Calories...

[shootingstar]

I'm not perfect at all about high glycemic (and I still eat desserts) carbs but it does help that I heard it from 2 physicians.

One of them was my sister who is a doctor. She lost 50 lbs. herself when she got a blood sugar reading edging her close to diabetes 2. So she did adopt a different diet that was lower in glycemic index. She also took up jogging several times per week.

It does mean cutting out alot of bread and white rice from diet.

Of course things became more challenging, weight control wise, when she had 2 children, which included watching her diet closely so that she didn't get gestational diabetes while pregnant.

so the vigilance never goes away even if you think you have conquered it.

[Catrin]

No, that vigilance never goes away with blood sugar issues. I cut off high-glycemic carbs long ago...but we also still have to get enough carbs of the appropriate kind. My problem is I don't get enough... I am supposed to get 50% carbs in my diet and it is challenging to get that much... (50/30/20 carb/protein/fat split)

What I get on the bike just doesn't count - and I get a LOT on the bike. I learned the hard way last summer about how important that is - but of course I do enjoy very long rides and I am also prone to true hypoglycemia as well.

Intense exercise is the other part of my anti-diabetes campaign, and the length recovery period this winter meant that I couldn't really do ANY real cardio work for almost 3 month. I think my current blood-sugar issues are actually more related to that - and as I ramp my exercise back up that should change

It isn't diet or exercise, it is both/and

[Melalvai]

I'm not convinced that the 50% carbs recommendation is founded in anything at all. As far as I can tell it's just a random number with no evidence to back it up. Anyone know of actual research on this?

[limewave]

I would give it a try for awhile too. You may be surprised. Give it a go for 30 days, see how it goes. You can always cut back to 1500 calories a day if it doesn't work out.