Pre-bolusing can be an incredible tool, but is it the end-all-be-all? Let’s be real, life happens. We eat dinner at a restaurant and we can’t gauge when our food will be delivered. The holidays come up and dinner is at the table before you know it. You’re cooking and next thing you know it your meal is sitting right in front of you. As amazing of a tool pre-bolusing can be, it’s not always practical.

It’s no secret that the holiday season can be difficult to navigate, especially living with type one diabetes. Not only are your food choices different, but so can your environment, stress levels, sleep quality and daily routine. When living with a condition where you’re told “diabetes thrives off of routine”, this can feel.. pretty overwhelming. Inside this blog post we’re hitting you with the exact strategies we give to our Keeping it 100 clients for an interruption-free holiday.

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Planning meals with kids can be tricky and with Type 1 Diabetes we know how important meals are for blood sugar control, energy levels plus quality family time. And even though meals still need to focus around carb counting, insulin calculations, timing insulin doses and checking blood sugars, meals can still be fun as well as supportive to your child’s journey with T1D.

As a young adult woman diagnosed with type one diabetes, the only advice I received around my menstrual cycle and blood sugars was “you may see more resistance around your period”, but it wasn’t until coming off hormonal birth control about ten months ago that I really started to dive in deeper to the hormonal cycle and how it impacted my management.