You've spent four days watching one variable at a time. Today, you zoom back out and watch all of them together.
Today's idea
A day with Type 1 diabetes is the product of dozens of variables interacting at once. Insulin amount. Insulin timing. Food composition. Movement. Stress. Sleep. Hormones. IOB. The site of your last injection or infusion. The temperature outside. The bottle of insulin you opened three weeks ago.
No single one of these explains a day. The combination of them does.
For most of the past 25 years of Type 1 management, this complexity has been treated as a problem — something to simplify, control, eliminate. The Pro Tips have always taken a different view: the complexity is the truth of Type 1, and the skill is in seeing the truth clearly, not in pretending it's simpler than it is.
The Pro Tip series puts it this way:
The complexity isn't a problem to be eliminated. It's the truth of Type 1. The skill is to see it clearly — not to pretend it's simpler than it is.
From Pro Tip 1009
By Day 17, you've spent the better part of three weeks practicing the seeing. Today, you let yourself see all of it at once.
The day is complex. I can see the complexity. That's the work.
Today, at the end of the day, look at your CGM line for the whole 24 hours. Don't analyze. Don't fix. Just look at the shape of the day — the rises, the valleys, the steady stretches. Try to name two or three variables that were in play.
Small Sip #1469 — Steal A1C Overnight
What was the shape of today, and what made it that shape?