How did you come to that conclusion?
Glucose dependence......to be honest, I don't know. Partly because I'm not sure exactly what it means. What I think it means is 'can I go about my daily life without being permanently attached to a glucose IV feed or the constant feeding and need for glucose'.....then yes. I do not wake up to eat a bowl of marshmallows and candy floss. Or even a banana. I can and do often not eat, more circumstantial than any planned dietary thing. I am however food dependent, and do eat carbohydrates. Sometimes a lot, sometimes a little. Today I had an omelette with spring onion and spinach for breakfast. If I didn't have spring onion and spinach on hand, it would have been an omelette. I really didn't need the spinach nor spring onion to get me going for the day. But sometimes though I have fruit for breakfast.
I could, I suppose, be glucose dependent because I don't know if the protein in the egg was utilised for glucose metabolism. I've yet to eat anything else, back from my dog walk (8K) I'm planning dinner - couple bits of steak in a garlic and herb cream sauce, baked potato, roasted cherry tomatoes, roasted yellow pepper and spinach. Strawberries and double cream for dessert. Good telly drama on later, a bar of chocolate will go down well. My name is on it. Not training today.
Am I glucose dependent? Am I in energy balance? No idea.
I'll find out tomorrow, I may eat more or less, we'll see.
Now had today been a sprint training day, all would be pretty much the same just dessert would be custard and bananas probably.
Had today been a competitive sprint, it would have been the same but with bananas, fruit and nut and milk post race. And who knows, maybe champagne? The latter, unlikely, by the way!
For non competitive sprinters it is very difficult to describe the level of fatigue after a warm up and max sprint. I ran 3 races, a couple weeks back, won my heat, didn't qualify in the next round and 2nd in a veterans final. I didn't stop eating for 3 days, mostly carbs. This season has finished and I've not sprinted for 2 weeks so my total daily food is pretty stable in comparison, as is my 'need' for glucose.
I'll willingly race a keto adapted sprinter any day of the week. Champagne for me!! I don't know any though, bit of a shame.
Overall then, I think I'm metabolically flexible and not glucose dependent for my daily living despite having a reasonably balanced - and in my opinion - healthy diet despite eating carbohydrates, sometimes higher than what some may consider to be weird these days.