The Mastering Diabetes Personalized Coaching Program. Is it worth it? Here is my complete and honest review after finishing the program!

A very practical article that distills everything I ate, all the insulin I injected and my decision process to manage insulin timing before and after a long run in my marathon prep.

I have been trying to optimize everything for a long time: sleep, diet, exercise, routines. Then I had a sort of enlightenment: this optimization thing has made me fragile, and it took some courage to admit that.

I am starting to think that being able to let optimization go from time to time is arguably the secret for keep the optimization process sustainable in the long-term.

Just like I can afford some high blood glucose here and there because I know that I am in range 90% of the time, I can also let go of the idea of being constantly at 100% in all other areas, is the majority of my lifestyle is solid and health promoting.

A long run, some nutrition and insulin mistakes, high blood glucose and decisions to make. What should I do? Should I feed the athlete and keep the carbohydrates coming, or heal the diabetic and sacrifice my run?

Let me share with you why journaling has been a game changer in every area of my life, type-1 diabetes management included!

Last week I was in range almost 100% of the time, this week not so much. Life is not a walk in the park so it is important to take a moment to understand why hyperglycaemia and hypoglycaemia still occur despite all our best efforts!

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!