Guides

How to improve your Time in Range

Time in Range is the number that describes your day-to-day life with diabetes. Here are 10 realistic ways to raise it — written by a type 1, without the lecture.

12 min read · updated 2026-08-20

Why your blood sugar spikes after eating

Post-meal spikes are a timing race between food and insulin. Here are the seven reasons meals spike you — and what each pattern looks like on a CGM curve.

10 min read · updated 2026-08-20

Carb counting for type 1 diabetes

Everything that actually matters about counting carbs with T1D — labels, portions, net carbs, restaurant reality, and why meal memory beats math.

11 min read · updated 2026-08-20

How to count carbs at a restaurant

Restaurant meals are the hardest carb counts in the game: double portions, hidden sugar, fat delays. Here is the playbook, from chains to date night.

9 min read · updated 2026-08-20

Finding your diabetes community online

Diabetes is a lonely condition that does not have to be a lonely life. Where the online T1D community actually lives, what it is good for, and the one safety rule.

8 min read · updated 2026-08-20