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I have a blood sugar meter my physician gave me last year when he was ruling out diabetes, and I'm wondering if it could reliably be used as some kind of gauge of the amount of glycogen you have available in your muscles.
I know that even in a non-diabetic person the blood sugar level does rise and fall in response to food intake, and I think glycogen stores rise and fall mainly in response to the amount of work the muscles have performed in a given amount of time, but there is obviously some kind of relationship between the two levels. For instance I'm wondering if perhaps I check my level immediately after a meal of low GI carbs and it is 115, then I check it again in 90 minutes and the level is 90, could I conclude from this that some of that sugar has been shuttled into the muscles and I'm approaching an optimal time for a workout.
Any ideas?
I know that even in a non-diabetic person the blood sugar level does rise and fall in response to food intake, and I think glycogen stores rise and fall mainly in response to the amount of work the muscles have performed in a given amount of time, but there is obviously some kind of relationship between the two levels. For instance I'm wondering if perhaps I check my level immediately after a meal of low GI carbs and it is 115, then I check it again in 90 minutes and the level is 90, could I conclude from this that some of that sugar has been shuttled into the muscles and I'm approaching an optimal time for a workout.
Any ideas?
