Exercise after eating

[HenryBennett]

Hi all,

Managing heart as well as T2 I’m sucking up as much information as I can from DUK and BHF - Dr Google is way too unreliable (way too many quacks). So, I can’t remember now where I read that you should exercise two hours after eating, but elsewhere one hour. Two hours seems a long time to wait.

What’s the general feeling/experience please? I’m talking a sensible, low carb meal, not a big Sunday roast and a brisk walk, not circuit training.

Thanks,

Henry

 

[Deleted member 27171]

I think you can exercise as soon as you feel comfortable to after eating, especially if nothing too intensive. Ive read posts from others who try and get active to some degree right after they eat. I guess it’s another one of those things that has no solid advice. I imagine any suggestion of waiting 2 hours would stem from bg testing and making sure things are stable after a meal before doing anything, but again would think that is more in relation to something like a run/cycle/swim which could require some treatment adjustment to prevent hypos - but again think most people don’t wait for 2 hours before doing such things unless there is a real need to.

 

[SB2015]

Hi Henry

I try to stay active for at least 15 min after a meal.
We usually go for a walk for about half an hour straight after a meal as it helps to reduce the post meal spike. We have to adapt this for some meals , eg where the glucose is going to be released more slowly, as I have sometimes got caught by a hypo on our walk.

This does have a big impact on my levels and time in range, but I still don’t always stick to it!

 

[Deleted member 25429]

I am doing a million step challenge, I eat then go for a walk straight afterwards, but I have to be careful not to almost half my insulin to carbs ratio when I do this

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I remember the Public Service adverts they used to put on in the summer about not going swimming straight after lunch in case you got into bother in the water, so perhaps that sort of adverse reaction is behind the 2hr caution?

I have certainly used brisk walking soon after a frustrating post-meal BG spike to try to take the edge off the rise, but it’s not a technique I use all that often and tends to get reserved for when my BGs have been playing up and I’m getting increasingly grumpy.