Your E factor?

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Well folks, I will in the near future be taking a long vacation. Before I

go there, I am still on my soapbox, and I will continue to express my

opinions, which are usually founded in research and practical experience.

Right now I need your help. I need each of you to tell me the truth about

your body. Specificly, I need to know what kind of exercise you do, how

long you do it, what you do before exercising and what you do afterwards.

Are you a type 1 or a type 2 diabetic?

As you know, or as you should know, all people are encouraged and advised to

exercise on a regular basis. As much as I hate to exercise, and believe me

I do hate to do it, because it makes me tingle like little pens sticking in

my skin, makes my heart race fast, Makes my muscles sore, makes me tired and

sweaty and stink. Yes, it really does all of these things, which I find to

be unpleasant experiences. Knowing all these things makes me want to avoid

all the exercise I can avoid. I like being lazy and eating, sleeping and

eating plus a few other things. Exercising takes up my time, too.

If I don't do it, I feel good. I even feel good for several days or even

weeks. If I don't exercise I just loose some strength and endurance stamina

after five or so days of not exercising. The problem or at least one of

them, is once you start exercising to get in shape, you have to keep doing

it or loose every thing you have gained by doing it in the first place. So

you may wonder why even bring up the subject?

Research shows time after time and again and again the best way for a person

to extend their life expectancy by doing just one thing is exercise. Once

you get in shape, exercise also makes you feel better. I am not talking

about becoming an olympic athlete. I exercise to make me feel better, and

if I do not exercise regularly, I soon begin to feel listless and ennui.

The E factor is something every diabetic should know. All diabetics are

different so every body's E factor will probably be different and just

specific for that individudal diabetic. To complicate the E factor further

it probably varies from time to time even in the same individual. Depending

on lots of things it changes. I have had my E factor be very slight and

also very extreme, depending on the type and duration of the exercise I

perform. I have had my E factor vary as little as 5 points and as much as

80 points. To put this in mole perspectives this means a variability of 0.3

up to 5.0 moles. I call this quite a spread, and you need to protect

yourself from a rebound effect, which causes extremely high glucose sugars

and tiredness listlessness, and ennui, or ketoacidosis, which can be

deadly.

So it is time for every body to get off their duffs and pitch in. You can

be of help to all of us here. So let's have it!