All Day Seminar

I spent the day at an Olympic Weightlifting seminar hosted at the CrossFit gym(www.crossfitgp.com) I coach at. The seminar was with Diane Fu. If you are interested in Olympic Weightlifting, I couldn't recommend a better person to take a seminar from. She was very thoughtful and approachable. Overall, it was a great day and I learned a whole bunch that will improve my coaching and my own ability. 

Going into an all day event like this as a T1D can be a bit nerve racking. For me, I feel like I have to test all day long and be paranoid about highs and lows. I knew I would spend most of the day being active.

I used a temporary basal rate most of the morning and a normal rate for the afternoon. The reason I did this is due to the fact that the snatch was worked on in the morning portion and I would be just working form with light weights. This movement is my biggest weakness. I lack the mobility and technique. The afternoon was bit of a different story because the clean and jerk I can go a little heavy in. 

During the clean and jerk portion, I wanted to find a new personal record. This required a lot of effort and I tried to get psyched up a bit. My blood sugars bumped up to 247. I bolused with a normal dose and the evening went fine despite pigging out on a cheeseburger and fries for dinner. I wanted the calories.

Normally, after a day like this I would be high all evening and then crash sometime. This would get me a ticket to ride the diabetes roller coaster until the next day. I am glad that I was not issued a ticket!

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Workout and Potato Starch

I worked out at CrossFit GP today. It was a lot of fun to work out with others. I coach a few classes a week there. I would like to be able to attend more classes, but my schedule doesn't work the best at times. I am going to try to make it into classes more often. Everyone is very supportive. Blood sugars were great. I haven't used much insulin at all today. 

I am starting to consume potato starch mixed with water. There has been a number people with diabetes see great results with their control and exercise while consuming potato starch. We will see how it goes. 

Deadlifts

Today I deadlifted and the blood sugars were great afterwards. Pre lifting, I was at 204. I required hardly any insulin at all to cover my dinner and at 8:00pm my level was at 89.