Episode 005 - Your Automode Matters (and no... we're not talking about your pump)

Welcome back to Keeping it 100 Radio! Wow, 2021. What a year. We have seen so much growth in the resources we have available to the diabetes community. One advancement I'm most impressed with? The automode feature on pumps like the T-Slim and Medtronic (and hey, even the Omnipod but that isn't FDA approved yet). While I'm not on the automode myself, I've had many clients who are. But to their disappointment, it's an advancement that's overhyped in the health care system. Not because it doesn't work, but because they haven't taken the proper steps to set their foundations in place first. 

 

Inside this episode, we're going to talk about the number one flaw I see in the automode feature, how you can make the technology work for you and how you can work with it all to finally bring predictability to your blood sugars and end the frustration around dosing decisions.

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Hit the play button and let's get started!

 

Resources inside the episode: 

  1. Check out Skin Grip at skingrip.com and use the code “LISSIE” at check out! 

  2. Learn more about Keeping it 100 HERE

Show Notes: 

  1. ⏰ (0:00): INTRO

  2. ⏰ (2:05): Behind the scenes of Keeping It 100

  3. ⏰ (3:27): New technology and its flaws

  4. ⏰ (7:35): The technology is only as strong as our decision making...

  5. ⏰ (10:42): Assessing baselines should be our top priority

  6. ⏰ (13:14): Decision making process

  7. ⏰ (17:02): What emotions are driving our decisions?

  8. ⏰ (20:08): Wrap-up

YOUR HOST


Lissie Poyner

Certified Health Coach, Personal Trainer & Founder of Needles and Spoons

Integrative Diabetes Health Coach, Certified Personal Trainer, owner of Needles and Spoons Health & Wellness, and creator Keeping It 100. I help overwhelmed people with Type One Diabetes just like you gain more predictability in their blood sugars so they can finally take their life plans off hold. 

 

I was diagnosed with T1D at the age of 19, and to say that I was lost would be an understatement. In the years that followed my diagnosis, through trial, (a lot of) error, and education, I took my own A1C from a 7.1 to a consistent 5.7 and learned what it really takes to achieve predictability in my blood sugars. I also brought my Ulcerative Colitis into remission! 

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