Because of how my schedule was today, I got to go home and eat lunch, go to a doctor’s appointment, and then go workout late afternoon rather than closer to dinner time.
When I was leaving my house after lunch to go to the doctor, my blood sugar was 152. Higher than normal, but I had pasta for lunch so I thought it’s fine I just ate quite a bit of carbs in comparison to normal.
When I was leaving the doctor about an hour later, my blood sugar was 76. Because I was going to the gym, I went ahead and suspended my delivery in hopes that it would increase by the time I got to the gym.
When I got to the gym, my blood sugar was 64 and dropping. Major eye roll. So I walked over to the grocery store and grabbed a gatorade and drank half of it. 45 minutes later, my blood sugar was finally 112 and had a single arrow going up, so it was increasing. I went through my first circuit and checked my blood sugar, expecting it to be a little high from the gatorade and it was 80 and dropping. AGAIN.
So I chugged the rest of the gatorade, unwilling to compromise my planned workout just because of my blood sugar. So I waited. And waited. After 35 minutes, I was 109, slowly going up, but still going up. I went ahead and started my next circuit and called it afterwards. When I was done my blood sugar was 124. By the time I got home 15 minutes later, it was 156 with a single arrow going up again.
It doesn’t always make sense. And it doesn’t always work out perfectly. Actually, it usually never works out exactly how I think it will. And I respond differently every time to the exact same thing.
But I do know 1 thing, waiting for almost an hour and a half to get my workout done is worth it. My blood sugar hovering around 100 most of the time makes it all worth it. It’s hard, frustrating, and complicated, but I would never compromise my health and exercise for my time.
So for those of you who aren’t exercising because of fear of hypoglycemia or fear because who knows what the heck is going to happen, I GET IT. I hear you. It is scary. And it’s annoying. And it’s an unknown every single time you exercise. But I do promise that carrying around some glucose tablets and/or a gatorade, talking to your doctor about how to begin an exercise program, it will be so much better long-run.
The rainbow comes after the storm, remember that.