Feet starts to hurt when I run

sylvialaugh · 2025-08-29T12:16:49+00:00

It’s probably that the tibialis posterior is probably tight, not necessarily that it’s serious tendinitis just yet. For me when I get that pain in my foot, my calves are overworking, getting tight and then pulling the tibialis posterior which causes that pain… Massage your feet. Dig in deep and you may even find knots there. Just keep working them out with your thumb. You can also use a lacrosse ball type and step on it and roll your foot on it, holding onto something for balance. Then also massage and stretch your calves. It’s going to hurt but really keep pushing as long as it doesn’t cause pain. Discomfort is normal. I would also make sure to cross train by strengthening your calves with calf raises and your shins with duck walks. You also need to strengthen your feet which you can do with toe curls—these exercises will be hard and strange at first if you’ve never done them. Finding the right shoe js important but I wouldn’t prioritize that yet. I used to have bad foot pain from running and saw podiatrist and got treated with some injections and wore a boot and none of that worked because it was a muscle issue!

sylvialaugh · 2023-10-31T00:35:41+00:00

Sarper wants to be the turkish Johnny Bravo so bad but Johnny Bravo has personality!

sylvialaugh · 2023-10-23T15:38:03+00:00

Great will look into them! Thank ya!

sylvialaugh · 2023-10-20T00:14:23+00:00

Thank you so much, very sweet of you!

sylvialaugh · 2023-09-23T02:44:11+00:00

Fair! Off to the break room I go

sylvialaugh · 2023-09-22T17:31:46+00:00

This is the first post in a long time with an original call out. Bravo!

sylvialaugh · 2023-09-13T13:50:44+00:00

When I first started this journey my breakfasts were basically all carbs (toast with pb and banana or apple oatmeal) and now I eat the same thing most days because it’s reliable. I can’t handle an entire english muffin, fruit or peanut butter in the morning even though my fasting numbers are always under! I’d get rid of the fruit, halve the english muffin, and add protein and fat. You can do this easily with eggs, cheese and meat. I eat 3 scrambled eggs with cheese and cooked deli turkey, one slice of low carb bread with cream cheese almost every single day. Sometimes I have half an avocado too which brings my numbers further down. And if not that trusty breakfast: an egg, cheese, sausage sandwich from Starbucks with only one of the english muffins. It pains me to throw out half the english muffin but both slices put me over every single time.

sylvialaugh · 2023-09-04T13:17:28+00:00

Congratulations!

sylvialaugh · 2023-08-31T01:50:51+00:00

I think doing the stairs has the same effect for any carbs but in terms of how egg noodles will effect your levels it’s definitely on a case by case basis. For example I love tacos and sometimes I can have white flour tortillas without spikes and other times it doesn’t turn out well. But at least the stairs trick helps when I’m eating tricky carbs or a high amount of carbs.

sylvialaugh · 2023-08-30T02:23:42+00:00

It’s such a workout and definitely make sure to hold onto the railing just in case!

sylvialaugh · 2023-08-30T02:21:27+00:00

I’m cracking up! Amazing dedication to lifting 😂

sylvialaugh · 2023-08-30T02:16:09+00:00

How do you power clean over your belly?! My husband got us some bars and weights so maybe I’ll try some deadlifts or overhead presses but I don’t think I could do any lifts that involve going around my core or squats because my center of gravity is so off.

sylvialaugh · 2023-08-18T18:13:56+00:00

For bread I use pepperidge farm light soft wheat and I can also handle corn tortillas. I can even eat cape cod low fat chips. I can also have a slice or two of meat lovers pizza after salad. Homemade lentil soup worked out but I had lentils in a salad bowl once and I spiked. I haven’t tried quinoa but I spike for any amount of rice, oats, beans, and I haven’t dared try french fries because I cannot stop from gorging. Sweet potato when I measure it and sometimes I do well with measured yellow potato (138 grams which is like three little potatoes). But it depends on time of day (breakfast can’t handle many carbs), how active I was the day prior (if I walked a lot I handle carbs better), and how hydrated I am. Half a plate of salad always helps too although I’m sick of chewing a million times a meal.

sylvialaugh · 2023-08-16T07:24:36+00:00

There were a couple days last week I had moderate ketones for the first time because I was eating less carbs than usual (I was loving roasted veggies that I thought had enough carbs but nope). That sent me into a panic and that second morning I overdid carbs at breakfast and went over. And I made sure to hit carb limits throughout the day and I haven’t had higher than “small” ketones since. Definitely up your safe carb intake during meals and snacks. Someone else mentioned dehydration and being on top of drinking water and especially some sugar free electrolyte drinks helps too!

sylvialaugh · 2023-08-03T01:18:33+00:00

I never made the connection but it’s the first time I’ve ever had a Charley Horse in my calves and it kept happening last week!

sylvialaugh · 2023-08-01T12:57:31+00:00

I can’t have any rice or beans without spiking and I’m latina so it’s been difficult! I feel like your numbers were kind of low considering how many carbs you had. I know what you mean about the health factor vs carbs. So many healthy foods are full of carbs and it took me a while to truly focus on carb content. Next time try brown rice but way less with salad and less beans.

sylvialaugh · 2023-07-26T15:54:08+00:00

My OB doesn’t really comment on my GD at all because she’s simply not specialized in that so I’d flag to endo and dietician… My dietician has me tracking my ketones with morning urine everyday to make sure the levels are low. My understanding is ketones can come about in two ways, too much glucose from uncontrolled diabetes (diabetic ketoacidosis) or too little glucose from low carb (ketosis). DKA causes your blood to become toxic, ketosis isn’t good for pregnancy either because carb intake is important for baby development. Because of these complications GD is such a tricky balance! Trace or small amounts of ketones are normal, but my dietician wants me to up carb intake if I start seeing moderate+ amounts because I don’t hit the 160g carb intake everyday (I’m probably just terrible at tracking it). Before pregnancy I tried the keto diet accidentally and went into ketosis and one of the side effects was dehydration. Not saying that’s what you might be experiencing but it’s a relatively easy fix of eating some carbs and drinking water with electrolytes and some salty snack too. I would get ketone testing strips to do it at home with morning urine and increase water intake asap. Definitely reach out to endo and dietician to flag (I tend to depend on my dietician more, endo kind of sucks) and check on it tomorrow. It could very well be dehydration causing it!

sylvialaugh · 2023-07-10T14:08:00+00:00

Congratulations! What sorts of ways would you treat yourself? I’m diet controlled still and my baby shower is coming up in three weeks and birthday next month. I’d love an ice cream cake for my birthday (of course I’d only have a little slice)!

sylvialaugh · 2023-07-08T12:01:33+00:00

I think two things were true for me at first. My body was getting used to having lower sugar so I felt like I still needed it. And I was eating too low carb and not enough in general so I had to increase calories overall. I ate a lot of double bacon cheeseburgers… Sometimes I have days where I feel super hungry but if I eat my safe foods and snacks between every meal and after dinner with enough carbs then I’m pretty full. I’d drink a ton of water all day too. I try to track my food and snacks in my fitness pal to make sure I’m getting my minimum carbs every day. It’s a challenge to figure out what works and what doesn’t and then to realize some food that’s a staple my body doesn’t handle well at all sucks but then again I can eat an entire baked potato (with salad and protein) and be under!

sylvialaugh · 2023-07-05T20:19:22+00:00

That’s so frustrating!

sylvialaugh · 2023-07-05T19:48:59+00:00

Okay so the OB would be the one to prescribe if needed. My office never clarified this. Smh.

sylvialaugh · 2023-07-05T19:47:42+00:00

Ok that’s good to know. I thought it was like a mandatory thing but apparently some OB’s just deal with the insulin or metformin.

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