2. When you weight train, you burn up all the glycogen (stored sugar) in your muscles, so the best time to eat carbs is after you workout so you can replenish those glycogen stores, and your muscle won't break itself down because you just fed it carbs & insulin to fill your muscles with glycogen (carbs =glucose= glycogen).
3. Unless you're involved in major training (example: for a marathon, powerlifting, swim team etc.), the average diabetic athelete will benefit from a lower carb/higher protein diet. This is explained in many of Andrew's articles, but I've found the biggest benefit from this is that you use less insuiln and therefore store less fat on your body, eat less foods likely to spike your blood sugar and therefore maintain more steady blood sugars throughout the day.
Today, I aim to eat 5 to 6 meals a day of protein, some carbs and healthy fats usually from nuts (I don't like cooking fish...but fish is good too). I eat carbs before and after my training because I am in the exception as I am training for powerlifting. But if I were aiming to lose weight and increase my overall weight, I would aim to only eat my carbs first thing in the morning and after my exercise.
The main reason I can keep so active during the day training people, training myself and teaching yoga, is because a few years ago when I really made athletics a bigger part of my life, I did a lot of research on myself to understand my diabetes better! I checked my blood sugar all the time. I experimented with eating less carbs (I was very skeptical of this at first, and Andrew assured me I wouldn't drop low, I'd simply need to reduce my insulin needs...and he was right), and I continually adjusted my insulin doses to help me keep balanced.
Basically, anything is possible if you're willing to take the time to learn about your body and work hard. Just because it's confusing or challenging at first, doesn't mean it's not worth putting effort into. Learning how to understand your blood sugars, nutrition and exercise NOW will help keep you healthy for the seventy years!
A few other helpful sites:
To help you understand different exercises
-Ginger
