Don't you just hate it when the goalposts move!

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All last week I discovered that my established rules for coping with exercise were failing. Until then I had always experienced significant falls in my blood glucose after cycling to work, so had reduced my pre breakfast bolus and reserved some of my lunch to eat without a bolus just before the ride home. That seemed to work, then last week it all changed and I was getting big rises on the bike ride. Aha! I thought, perhaps I am now so much fitter that the exercise now has less impact. So yesterday I set off on a ride after my normal bolus. At halfway things were fine, 4.5 mmols/l, a small drop, we had taken a Tortuga rum cake to share in the park (a real treat which I feel I can only enjoy after significant exercise, about 27g carbs) so I had a reduced bolus (50%) as we were then planning a short flat ride to a restaurant. Last time I think I ate it without a bolus but then immediately rode 9 miles home, starting with a hill. Before dinner sugars were up to 10.8 so I used my normal post exercise ratio for the meal with a tiny correction. Big mistake. About two thirds of the way home I felt low, stopped to check: 2.7, and then ended up walking most of the way home as it took half an hour to come back up to safe riding levels.
I'm guessing that it is something to do with the pace and duration of the ride. It was 17 miles in total and a very leisurely pace, whereas for work it's 4 miles, 22 minutes each way. I am now wondering what to do when I go back to work on Thursday. It certainly keeps the brain active, this condition!
 
Frustrating definitely, but better than a boring life of doing and eating exactly the same thing, day in, day out. It could also include factors such as weather, especially temperature, but wind also plays a significant role in energy expenditure in cycling, walking and running; and stress / relaxation.
I'm spending morning on chores, just hung out washing, really should do some hoovering, but will probably do some gardening because that's more fun! I'm driving to visit friends this afternoon / evening. They've got a new lurcher, so I think some energetic dog walking may be involved, as well as all the usual fun with 2 parents, 2 girls and 2 gerbils. Plus picking their brains about travel in sub Saharan Africa, as the mother did VSO in Zimbabwe and they met at a campsite, where the father was backpacking.
 
As soon as i think ive got ratios sorted my body decides to move the goal posts. In fact i think my goal posts are on motorised skateboards😱
 
Arrrgh! So today as I have started my second and last Libre sensor, I decide to experiment by doing a basal test while doing a bike ride. However recently I have found that my dawn phenomenon can raise my bg by large amounts when I get up, so as I am not at work that can be any time. So when I got up I saw that my levels were creeping up so I took a 1 unit correction then thought I would wait until that's out of my system, then do the basal bike test thingy.
Now I was at 8.6 when I took the correction (good old Dawn Phenomenon had already started her work) and my normal correction factor is about 4, so I reckoned the one unit should just about even things out at a good starting figure for my bike ride.
Did it? Did it 'eck! Now, three and a half hours later, at 3.4 so I will have to eat. Darn!
 
LOL - I don't think our goalposts stay the same for very long at all! Summer holidays in particular are a pain in the posterior as there is no routine. Last night Libre showed almost perfect flat line along the blue area all night - this almost never happens to us so I was well pleased with myself, only for her to shoot up to 13 during the morning! Oh well, as the weather is nice we shall go out for a walk shortly, lack of activity might have been part of the problem this morning...
And that doesn't explain why her basal needed to be 20% lower all night last night to keep her at normal levels, than it was the night before to achieve the same effect. ?? Don't we all love diabetes o_O
 
Like you Radders I though I had things sorted for a regular class. Until last week!! Instead of starting and finishing on target I found I rose after the class without and glucose input!! Probably the timing of the TBR and the apple on route (which had been working for ages). so now on a quest to sort it all out again. It certainly keeps our minds active. Does that mean we can keep Dementia at bay for longer?
 
If there's one certainty about the Big D, it's that nothing stays the same for long, I can count on it FOOBARing me at any time, with no warning. I'm sure there's a corollary to Murphy's Law that covers it.
 
With all my basal testing plans thwarted, I realised at about 7pm that all I've had all day apart from tea is 10 ml apple juice and a Nature Valley bar!
 
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