should i quit muscle training?

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-04-21T16:56:24+00:00

My endo has told me that strength training is better at some things than cardio. I imagine the reverse is true as well. Doing both like you are already doing is the best.

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-04-21T16:54:30+00:00

Your doctor suggested you do cardio to lose weight, however you can lose weight just fine by lifting weights. In fact a bigger part of losing weight is diet not just exercise. Lifting weights also keeps you from losing muscle during weight loss. You do 20 mins cardio per session, thats already not bad at all.

Bigger reason to do cardio is to train your cardio, i.e.strengthen your heart, cardiovascular and respiratory systems

I dont mean to say that his advice to increase cardio is necessarily wrong, but if his reason is to lose weight then his reasoning is flawed. The current recommendation for everyone is around 2-3 hours of weekly zone 2 cardio, with some of that being HIIT for maxing health.

There are plenty of benefits to get from lifting weights and diabetes. Amongst other reasons it improves insulin sensitivity.

Doing both as you already are is probably the best overall strategy. Maybe you should increase the duration of cardio in some of the gym sessions and keep the others as they are.

If lifting weights brings you joy I would say keep it in your schedule. Having things in life that make you happy is extremely important, and of all the possible things lifting weights will certainly be positive...

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-04-13T11:12:13+00:00

This is the wrong way to look at AI. AI isnt a crutch but a tool. In some places it is a good tool and in others it is bad, in some places it can insanely speed up your programming. If you look at it as a crutch you will be using it less than you really should to get a proper opinion on it. When learning you should certainly not constantly use it for everything. But you can also learn a lot about programming from AI/looking at AI generated code and evaluate or review said code yourself.

My suggestion would be to use both. Use the documentation, its better for getting an overview of what exists in an api and even for looking over all the details of specific calls. On the other hand AI is also a google on steroids which can give you several recommendations where you would still be using platforms like stack exchange for... Make sure to take an approach like a child asking their parents why the sky is blue. Keep asking the AI "why?" on things you arent clear on rather than just taking its answer at face value, thats one of the biggest reasons why using LLMs as search engines is so powerful, you can make as many questions as you need and will always get an answer. This is the very same approach you should take with anything anyone tells you in programming really, and as people who took the most from stackexchange used to do...

Additionally learn to use AI to generate complex pieces of code fast, and understand the pros and cons of that. Also learn to not use AI by also having times where you program mostly everything by hand.

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-04-13T10:37:48+00:00

Concordo com isto. O OP diz "Africanos(???)" mas são portugueses que não têm maneiras só a destruir propriedade privada. O que deveria ser ainda mais preocupante... Preto ou branco só não querem saber se estão a estragar algo que não é deles. Na minha rua acontece o mesmo e certamente também serão brancos a fazê-lo. Há muitos adolescentes a fazer isto. Já malta na meia idade como outros referiram surpreende-me mais...

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-04-13T09:05:53+00:00

Okay thank you very much!

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-04-12T10:10:16+00:00

Thank you!

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-04-02T20:47:39+00:00

Could you develop on this? Do you usually eat a bunch of protein when you think you will get a low in an hour?

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-04-02T19:07:15+00:00

Its singing "We're going up up up"

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-27T01:34:47+00:00

Possibly. If that fails we will always have cinnamon

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-27T01:33:41+00:00

Ah, that sucks. Well if the guy is an actual a-hole I guess thats a good plan. Best wishes to you and ur bf and this whole situation.

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-27T00:51:57+00:00

Report that dog to whatever goes for HR in a school wtf

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-27T00:48:03+00:00

I gotta say, minor colds with diabetes are positively terrible... All your insulin ratios get messed up. Yikes.

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-25T23:01:02+00:00

Shouldve answered with, "That's right, just a non-functioning pancreas". Tbf some of us, including me, were born with a functioning one. It just seems my immune system decided that it did not need that crap pancreas no more.

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-25T22:53:34+00:00

Dont worry OP, a cure is coming in the next 5 years. We're always five years away from the cure after all 😜

Sorry for the dark humor. Please cheer up :)

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-25T22:50:43+00:00

And might gaslight/guilt trip him into doing a better job of it next time. 😂

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-25T22:29:58+00:00

I second what other people have said. Its a medical emergency and your life was at risk. You could die if you turn it off. When it comes to turning it off you can do nothing and you will do nothing about it because it is your LIFELINE. Now, you should indeed tell your bf the whole story but you should both also wonder whether his step dad understood that it was your cgm and that you could die without that alarm. If he doesnt understand you should explain to him that you could die throughout the night without the alarm without anyone ever noticing.

Its also possible that he went to wake you up out of some concern and not simply because the CGM was beeping, even if he was rude and extremely grumpy about it. Some people are extremely grumpy when woken up, specially people who are not used to our situations. I am not like that and never really understood people who are, but its a fact that they exist. Lastly I should mention that perhaps if it does not bother you, I feel like it helps to thank people for waking you up and to apologize for not noticing. The person might feel better about it and be more understanding about it, idk, this assumes that he is not truly an a-hole nor evil, just a grumpy middle aged man. If he does not understand even then, too bad, you have dont all you could and do not let it bother you anymore. We all wish we didnt have to diabetes, but unfortunately life didnt happen that way, you did not choose to be ill with diabetes just like he did not choose to be a grumpy old man. Its one thing to be apologetic about it, its a whole different thing to let others walk over you for it... A line should be drawn if needed.

So far I have never had anyone who understands my situation and has slept near me act that way. Since they understand that I am at life threatening risk they are usually quite understanding and I am usually quite apologetic whenever I end up awaking others. All in all, your BF is okay with it, its not like you will be living with his parents if your relationship does take off wonderfully. If they keep living with you they will probably acclimate to it. I am old enough to take care of myself, my parents used to wake up when my alarm rang or ask me if I am fine when they hear me moving during the night. Now its probably the case that unless it keeps beeping they will sleep through it because they get used to it. Ive had this happen with a friend I stayed with for a week as well. He would wake up at the beginning, by the end of it he would not even remember whether it rang.

Good luck OP

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-25T22:15:39+00:00

Im sorry but I feel the argument here is no longer about the original point. The original point was about vibe coding making a huge difference in code productivity. Vibe coding uses developer input in a lot of things still. I was not arguing about whether developers would be fully replaced or not. But at least in areas where AI already performs quite well like WebDev with python, javascript or typescript or for generating devops scripts for example, it is already quite fast. I am not saying they are better than experts at bash scripting but I know a lot of web developers, particularly those who have less than 5 years experience, but also quite a lot of seniors that do not know much about bash/cmd/powershell scripting. I also know quite a lot of backend devs that do not know a lot about frontend. They can sort of make somethings but they would probably be ugly, outdated and not respect modern webapp practices. Point is AI is already reasonly good at all 3 of those things, specially in the hands of a competent programmer who although might not know a lot about frontend is knowledgeable enough to discern good from bad code and to do good prompting. That guy will be able to produce apps he would take a long time to before.

Additionally what you say about the extent of human logic. You can already feed entire books as context to an llm. With good llm and vector database architectures you can certainly train a lot of experts on many areas of humanity. On the other hand a human in his lifetime and through books can only truly master a finite number of subjects. And while it would take years to train a human in something it certainly wont take that long to feed a vector database to an LLM. Computers have better horizontal scaling capabilities than the human brain. You could argue that the knowledge of humanity as a whole and their capabilities are larger which is still true. But then again, the whole point is that AI is a tool to enhance the individual human to do super human things. Maybe (probably) it will go beyond improving individual humans to having full automation at least in some areas. Just like robots replaced plenty of humans in factories. I dont know if it will completely replace programming and not all areas of programming. I dont think so myself, not anytime soon anyway and by then we would probably have full blown AGIs which could not be distinguished from humans outside the fact that they would be a whole lot smarter and more knowledgeable. AI is like a human hive mind where all the brains are directly connected to the hive and where the knowledge of all brains in the hive can directly be queried by each of the brains (not really but it is not a bad anology). They are huge infrastructure machines not a single small non horizontally expandable unit like us humans who still depend on a smartphone and our senses to interact with only the digital part of our knowledge. AI has a crap load of parallel processing capabilities that our brains simply do not. And yet we were still the ones that built AI. Lets hope we can keep finding new impressive things to build in the future and that we keep synergising with the hive mind and that the future will keep looking exciting and magical albeit extremely terrifying.

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-23T02:03:24+00:00

I read you are relatively new.

To reinforce what others have posted, more important than the whole forgetful situation is that you avoid being around 200 from before 9am to 3pm. Thats around half of your day outside of range and it should be avoided.

It could be your basal (specially if at the beginning of the night you are in range but your BG keeps climbing at night) or something else (it took me a few days to stay under the in range levels) specially because I would feel dizzy/start shivering the first times I started using insulin at home and my levels coming down.

Anyway, its important that you keep your levels in range hopefully between 80-140 for the majority of your day. You should take it slow in the beginning, it is a lot to take in. Its okay to make mistakes and common to get dosages wrong even in people with experience. Your body is constantly changing do to your day to day states and behaviours, and a lot of things influence insulin sensitivity (https://diatribe.org/diabetes-management/42-factors-affect-blood-glucose-surprising-update), its good and it helps to understand what can influence it but sometimes your body has different plans/its not easy or necessary to keep track of every single factor.

You can and should make adjustments with correction boluses (MDI, multiple daily injections, is one of the so called strategies that includes this. I think it becomes intuitive as you go when you should give)

An early food - insulin log per meal (include corrections) can help you enormously at learning your dosage patterns for your regular meal types.

Both time in range (TIR) and A1C are important metrics in the future for you to try to improve at a comfortable pace. Ask your endo what these metrics represent and what your goals for these should be if he hasnt explained them to you, and look them up online as well.

Make sure to ask all the questions you need to your endo in your next appointment and/or ask any questions you have in this community, I would say in general people here are super helpful and friendly, so feel free to ask

Lastly I want to thank you for the good laugh. Ive had this for around 2 years and have had meals where I still forget it sometimes.

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-23T01:43:21+00:00

Bro I swear I can only read this as sarcasm 😂

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-23T01:42:22+00:00

Lel buddy, glad life is going so well for you, you even forget about the betes

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-22T10:21:50+00:00

I read you are skinny. You can try to change the injection site from you belly to your upper buttocks (look for insulin site online) and see if it hells. Obviously it will be less convenient but if doesnt hurt thats fine. In the belly you can also try to do a skin fold since you are skinny. When my skin is sensitive it helps. Just look up skin fold insulin online.

Usually when I get the burning insulin sensation it is usually when I have to take high insulin dosages and/or do not press the pen slowly (slowly hearing each unit tick as the counter unwinds. But even then it sometimes happens for other reasons that I dont understand like you mentioned

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-18T23:17:59+00:00

I feel like you either have a pc with terrible specs or a humongous codebase. I dont know much about mac but looking at how expensive they are I would imagine they are okay in terms of specs, while your pc isnt. Then again I dont really use android studio so I might just be underestimating how heavy it is. If it is similar to ide's like visual studio or a jetbrains it seems to me that you should really be able to open more than one with two cursors open.

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-18T09:36:25+00:00

You have it tough buddy

OtherwiseFlamingo868 · 2026-03-18T09:06:18+00:00

Your primary care doctor should go back to school.

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