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Micro dose insulin sport strategy

Registered Dietitian

I rode just shy of 100 km on Sunday, and I ate more than 100 grams worth of carbs throughout the ride! This week’s micro dose insulin sport strategy was slightly altered, and for the most part my body responded well. However, there was a slight dosing snafu that I did not realize until the very end, and had I realized it earlier – way earlier – my T1D management may have been a lot easier. Quantifying the carbs I estimate that I probably ate 120-125 grams of carbs total, including the bakery stop blueberry scone I shared with my husband at about 3 hours into the ride. Some in the type-1 diabetes community might look at those carb counts and gasp. No doubt about it, it is a lot of carbs. But let’s look at the sport side for a moment. My moving time – the time that my […]

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Tandem in sport – the trials continue

Diabetes, Diabetes Dietitian, Exercise and diabetes, Registered Dietitian

The New Year has come and gone, and I’ve still got the Tandem t:slim X2 plugged in to my body. Today’s post is all about Tandem in sport. How does it fare? Within days of starting my Tandem Trials, I was ready to give this sucker the ultimate challenge: a ride on my bike. Now, because I am very much a fair weather cyclist, we did not go for a ride outside. Instead, we did an intense 60-minute Peloton bike ride. And we’ve continued to do many more Pelotons, as well as walks and weights. Here are my Peloton-Tandem reflections. Tandem in sport strategy My rides typically occur in the morning, after breakfast, or in the afternoon, after work. Both options require different strategies. The breakfast strategy: With the help of my super supportive Tandem ally, I created a sport-specific profile to use when I’m planning a ride around the

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Tandem trial part 2 – the struggles

Diabetes, Diabetes Dietitian, Registered Dietitian

Welcome to part 2 of my Tandem t:slim X2 trial experience. Although the Tandem t:slim X2 automated insulin delivery (AID) pump showed great strengths right away, there were still some struggles. Honestly, the struggles were a bit hard for me to accept at first. After reading the research and going to the American Diabetes Association Conference last spring, and hearing all the positives about these AID systems, no matter how dubious I was going in, I really wanted this pump to be the “magic” tool  to reduce all diabetes burnout and micromanaging. Based on my experience over the last couple of months, though, it’s not the be all end all magic device – yet. Am I surprised? No. We have to recognize that insulin pumps, including the AID ones, are not pancreases. They have incredible features that keep getting better and better, but they’re still a hybrid, and hybrids don’t have

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Diabetes Awareness Month – let’s advocate

Diabetes, Diabetes Dietitian, Pregnancy in Diabetes, Registered Dietitian

Today is December 1st, which means we’ve just left the month of November – Diabetes Awareness Month. This post is a reflection on this year’s Diabetes Awareness Month, and the role that I – as a person with T1D, and as a person working in T1D – played in it. Diabetes Awareness Month: the preamble Two days before our diabetes month began, I shared a short story to a large group of T1D researchers and influencers on a day in the life of T1D – my T1D. I am a member of the Breakthrough T1D Lived Experience Advisory Group. And this presentation was part of the Breakthrough T1D Centre of Excellence annual meeting. For my part, I talked about how diabetes tech is amazing, super amazing … until it isn’t. This was the story of the day both my insulin pumps spontaneously combusted (okay, maybe it wasn’t quite that extreme,

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Activity for a T1D travel pivot

Diabetes Dietitian, Exercise and diabetes, Registered Dietitian

Sometimes, even the most seasoned T1D traveler just doesn’t have the energy to plan it all out. This weekend in Victoria, I ditched my usual diabetes travel prep – and proved that letting go (and moving a little more) can still work out just fine.

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