school year. Over-scheduling seems to be toxic for us as a family and as individuals. None of us like it that way. We’ll see.
But, big picture…I exercised twice this week…I exercised with kids home and didn’t freak out about blood sugar “what ifs”…I exercised during high hormone insulin resistance even while on Day 1 of a Dexcom sensor that wasn’t all the way dialed in yet. I liked what you told @daisymae one time that bravery does not mean not being afraid, bravery is doing it even if you are afraid. Something like that. That was tonight for me.
The reason all this hormone/insulin resistance stuff is such a hot button topic for me is because that is where all of my fear has come from. Going from MDI with birth control to MDI without birth control was a huge change for me and I didn’t even totally know it at the time. None of my doctors ever clued me in on that. Or CDEs. Or consultants. All I knew was my doses were all over the place and I’d get these stuck highs or these tanking lows and it was awful. And then I went on the pump. And basal testing was done all over my hormonal month and I found the email I sent them questioning this methodology back in 2014 and it got met with “here’s the link to our webpage that says how we do this. it’s fine.” But it wasn’t fine. I really don’t think it’s fine for most women, but you know my thoughts on that. And after getting pretty much set up on the pump (thank God I didn’t listen to my endo and I at least used consultants…my endo told me to start at 1.2 units per hour for the first 12 hours of the day and 0.8 units per hour for the second half of the day…I actually average 0.4 units per hour), everything kept being ■■■■. I was getting all these crazy bg results and got stuck in the low bg ditch with kids depending on me and had to have neighbors come sit with me and the kids, or my friends, or my one relative in town. It’s weird to be like, “Hey, uncle guy that I see two times a year, can you come sit with me and the kids tonight because last night I tanked in the evening and couldn’t drink my way out of it for a really long time.” And then your relative is just hanging out keeping an eye on you and your kids but doesn’t really know what he is watching for or that I’m basically on the verge of a panic attack the whole time.
This is what hormones and terrible guidance for women has done to my confidence over the last five years. But it is getting better now. And now I feel brave enough to live instead of survive. @daisymae said I would get there. Maybe I am doing that part now.
I don’t think @Nickyghaleb and I realized that when we joined FUD we were actually signing up for this awesome version of free therapy. And it’s all over the interwebs for everyone to see.
So, yeah, mediocre jogging for short increments twice a week is my Mount Everest, baby!
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I apparently used a filtered cuss word above. Hopefully I won’t get banished. Sorry, y’all!
Hey, there is no shame in walking and jogging for 30 minutes. Whatever your current level is, that’s what you do.
I could make a reasonable argument that doing a consistent exercise program can help with your BG control. I know it seems like your basal is all over the place right now, from one part of the month to the next, but there is a chance that some of those extremes can be flattened out a good bit with exercise.
This probably isn’t what you want to hear, but yes, sporadic exercise can lead to sporadic BG. Consistent exercise though can lead to consistent BG.
But don’t take my word for it. See what DN tells you in October…
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Are you paying for sound proofing my house so I can exercise everyday and not wake other people up? Bc I think that’s what you said.
[we also need to work on your timing of deflating people’s balloons. Go start a thread about that for your personal growth, @Eric] 
Once I get to a more level playing field with hormones, and once my kids have driver’s licenses, I’ll be glad to exercise more regularly. 
I imagine it could dampen some of the extent of the insulin resistance from hormones, but it would also increase insulin sensitivity during the hormone plummets and low hormone times. So the whole scale might slide down, and the total fluctuations might remain. I’m not just dampening spikes w hormones. I’m also shoveling out of ditches. But I won’t know all that for another 10 years…
You are about the singingest dude I have ever met. 
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You are progressing way faster than I did… I was at “death” for about 6 months before even coming around here. So your instant “less death” is remarkable. 
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My oldest has puked in four different rooms in the last 12 hours, poor kid. Apparently a summer stomach bug is going around and is lasting 3-4 days.
I’m hydrating like there’s no tomorrow to get ahead of this in case I catch it…which has decent odds given that I did not see how much puke was in MY bed last night when he came to sleep with me because he’d puked in his bed. Guess I should have turned on more lights and put on my glasses. I was trying to clean him up and let him sleep in my room while I was dismantling his top bunk over top of his sleeping brother…and then managing the disaster in their bathroom. #momming
I really don’t want to break my streak of staying out of the ER for myself for over a year now.
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My youngest has projectile vomited INTO my mouth the last two bugs, and I have managed to avoid getting it. I did not, obviously, learn the lesson in time to keep my mouth shut the second time, but now I’ve got head gear… in case we go again. 
hopefully you won’t get it.
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- I’m very curious what your “Tactical Mom Headgear” looks like.
- You should have seen my freak out when one of mine sneezed in my mouth during one of their last viruses.
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That’s not unlike the pooping helmet my mom got me for Christmas shortly after my T1D diagnosis when I developed a two year long bout of pooping syncope.
I got every health test known to man performed on me. And now it’s just funny. Best newlywed years ever.
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That is HOT. But mine has a shield. Yours, as hot as it is, would not stop protect against projectile vomit.
So a “pooping” helmet… for “pooping” syncope… I’m not sure if I’m reading this right…
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Yeah…I didn’t keep it…but I would pass out most times I did the deed. You haven’t lived until you have three hot EMT’s in your apartment putting you on oxygen so you can go to the bathroom.
It was actually terrifying…but they were hot and took out my trash while I went to the bathroom on oxygen. One of them looked like a modern young Tom Selleck. And then they carried me down my stairs and took me to the ER. It was a full day.
I figure if I lived through it, I get to retell it.
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Awww, baby girl! So I was reading it right then…
Wow.
So the first thing that comes to mind is… it could’ve been worse…you could’ve had three hot EMTs in your apartment with video cameras and no understanding of personal boundaries and a bad sense of humor… in boas. That would’ve been worse.
AND you win the helmet contest… your helmet is better. Can’t compete with that helmet. 
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…and after 5 million lab tests and medicines and probiotics and an upper scope and lower scope…the answer?
Yogurt.
Eat your yogurt, ladies and gentleman. Or else you might have to have protective headgear for bathroom breaks.
My poor husband during our intro to marriage…T1D diagnosis and honeymooning, intro to insulin, and two years of gastro specialists. Good times.
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Jogged a mile without walking. Pleased w that. 
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Awesome stuff!
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My wife had the “pooping” syncope a few times early in our relationship. True fun. We also got the requisite colonoscopy…
Brings back memories.
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