You're Closer to Pre-Bolusing Than You Think | Type 1 Diabetes
A short, warm one before the start line. Neil reminds you how far you've already come. Three weeks ago, pre-bolusing was a scary thing you knew you should do and didn't. Now you've named the fear, you understand why the spike happens...
The episode, word for word
I want to tell you something before the weekend, and I want you to actually believe me. You are so much closer to this than you think.
Three weeks ago, pre-bolusing was a scary thing you knew you should do and didn't. Now? You've named the fear out loud. You know why the spike happens. You've seen the studies. You've got the safety net sitting on the table, and you've practiced grabbing it. You have already done all the hard parts. The actual doing is the easy part, and it's standing right there in front of you, holding a fork.
I'm Neil Greathouse, this is Your Best T1D Year, and today's a short, warm one, because next week we start for real and I want you walking in with your shoulders back.
Here's what I see when I look at where you are. You're not the person from Episode 216 who dosed mid-bite and quietly hated themselves for it. You're someone who knows the spike is a timing thing, not a you thing. You know the fear is normal, and you know it doesn't actually cause more lows. You know the safety net works, because you've already touched it with your own hands. That's not nothing. That's, honestly, almost everything.
And let me be straight about what starting actually looks like, because I don't want you expecting fireworks and a marching band. It's going to be quiet. Anticlimactic, even. You'll dose a few minutes before dinner one night, watch the arrow, eat, and look up two hours later, and your number will be a little flatter than usual. That's the whole event. No confetti. No parade down Broadway, the Knicks just took that one for the first time in 53 years and they're not sharing. No Eye of the Tiger montage, no slow clap, no triumphant run up the art museum steps. Just a slightly better number and a slightly calmer evening. And then you do it again. And again. And that's how it works.
It's a quiet little habit, built one boring dinner at a time, until one day you realize you've been doing it for a month and you forgot it ever scared you.
So this weekend, do one small thing. Pick the night. Look at your week, find the dinner where you'll be home, relaxed, in control of the clock, and decide, that one. That's my first one. Don't even do it yet. Just pick it. We start Monday, with a guest who's going to help us actually pull it off.
And if you've been listening from the sidelines this whole time, just sort of nodding along in the car, this is your week to climb in. Sign up at yourbestt1dyear.com, do this with us, grab the freebies. You'd be one of about 1,500 people starting this together, scattered all over the map.
You're not behind. You're not failing. You're a few days out from doing the thing you've been circling for years, and I could not possibly be prouder of how you got here.
I'm Neil. Monday, our guest, and the start line. See you then.
This is the script as read on the mic, lightly tidied for reading. Education, not medical advice. Talk to your care team before you change anything about your insulin.