Lawn mowing exercise! How to cope on MDI please

[pippaandben]

It looks as if the first cut can be done sometime over this weekend. Should I not inject bolus for the meal beforehand - or do what I did last year on insulin mix when I had a mouthful of apple juice with each grass box full. This will be the hardest exercise since injecting as although an electric mower still have to push it - and of course the grass is tufty. Any advise please?

 

[LeeLee]

Pay a local teenager to do it and sit on the sofa scoffing chocolate while watching.

Sorry, that was MY strategy... I'm sure someone will be along with something useful if you actually WANT to do it!

 

[Northerner]

It looks as if the first cut can be done sometime over this weekend. Should I not inject bolus for the meal beforehand - or do what I did last year on insulin mix when I had a mouthful of apple juice with each grass box full. This will be the hardest exercise since injecting as although an electric mower still have to push it - and of course the grass is tufty. Any advise please?

I did my first cut yesterday, and it WAS hard work! Gardening generally seems to send me low, but like most exercise it will affect different people differently. You might want to consider reducing your bolus beforehand and keep some jelly babies handy and see how it goes - perhaps test every 15 minutes to see how things are.

 

[pippaandben]

Pay a local teenager to do it and sit on the sofa scoffing chocolate while watching.

Sorry, that was MY strategy... I'm sure someone will be along with something useful if you actually WANT to do it!

Who said anything about "wanting" to do it? Living in a cul de sac of pensioners does not help!!