In this article, I cover how whole plant based foods, sleep, movement and good habits such as logging my food and my insulin intake helped me get to 100% time in range.

180. That is the average amount of additional daily decisions a person living twit type-1 diabetic has to do.

These can be mentally taxing, because they impact every area of our life: our mood, our relationships, our productivity and health.

How do I deal with their mental load? How do I stick to the process and preserve my mental health?

In this article I look back at some older articles and reflect on my 2023. It has been the most transformative year of my life and it has made me a better diabetic, runner and person.

I am so happy I have some written reports of this journey!

Let me unpack all the lessons I’ve learned preparing for and running my first marathon with type-1 diabetes. Some of the topics I cover:

• How to carb load without screwing up blood glucose?

• How much insulin to take?

• How to fuel during the race?

• How to avoid hypoglycaemia?

…and much more!

I have just finished my first marathon with type-1 diabetes!

Why do we keep repeating the same mistakes even when we know the right thing to do? And how can. we get out of this?

Long term health requires discipline, and there are clear, daily choices to be made. There’s a clear, right path to walk.

Today’s society doesn’t really understand these choices anymore: why do you need to sleep that much? Why do you walk, and not simply take a car? Why do you not come with us at the restaurant, instead of eating your boring potato salad?

A healthy lifestyle is strict, by today’s standards. It is also the only lifestyle that maximises your odds of a longer lifespan and health span, especially with type-1 diabetes. Let me share my thoughts about this.

There were a few lessons to be learned on that half marathon. The cold, the logistics, the emotions and the pacing were all new factors to me, and they all contributed to some abnormal race blood glucose. No worries, I took my notes and will refine my strategies for the next one. I hope my experience can help you too! 🏃🏻‍♂️💨

Lessons learned from a week with high fever and type 1 diabetes.

In this post I share the “101” nutrition tips I have discussed with my physician to smoothly navigate my runs, long and short, with type-1 diabetes. Have a dip, and let me know how you do it!