Three weeks ago, you started looking. Today is the last day of the structured practice. Tomorrow's Day 22 is about acting on what you've built.
Today's idea
You've spent 21 days noticing. The noticing was the work. The noticing is the work. There is no "after the noticing" — the noticing is what fluent people with Type 1 do for the rest of their lives. The intensity might fade, but the practice of looking at your own data with curiosity instead of dread, of naming variables instead of being mystified by them, of treating each day as a science experiment instead of a test — that doesn't end.
What does end is the structured program. From tomorrow, the practice is yours to keep at whatever pace fits your life. Some people keep doing one daily observation forever. Some let it become so automatic they forget they ever needed to schedule it. Some come back to the structured version every year or two for a refresher. There's no right answer.
The Pro Tip series puts it this way:
With enough understanding, diabetes stops happening to you and becomes something you participate in. That's the entire shift. The rest is maintenance.
From Pro Tip 1025
You now have enough information. The understanding has been building for three weeks. Tomorrow, you'll take it somewhere.
The noticing was the work. The noticing is the work. The noticing continues.
Today, look back at all 21 days. Don't reread them. Just look at the arc. Notice that you got from there to here.
Small Sip #1484 — Wake Up Hopeful
What's the one thing I want to remember from these three weeks, when the structured program is no longer in front of me?