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You shouldn't have to fear your own numbers.
🩸 A1C under 6.0 for 7 yrs — injections & pump
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Insulin does not make you fat. And the fear that it does is quietly costing people their health.A lot of T1Ds believe in...
29/08/2026

Insulin does not make you fat. And the fear that it does is quietly costing people their health.

A lot of T1Ds believe insulin is why they gain weight. Some even take less of it to stay thin. So here is what should end that myth.

Every person without diabetes makes insulin. All day, every meal, their whole life. If insulin made you gain weight, every human on earth would.

Insulin is not a fat hormone. It is the key that lets your body use the food you eat. Without it, your body starves and sugar pours out of you. That is not health, that is your body breaking down. So when the scale moves after starting insulin, that is often your body recovering what it was losing.

And weight comes from the same place it does for everyone. Calories in versus calories out. Insulin is not a loophole around that.

So insulin is not the enemy. Taking less to stay thin does not make you healthier, it makes you sick. Keeping your blood sugar in a good range is what protects your health. That is the real goal.

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Martin Santise - T1D Coach

28/08/2026

The most important number in your diabetes is not your A1c. It is your time in range.

A1c is just an average, and averages hide everything. Two people can have the same A1c while one is steady and calm and the other is bouncing high to low all day, feeling awful. Same number. Completely different lives.

Time in range shows what the average cannot. How much of your day you actually spent feeling good and in a safe spot.

So if you want to feel better, you do not chase a lower A1c. You raise your time in range. You get steadier. And when you get steadier, the A1c comes down on its own.

If you are struggling to feel safe in your own body, if the highs and lows have you on edge and you are tired of guessing, let me help.

Click the link in my bio and we will read your data together. Just you and me, looking at what your numbers are actually doing and where your time in range is slipping, so you can start feeling steady again.

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The insulin you inject does not work where it lands. It takes a whole journey first, and nobody ever draws it out for yo...
26/08/2026

The insulin you inject does not work where it lands. It takes a whole journey first, and nobody ever draws it out for you.

It pools under your skin. Breaks apart from clusters into singles. Crosses into your blood. Then works, then slowly clears. Every step adds time, and warmth, cold, your site, and depth all change how fast it moves.

That is why the same dose hits early one day and late the next. You were never dosing wrong. You were fighting a trip you could not see.

Swipe through, I drew the whole thing out.

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Martin Santise - T1D Coach

25/08/2026

When I was first diagnosed, I was confused. I was told I could eat whatever I wanted, I just had to follow the formula. Count the carbs, take the matching units of insulin. Simple.

I did exactly as I was told. I measured everything to the T. And I still had extreme highs and lows.

I felt like a failure. Like I was just bad at this. And on top of that, I developed such a fear of insulin that eating started giving me panic attacks. I know that might sound dramatic, but it is true. I was scared to eat, because I never knew what to expect.

Then I learned something that changed everything.

Less carbs meant less insulin, which meant less room for error. I focused on lower carb, higher protein meals, and for the first time, I felt peace when I ate.

Then I went deeper and learned about the glycemic index. How some foods spike your blood sugar much faster than others. And that is when it clicked. I was never the problem. The “eat whatever you want and just dose for it” advice was the problem.

Now, I am not saying never eat carbs again. If you follow me, you see me eat carby meals with no restrictions. But I truly believe that is only possible because I built a strong foundation first. I made it simple, then I started adding the more complex meals back in.

If you are struggling with constant fluctuations and you want to make T1D management genuinely simple, I put together a 55 page nutrition guide that breaks this all down. It includes a meal list and a shopping list, but most importantly, it gives you the insight to make managing food simple.

Comment NUTRITION and I will send it to you.

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If you are insulin resistant, this is the part nobody actually explains. what is physically blocking your insulin from w...
24/08/2026

If you are insulin resistant, this is the part nobody actually explains. what is physically blocking your insulin from working.

here is how it is supposed to work. insulin knocks on your cell and sends a message inside. open the doors, let the sugar in. when that message travels cleanly, your sugar comes down. resistance is that message getting blocked. two things block it.

the first is fat inside the cell. when fat builds up inside your muscle and liver cells, it does not just sit there. it creates byproducts that jam the insulin signal directly. one blocks the receptor, one shuts down a step further down the line. picture the message traveling down a hallway inside the cell, and fat as clutter piling up in it. the more fat inside, the less of the message gets through.

the second is inflammation, and it works differently. it scrambles the insulin relay, flipping the wrong switches so the message gets garbled on the way. if fat is clutter in the hallway, inflammation is a cut wire. the knock still happens, but the message never arrives.

so this is what resistance actually is. not weak insulin. not you failing. fat clogging the path and inflammation cutting the wire, so the message cannot get through.

and this is why the same things keep mattering. the more you lower the fat inside the cell and calm the inflammation, the clearer that message gets, and the better your own insulin works again.

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Why does the exact same dose work one morning and wreck you the next?It is not you. One unit of insulin does not do the ...
20/08/2026

Why does the exact same dose work one morning and wreck you the next?

It is not you. One unit of insulin does not do the same thing all day. You are most resistant in the morning and most sensitive at night, and stress, sleep, and illness move it even more.

Your correction factor was never a fixed number. It is a moving target.

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Martin Santise - T1D Coach

19/08/2026

High time in range is not about giving things up. It is about understanding your body well enough that you do not have to.

That is the whole difference. Awareness, not restriction.

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T1Ds, have you noticed some of your lows scream at you, and others barely warn you at all? That is not random, and it is...
19/08/2026

T1Ds, have you noticed some of your lows scream at you, and others barely warn you at all? That is not random, and it is not in your head. There is a real reason.

Here is what's actually happening when you drop.

Your brain runs almost entirely on glucose. It can't make its own and it can't store much, so it needs a constant supply. The second that supply falls, your brain is the first thing to feel it.

But a low doesn't create one set of symptoms. It creates two, from two different causes.

The first is the alarm. Shaking, racing heart, sweating, anxiety, sudden hunger. That's not your brain starving yet. That's adrenaline, your body catching the drop and screaming at you to eat. It's the warning. And the warning is a good thing.

The second is the starve. Confusion, can't focus, slurred words, weakness, the fog. That's not adrenaline. That's your brain itself running out of fuel. That's the one that gets dangerous.

And these really are two separate systems. In one study, researchers blocked the body's alarm response during a low. The shaking went away. The confusion did not.

Here's why the order matters. The alarm is supposed to come first, early enough to catch it before your brain is affected. But with frequent lows, your body can stop sounding the alarm, and you skip straight to the fog with no warning. That's not you being careless. That's a warning system going quiet.

So the shaking you hate? It's actually your best friend. It's the early warning. The goal was never to feel nothing. It was to still be able to feel the alarm.

Here's my question: do your lows still warn you the way they used to, or has that changed over the years?

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