Mastagon
15-02-2012, 01:57 PM
Hey Praetorian,
Had a question for you about diabetes. I've been lifting for 7-8 years now, and about 6 or so ago, I decided to start taking it seriously. I don't think I knew much about or cared much about healthy eating during the first few years of this, so my approach to lifting weights was reckless, and my approach to eating was the same. I ate just about anything I could, and made sure I ate the most I could every day. I never counted calories, just made sure I ate about every 2-3 hours. No vegetables, no fruit. Lots of junk, burgers, etc. It's only now in looking back, that I see how destructive both in quality and quantity the amount of food I was eating was.
So, about 2 years ago, I started feeling strange if I went too long between meals, and sometimes, depending on what I'd eat, lethargic and tired. I did eventually head to the hospital for a few tests, but there was little they could tell me. They did a blood-glucose test, and urine tests, and all of it came back fine. This didn't put me at ease, as I still felt there was something wrong, but I left it at that. I was sure it was carb related, so I spent the following two years being conscious of the carbs that I'd eat, and left it at that.
Of course, it has me worried. It has more or less continued, to varying degrees since then. Recently, though, I was forced to take time off from the gym for a few months due to a back injury, and now that I'm back in the gym semi-regularly, I find this is worse. My hunger is sometimes excessive, I feel tired or disoriented, depending on when I eat. I find that these feelings are subdued or non-existent for the days following a gym sessions, but they grow worse as the days go by, if I don't get to the gym again. I understand that physical exercise/muscle repair increase the caloric demands of my body, so it's my thought that going to the gym is helping to balance out what might be insulin resistance brought about through my eating habits. I've been to the hospital in the past week after a particularly bad day where I was feeling extremely tired and hungry and not well, and still the blood and urine tests come back fine. (though they tell me the sorts of tests they were able to do are not absolutely conclusive.) This is confusing and I would really appreciate your thoughts on this.
Had a question for you about diabetes. I've been lifting for 7-8 years now, and about 6 or so ago, I decided to start taking it seriously. I don't think I knew much about or cared much about healthy eating during the first few years of this, so my approach to lifting weights was reckless, and my approach to eating was the same. I ate just about anything I could, and made sure I ate the most I could every day. I never counted calories, just made sure I ate about every 2-3 hours. No vegetables, no fruit. Lots of junk, burgers, etc. It's only now in looking back, that I see how destructive both in quality and quantity the amount of food I was eating was.
So, about 2 years ago, I started feeling strange if I went too long between meals, and sometimes, depending on what I'd eat, lethargic and tired. I did eventually head to the hospital for a few tests, but there was little they could tell me. They did a blood-glucose test, and urine tests, and all of it came back fine. This didn't put me at ease, as I still felt there was something wrong, but I left it at that. I was sure it was carb related, so I spent the following two years being conscious of the carbs that I'd eat, and left it at that.
Of course, it has me worried. It has more or less continued, to varying degrees since then. Recently, though, I was forced to take time off from the gym for a few months due to a back injury, and now that I'm back in the gym semi-regularly, I find this is worse. My hunger is sometimes excessive, I feel tired or disoriented, depending on when I eat. I find that these feelings are subdued or non-existent for the days following a gym sessions, but they grow worse as the days go by, if I don't get to the gym again. I understand that physical exercise/muscle repair increase the caloric demands of my body, so it's my thought that going to the gym is helping to balance out what might be insulin resistance brought about through my eating habits. I've been to the hospital in the past week after a particularly bad day where I was feeling extremely tired and hungry and not well, and still the blood and urine tests come back fine. (though they tell me the sorts of tests they were able to do are not absolutely conclusive.) This is confusing and I would really appreciate your thoughts on this.