For long-time T1Ds

You've done the hard years. Let's make the next ones lighter.

After a decade or two, nobody needs to explain carb ratios to you. What wears you down is the sheer accumulation: every meal a calculation, every night a maybe. The wins at this stage come from shaving effort, not adding knowledge.

Here you'll find refreshers on tech that's changed since you last looked, honest talk about burnout, and small process tweaks that give minutes back every day.

What's here for you

Burnout is real: ways to lighten the load without letting go
What's changed in CGMs, pumps, and pens if you stopped tracking the news
Prebolus timing, revisited with fresh evidence
Exercise guides that respect what you already know

The burnout guide

Two guides that assume the years. One names burnout's real shape, the checking less and the silenced alarms, and makes the case for shrinking the routine on purpose instead of quitting it. The other catches you up on the Mobi and G7 in real life: pairing in brief, then the alert tuning and dropout fixes the manuals skip.

Read the burnout guide The tech refresher

Guides for this mode

All guides

T1D veteranNewly diagnosed

Alcohol and T1D: the deep dive

Why alcohol causes delayed lows, what your liver is actually doing, drink-by-drink glucose behavior, the overnight plan, and the CGM alarm problem nobody warns you about.

6 min read

AthleteTeenT1D veteran

Cardio drops you, lifting spikes you: the why

Different kinds of exercise push glucose in different directions. The physiology explains a lot of confusing CGM graphs.

3 min read

AthleteT1D veteran

Cutting without crashing: eating below maintenance with T1D

The live question in every T1D lifting thread: how do you build or keep muscle in a calorie deficit when every low costs you the carbs you were trying not to eat? The shape of the problem, what competitors with T1D actually do, and the questions to take to your care team.

10 min read

T1D veteranParentTeen

Diabetes burnout is real, and it isn't a character flaw

The exhaustion of a disease with no days off, what it looks like, and what actually helps.

4 min read

AthleteT1D veteran

Fasted training: what the morning actually does to you

Fasted morning workouts are being sold as a cheat code for type 1. The evidence says something more useful: morning sessions are more predictable, not magic, and predictable is the whole game. What the hormones do, why lifting and cardio go opposite ways before breakfast, and what fasted even means when your basal never stops.

8 min read

T1D veteranAthlete

Fasting with T1D: Ramadan, intermittent, and everything between

What research says about fasting safely with type 1, why CGMs and closed loops changed the answer, and how to plan a fast with your care team instead of around them.

5 min read

AthleteTravelerT1D veteran

Heat, hydration and the sensor: training in summer

Heat speeds up insulin, dehydration changes what a CGM can see, and a sensor under load reads differently from a sensor at rest. When to trust the number during a hot session, when to distrust it, and why a fingerstick settles arguments.

7 min read

TravelerT1D veteran

Hot tubs, saunas, and heat with pumps and CGMs

Heat changes how insulin, pumps, sensors, and adhesive behave. The disconnect rules, what temperature does to your devices, and how to soak without sacrificing gear.

4 min read

AthleteT1D veteran

Insulin, carbs, and muscle: the science

What insulin actually does for muscle, why running high works against you, where the anabolic window went, and the honest truth about insulin misuse in gyms.

8 min read

Newly diagnosedT1D veteranAthleteTeen

Prebolusing: why timing beats math

Rapid insulin isn't rapid. Understanding the gap between injection and action is one of the highest-leverage ideas in T1D.

3 min read

Newly diagnosedT1D veteranAthleteTravelerParentTeen

Sick days: the plan you make while you're healthy

Why a cold pushes glucose up and a stomach bug pushes it down, what ketones are telling you, and when home care stops being enough.

8 min read

AthleteT1D veteranTeenParent

Sleep, recovery and the next day's insulin

One short night measurably reduces how well insulin works the next day, in people with type 1 specifically. Why the 3 a.m. alarm night and the following day's stubborn highs are the same story, what that means for training, and why your sleep belongs in the appointment alongside your glucose.

7 min read

AthleteT1D veteran

Steroids, SARMs, and peptides with T1D: what's documented

No hype, no lecture. What research and community reports say these compounds do to glucose, what nobody knows yet, the legal reality, and what to watch.

5 min read

AthleteTeenT1D veteran

Supplements and pre-workout with T1D: what is known, which is not much

Creatine, caffeine, beta-alanine, the stimulant pre-workouts, and the protein tub. What the research actually shows for type 1, where the type 2 findings do not transfer, and why the first few sessions on anything new are sessions to watch the sensor.

7 min read

Newly diagnosedT1D veteranParent

Tandem Mobi + Dexcom G7: setup and real life

Pairing the Mobi with the G7, the 15 Day sensor question, taming overnight alerts, fixing connection dropouts, and what the community wishes it knew sooner.

5 min read

T1D veteranTeen

Tattoos with T1D: what actually matters

Yes, you can get tattooed. Prep, placement around devices, long-session glucose drops, aftercare, and the honest truth about medical alert tattoos.

5 min read

TravelerT1D veteran

Time zones and T1D: the concepts

Why crossing time zones matters for insulin, what changes for pumps versus injections, and how to plan the shift with your care team.

4 min read

AthleteTeenT1D veteran

Training around lows: the fear, and the hours after

Fear of going low is the number one reason people with T1D train less than they want to, and the delayed low after exercise is the thing nobody explains. The mechanism, the timing, what the people who train every day actually do, and what to take to your care team.

9 min read

Newly diagnosedT1D veteranParent

Type 2 remission: what the trials showed, and what the word does not mean

Remission is real, measured, and not a cure. What DiRECT and the NHS programme found, who it tends to work for, why it does not apply to Type 1 at all, and how to read the headlines without being sold something.

11 min read

Newly diagnosedT1D veteranAthleteTravelerParentTeen

When insulin costs more than you have

The emergency option most people do not know exists, the $35 programs, and where to start looking. Links to the programs themselves, because only they can tell you what you qualify for.

4 min read

The app is out

Version one is on the App Store: prebolus nudges, carbs off a barcode, and your CGM history read from Apple Health. iPhone only, no account, free, and it never tells you how much insulin to take.

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