My Method

99.2% Time in Range. An A1c of 5.7%. A Standard Deviation of 23.2%. These are values typical of a non-diabetic person: I have reached them after five years of studies and analysis on my disease and on how even the most minuscle thing can affect blood glucose. 

Summarising all my strategies for many different situations in a single article would be impossible and not exhaustive, so throughout this one I will only provide a general overview on the main characteristics of my method. 

My strategy can be effectively condensated into a single word: focus. The key factor to achieve that numbers is to constantly have diabetes management into a corner of your brain: only in this way you will be able to effectively treat your disease even in the most unfamiliar situations. While at the beginning of your therapeutical journey this could seem overwhelming and unbearable, it will become day by day less laborious and most satisfying thanks to the experience you will gain. This process will be extremely easened with the support of a CGM.

Furthermore, alimentation is something you really have to focus on: you won't have to say no to any kind of food, but you will need to acquire the capacity of being able not to exceed with anything. A balanced diet is the base for the well-being of every healthy individuals, and we absolutely want to be part of them. The only thing which sometimes has to change for us is the percentage of carbs, which in highly calorific diets could become unmanageable if mantained in the standards. Last but not least, a precise partition of your calories into the main different meals will be necessary, as explained in this dedicated article.

Another extremely important factor for diabetes management is your lifestyle. Sport is fundamental and extremely helpful in mataining stable and in-range blood glucose levels both in the short and in the long term: a combination of both aerobic and anaerobic exercise is optimal for us. In addition to this, we absolutely need to avoid unnecessary and damaging habits such as smoking and binge drinking: behaviours like these are extremely harmful even for non-diabetics, and the power of their negative effects on us exponentially grows due to our disease.

Hoping to have provided an exhaustive overview on the main characteristics of my method, I am currently working to build a detailed guide on each of the subtleties which I have mentioned, and many more, in this section and in others too. To know more about them, just keep visiting my website!