My understanding is that it's roughly 50% diet, 25% activity and 25% hormones/sleep/hydration/medication/angering or pleasing the gods. So exercise alone is very unlikely to do it unless the rest is in line.
Exercise helps and is necessary for sure, but if the fuel you’re putting into your body can’t get used, it’s going to be stored. Unfortunately, our T2 bodies are predisposed to do that inefficiently. It takes time for your body to respond to new routines, too.
I think of it like I’m constantly training my new blood cells that: food goes in the system, I work out, and they take the insulin signal to give me the energy I need. The older cells are sort of “stubborn” or “sick” with insulin resistance and can’t do that anymore, but he new ones haven’t learned the bad habits. The old cells get overwhelmed too easily. Because I’m T2, all of my cells are predisposed to insulin resistance, but I can stop that by treating them more gently (better nutrition, meds where helpful/needed). As the old cells die off, my insulin sensitivity gets better on the whole, and I can see better results from my actions.
I find that weight training for abdominal muscles really drives my numbers down, 20 points. I mean from my collarbones to my hips, those muscles. Pectorals, abdominal muscles. Frankly I am amazed by my numbers. I also walk, use a treadmill, and do exercise videos. But since I've really tried to focus on those abdominal muscles, my numbers have gone down significantly, even with some crazy (well maybe not so crazy) holiday eating.
They say “you can’t outrun your fork.” That’s true for weightloss, and is even more true for diabetes. If the sugar/carbs are ingested, the body is going to have to deal with them one way or another, and it’ll still have to hit the blood as glucose.
My understanding is that it's roughly 50% diet, 25% activity and 25% hormones/sleep/hydration/medication/angering or pleasing the gods. So exercise alone is very unlikely to do it unless the rest is in line.
Exercise helps and is necessary for sure, but if the fuel you’re putting into your body can’t get used, it’s going to be stored. Unfortunately, our T2 bodies are predisposed to do that inefficiently. It takes time for your body to respond to new routines, too.
I think of it like I’m constantly training my new blood cells that: food goes in the system, I work out, and they take the insulin signal to give me the energy I need. The older cells are sort of “stubborn” or “sick” with insulin resistance and can’t do that anymore, but he new ones haven’t learned the bad habits. The old cells get overwhelmed too easily. Because I’m T2, all of my cells are predisposed to insulin resistance, but I can stop that by treating them more gently (better nutrition, meds where helpful/needed). As the old cells die off, my insulin sensitivity gets better on the whole, and I can see better results from my actions.
I find that weight training for abdominal muscles really drives my numbers down, 20 points. I mean from my collarbones to my hips, those muscles. Pectorals, abdominal muscles. Frankly I am amazed by my numbers. I also walk, use a treadmill, and do exercise videos. But since I've really tried to focus on those abdominal muscles, my numbers have gone down significantly, even with some crazy (well maybe not so crazy) holiday eating.
They say “you can’t outrun your fork.” That’s true for weightloss, and is even more true for diabetes. If the sugar/carbs are ingested, the body is going to have to deal with them one way or another, and it’ll still have to hit the blood as glucose.