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3 Ways to Beat Post-Meal Spikes without Pre-bolusing

January 13, 2023

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.

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Three Signs You Need to Reassess Your Baselines

Your baselines are the backbone of your blood sugar management. If your basal rates, carb ratios, and correction factors aren’t fine tuned – any pre-bolus or nutrition strategy you try to implement just won’t matter.

Three Signs You Need to Reassess Your Baselines

December 30, 2022

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3 Strategies You Need For A Blood Sugar Friendly Holiday Season

3 Strategies You Need for a Blood Sugar Friendly Holiday Season

December 16, 2022

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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Four Questions I Ask When Looking At My Blood Sugar Reports

If you’re only looking at your blood sugar reports when you’re with your endocrinologist, there’s a good chance you’re missing on a huge opportunity to breakdown patterns, trends, and behaviors that are hurting your all around blood sugars.

Four Questions I Ask When Looking at My Dexcom Clarity Reports (And Why)

December 2, 2022

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My Favorite T1D Products to Grab for Black Friday Weekend

November 23, 2022

*Disclosure: I only recommend products I would use myself and all opinions expressed here are our own. This post may contain affiliate links that at no additional cost to you, I may earn a small commission.  Temp Drop: Save $30+ The Temp Drop is my favorite tool to track my cycle. Overnight, it automatically tracks my […]

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The Most Supportive Things My Parents Did to Help me as a T1D Kid

Being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of 9, I could hardly wrap my head around this chronic illness, let alone even knowing what it meant or what changes I would be making on a daily basis to my life as a kid. 

The Most Supportive Thing my Parents Did to Help Me as a TID Kid: Written by Coach Briana

November 18, 2022

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Six Simple Hacks to Blood Sugar Friendly Meals for Kids with Type One Diabetes

Six Simple Hacks to Blood Sugar Friendly Meals for Kids with Type One Diabetes

November 4, 2022

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.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Your Blood Sugar

We hear it all of the time.. “You attract the energy you put out into the world. Just think positive.”. The person who came up with that saying never lived with type one diabetes…

3 Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Your Blood Sugar (Without the “Just Think Positive” Mindset)

October 21, 2022

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How I Use BBT to Predict Insulin Sensitivity Shifts

How I Use BBT to Predict Insulin Sensitivity Shifts

October 14, 2022

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.

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Meet the PFF Method

The PFF method is our secret weapon to mitigating post-meal blood sugar spikes, matching insulin timing and staying satiated throughout the day. Never heard of the PFF method? No worries. We’ve got you covered inside today’s blog post. 

Meet The PFF Method: Your Guide to Balanced Post Meal Blood Sugars

October 7, 2022

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