Your Best T1D Year

When Other People Offer to “Help Us” During A Low


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Show Notes

Super Bowl Sunday is like a scientific experiment in chaos: long stretches of sitting, random grazing, adrenaline, and a snack table that basically yells your name. In this episode, we talk about what happens when a low hits in the middle of all that and why “I’ll just grab whatever’s closest” almost always ends with a 250 two hours later.​
We break down a simple three‑step game plan for game day: glucose first, snacks later on purpose, and one way to walk back to the couch without feeling like the “difficult diabetic friend.”​
You’ll hear how to separate “I’m low and need medicine” from “I want to enjoy the food at this party,” plus how to measure Super Bowl success in fewer roller‑coaster swings instead of a perfectly flat line.​


What You Can Do Today

  • Decide now what your “Super Bowl low plan” is: which glucose option you’ll use and how much you’ll take before you even look at the snack table.​

  • Put glucose where you’ll actually need it during the game, not buried in a bag across the room.​

  • Pick one win you’ll count as a success Monday morning, like “I treated every low with glucose first” or “I had fewer low‑then‑high spikes than last year.”​
    Your goal isn’t a perfect graph, it’s less chaos than last Super Bowl. That absolutely counts.

Resources

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