Since the weekly summary above lists calories through today I just want to briefly update my exercise for the past two days.
Yesterday I did about 50 minutes of cardio--kickboxing. Probably not quite steady state but not really intervals either. Felt good although I could feel it in my ankle afterwards. Kind of weird the pain is like tendonitis which I've had a zillion times in other tendons but as near as I can tell this is coming from the achilles and started after I fell last week. I also did recovery as outlined in OPT.
Today I did A1 from OPT.
Today was also a refeed day but I have no idea if I did it right or not. Leigh's tips in the podcast were helpful. Thanks Leigh!!! I tried to eat extra carbs but keep things somewhat balanced and did spread things out over the day instead of piling them all into 6 hours. It looks like today was about 50% carbs, 30% fat, and 20% protein. My sugars were pretty decent though at least during the day despite all the extra food. That's a relief I usually don't eat anywhere near 280 grams of carb in a day I'm used to around 130 to 150 on average and rarely go over 200 grams. My sugar did spike to 264 but that was in the middle of the night before the refeed. I'm not sure why that happened although it may have been an adrenaline high from the exercise the evening before although I usually don't do that after cardio. Exercise and blood sugars can be kind of tricky. Sometimes I need to keep insulin the same or even take extra like for weight training because of adrenalin and such things. Other types of activity like endurance or cardio usually require less insulin. And of course there's enough times things don't go in the direction you expect. It's another of those areas where all you can do is test, test, test and react accordingly. This is one area where having the sensor is really helpful. It gives me sugar readings every 5 minutes so I can see trends. Right now it says my sugar is 166 and is going up at a rate of 20 to 40 points a minute. If that continues I'll know I need to take some extra insulin to cover tonight's workout.
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