Your Best T1D Year
By Neil Greathouse
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Managing Type 1 Diabetes doesn’t have to be overwhelming.
Each 5-minute episode of Your Best T1D Year is packed with practical strategies, mindset shifts, and a little humor to help you feel more in control and less frustrated by diabetes.
Hosted by Neil Greathouse, this Monday, Wednesday, and Friday podcast delivers quick, relatable episodes that make learning about T1D effortless - so you can build small wins that lead to big changes.
📅 New episodes drop every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
🎧 Subscribe now and start making diabetes management feel easier - one small habit at a time.
| Episode | Date |
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Your Pre-Sleep Blood Sugar Check Is a Sleep Decision, Not Just a Safety Check
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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T1D Sleep Challenge: Four Weeks In, What We've Learned
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May 29, 2026 |
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How to Adjust CGM Alarm Thresholds for Better Sleep with Type 1 Diabetes
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May 27, 2026 |
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CGM Alarm Fatigue in Type 1 Diabetes: How Your Alerts Are Wrecking Your Sleep
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May 25, 2026 |
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What Type 1 Diabetes Actually Does to Your Sleep Architecture | Episode 200
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May 22, 2026 |
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Bedtime Consistency and T1D: Why Timing Beats Total Hours for Blood Sugar Control
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May 20, 2026 |
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The T1D Sleep-Blood Sugar Feedback Loop
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May 18, 2026 |
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The Dawn Phenomenon in Type 1 Diabetes: Why Your Blood Sugar Rises While You Sleep
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May 15, 2026 |
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Why Sleep Deprivation Hits Harder When You Have T1D
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May 13, 2026 |
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One Night of Poor Sleep Reduces Insulin Sensitivity
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May 11, 2026 |
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What's Really Causing Your Unexplained Blood Sugars
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May 08, 2026 |
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Sleep and Blood Sugar in Type 1 Diabetes
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May 06, 2026 |
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Why People with T1D Can't Sleep Through the Night
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May 04, 2026 |
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Why Your Mystery Blood Sugars Might Be a Sleep Problem
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May 01, 2026 |
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So Many Of Your Community Wins // Part 2
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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So Many Of Your Wins // Part 1
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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The Mental Side of T1D that Nobody's Treating // Allison Nimlos, The Diabetic Therapist
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Banting Would Want You To Drink More Water
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Your New Baseline For Water
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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What Are We Learning About Refilling?
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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The Vicious Cycle of Low Potassium
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Why Your 180 Looks Like a 220
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Before Insulin, Dehydration Was a Death Sentence
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Sick Day Hydration Protocol
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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The Yeti, The Stanley, The Owala
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Why 3 Glasses of Water Really Matters
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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What Each Glass Of Water Actually Does
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Sick Days & Dehydration
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Protect Your Kidneys
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Electrolytes & Why T1Ds Need More
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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The Cortisol Dehydration Spiral
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Why Your Insulin Feels Slow
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Your Brain Is 75% Water - Here's What Happens When You're Low
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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The 9 Year Study That Changed Everything
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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The Hormone Nobody Talks About - Meet Vassopressin
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Does Coffee Count? The Hydration Debate
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Why Standard Hydration Advice Fails Us Living With T1D
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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What Dehydration Does To Your Blood Sugar
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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The Hydration Challenge // Why Your Blood Feels Like Aunt Jemima
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Life After the Low Blood Sugar Challenge
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Untangling "I'm lows" from "I deserve this"
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Old You vs New You and Low Blood Sugar
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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The Mental Weight of Low Blood Sugars
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Decision Fatigue And Low Blood Sugar
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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From T1D To Cured // Katie Beth’s Life After Islet Transplant
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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What To Do When You Still Over-treat Lows
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Low Blood Sugars & Emotional Eating
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Super Bowl Low Blood Sugar Game Plan
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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When Other People Offer to “Help Us” During A Low
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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How To Stop Low Blood Sugars From Running Your Day
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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What Panic Treating a Low Actually Costs You
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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The Real Reason Lows Turn Into Overeating (Don't Be Mad At Me)
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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What Happens When You Wait Too Long to Treat a Low
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Why Your Brain Fights Glucose Tablets (And How to Retrain It)
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Why Your Brain Panics During a Low (And What to Do About It)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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The Low Blood Sugar Rebound Nobody Warns You About
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Why Glucose Tablets Work Better Than Food for Low Blood Sugar
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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PBMs, Insulin, And The Broken System Keeping Prices High with George Huntley
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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The Rule of 15 (And Why We Ignore It)
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Passing Out from a Low Taught Me This About Treating Blood Sugar Safely
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Glucose Tablets vs Food for Lows // What Actually Works Faster
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Why Your Low Blood Sugars Keep Rebounding High (and how to stop it)
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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12 Months of Wins - What This Year Taught Us
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Get Ahead: Pre-Build Your Best T1D Year
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Post Holiday Reset: Small Moves Win
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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The Best Gift: Finish Strong, Start Real
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Stacey Simms: What 2025 Taught Us About Type 1 Diabetes, Community & Beyond
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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The Moment You Decide Changes Everything
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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The Science Behind Every Diabetes Habit
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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2026 T1D Habits Roadmap Revealed
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Celebrating Your Unseen Wins
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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How Far T1D Care Has Come
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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How Naomi Garlick Created Glow Gummies to Fix T1D Lows
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Treating Lows: Tablets & Gummies That Work
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Your Wins That Changed Everything
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Looking Back: The Year That Changed Us
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Day After Reset + December Sneak Peek
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Thanksgiving Without the Glycemic Hangover
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Dr. David Ahn on Diabetes Burnout, Getting Off Track, and the Psychology of T1D
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Diabetes Signal Overload? Here’s How to Reset Your Alerts & Mind
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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How to Build a Diabetes Backup Plan That Actually Works
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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How to Handle Travel, Buffets, and Holidays Without Blood-Sugar Chaos
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Carb Counting Reset: How to Stop Guessing and Get Numbers You Trust
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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How to Tune Out Diabetes Noise and Focus on What Matters
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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How to Reset After You Drift: Nate Checketts on Mindset, Movement, and Micro-Habits for T1D
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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How Long It Really Takes to Get Back on Track with Type 1 Diabetes
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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When Type 1 Diabetes Feels Like Hydroplaning: How to Regain Control
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Why You’re “Off Track” (and How to Get Your Edge Back with T1D)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Building a Diabetes Distress Support Team
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Diabetes Distress: Taming Alarms & Alerts
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Dr Bill Polonsky on the Diabetes Distress Scale
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Peer Support That Helps Diabetes Distress
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Diabetes Mindfulness Without the Fluff
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Diabetes Distress Paths: Skills & Feelings
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Tracking Diabetes Distress Triggers
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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What the 28 Diabetes Distress Questions Show Us
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Marriage & Diabetes Distress // Special Guest Gina Greathouse
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Diabetes Distress: How to Use Your Score Without Shame
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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The 7 Questions That Measure Diabetes Distress
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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How Common is Diabetes Distress, Really?
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Diabetes Distress Isn’t Depression
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Where Did Diabetes Distress Come From?
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Mindfulness with Diabetes Sangha
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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No Time To Reset, 60-Second Stress Tools for Type 1 Diabetes
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Evening Resets for Type 1 Diabetes, Better Overnight Glucose
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Exercise and Type 1 Diabetes, Why Workouts Spike You and What Helps
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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CGM Alarms and T1D, Reset Fast and Take Control
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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T1D at Work, Quick Resets for Midday Spikes
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Type 1 Diabetes, Food Joy, and Five Minute Resets with Mila Clarke, @thehangrywoman
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Pre-Meal Micro Resets for Type 1 Diabetes, Lower Post-Meal Spikes
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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T1D Mindset Reset, Choose Curiosity Not Judgment
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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T1D Reset Toolkit, Small Tools That Change Your Day
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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5 Minutes That Help T1D, The Science and the How
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Type 1 Diabetes, Why Stress Spikes Blood Sugar and What To Do
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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T1D Stress and Blood Sugar, Five Minute Reset
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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When to Call It: Replace Tech Before Frustration Wins
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Your Pump Is Better at Math Than You (And That’s a Good Thing)
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Special Guest // Justin Eastzer @diabe_tech
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Track Smarter, Not Harder: Food & Management Apps for T1D
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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CGM Accuracy, Lag & When to Trust Your Gut
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Low-Tech Wins: Tracking Without a CGM or Pump
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Sunscreen, Sweat & Sensor Survival
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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CGM Site Rotation & Skin Strategy
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Special Guest // Endocrinologist Dr. Monica Gomberg
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Why Pump Site Rotation Actually Matters
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Alarm Fatigue, App Overload & Notification Chaos
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Bluetooth 101: Keep Your Tech on the Same Side
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Tech Troubles & Triumphs
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Can You Exercise Without a CGM?
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Special Guest // Rob Howe - Diabetics Doing Things
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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How to Plan for the Exercise (or race)
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Why Lifting Isn’t Just for Dudes in Tank Tops
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Let’s Talk About Basal Insulin
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Stacking Habits (Without Burning Out)
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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What If I Go High and Low?
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Special Guest // Ginger Vieira - Movement, Mindset, Blood Sugars
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Zone 2 Isn’t Just for Triathletes
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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The Blood Sugar Dip Before the Spike
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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You Don’t Have to ‘Earn’ Your Movement
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Explaining Your Low Snack to Strangers
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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What If I Crash at the Gym?
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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You Made It to the End—and the Beginning
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Pre-Bolusing with Inhaled Insulin: Timing, Benefits, and Considerations
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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What the Numbers Actually Say
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Wins That Don’t Show Up on a Graph
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Your Pre-Bolus Toolkit
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Pre-Bolusing with AID Tech (Yep, Still Worth It)
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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What to Do When It Goes Sideways
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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The Pre-Bolus Window
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Type 1 Diabetes - True Stories
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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True Stories, Real Stats—And a Book Launch!
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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But What If I Go Low?
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Why Food Always Wins the Race (Unless You Pre-Bolus)
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Let’s Talk Pre-Bolusing (Without the Shame)
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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You Did That. Sleep, Struggle, and a Whole Lot of Growth.
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May 30, 2025 |
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Diabetes Tech: Friend or Sleep-Sabotaging Frenemy?
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May 28, 2025 |
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Dear Caregivers: You Deserve Sleep Too
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May 26, 2025 |
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The Real Reasons We Don’t Go to Bed On Time
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May 23, 2025 |
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Sleep, Stress & T1D Burnout (It’s Not Just You)
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May 21, 2025 |
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Why You’re Hungrier After a Bad Night’s Sleep
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May 19, 2025 |
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Sleep, Brain Fog, and the Carb Count You Forgot
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May 16, 2025 |
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Why Sleep Affects BG Variability, Not Just Averages
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May 14, 2025 |
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What Sleep Does to Our Morning Basal Needs
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May 12, 2025 |
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Craving Carbs After a Bad Night of Sleep? Here’s Why.
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May 09, 2025 |
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Sleep & High Blood Sugar: What’s the Connection?
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May 07, 2025 |
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The 10PM Alarm (And Why I’m Actually Using It)
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May 05, 2025 |
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The Most Ignored T1D Hack (That Works While You Sleep)
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May 02, 2025 |
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What Changed After 4 Weeks of Walking?
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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How Walking Helped Me Avoid a Blood Sugar Spiral
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Feeling Stressed? Walk It Off (Literally)
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Is 10,000 Steps a Magic Number? (Spoiler: Nope)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Can Walking Prevent Highs Before They Start?
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Can Walking Lower Stress with T1D?
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Why You Might Actually Need Fewer Steps Than You Think
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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How to Walk Without Worrying About Going Low
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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How to Use Walking to Lower a Stubborn High
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Walking with Insulin On Board: What You Need to Know
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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The Best Time to Walk for Blood Sugars
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Why Walking Helps T1D (And It’s Not Just Steps)
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Welcome to April’s Challenge: One Step Closer
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Wrapping Up March & The Next Big Win for April
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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The Final Clue – What This Challenge Was REALLY About
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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The Hidden Clues – What We Didn’t Expect to Learn from Tracking
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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How Small Tracking Habits Can Lead to Big Wins
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Keeping the Momentum
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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What Worked, What Didn’t
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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How to Keep Using What We Learned (Without Tracking Forever)
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Eating Out vs. Eating at Home – How to Track Carbs in Both Situations
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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What We’ve Learned So Far – Surprising Patterns from Tracking
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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What’s REALLY Affecting Our Blood Sugar? (It’s More Than Just Food)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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How to Track Carbs Without Overthinking It
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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The “I Don’t Want to Track” Episode
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Why Keeping a T1D Log Will Change Everything (Even If You Hate Tracking)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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How to Keep Glucose Tabs on You 24/7 (Without Them Turning Into Dust)
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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What Happens When We Ride Out a Low Too Long ⏳
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Why Our Brain Fights Glucose Tabs (And How to Retrain It) 🧠
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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How Over-Treating Lows Sneaks in 20,000 Extra Calories a Year 🍩
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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The Science – Why Glucose Tabs Work Faster Than Other Snacks 🔬
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Why Glucose Tablets Are Actually a Game-Changer 🧃
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Welcome to Your Best T1D Year Ever
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Feb 13, 2025 |