Conscious Diabetic
Living with diabetes, consciously.
Type 1 since I was five. Now Registered Blind. Then I stopped pretending. This is what changed.
I am not a medical professional
I am not a doctor or a nurse. I am a person who has lived with Type 1 diabetes for many years — since I was five. What you read here is my own story and my own experience. It is not medical advice. Please seek proper advice from your own diabetes team before you change anything about your treatment.
About Brett
Who I am
- I'm Brett. I've had Type 1 diabetes since 1985.
- Poor control cost me most of my sight. Acceptance gave me my life back.
- Now I help other people do the same.
“Acceptance allows change. Change allows growth.”Read my story
Brett in numbers
19th
in the world, CrossFit Open 2022 (Adaptive Blind)
13th
in the world, CrossFit Open 2023 (Adaptive Blind)
10
podcast episodes
100 days
1 diary
40+
years living with Type 1
The book · Coming soon
The Conscious Diabetic
Working title
The diary of 100 days that changed my life. Written as it happened, day by day. The good days and the dark days.
Journey to our goal
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Exercise4 min readBack squats with a metal rod in my leg: hip mobility, old injuries and Type 1
A rod in my leg and pins in my knee and ankle wreck my hip mobility. Here's how I still back squat, the warm-up I won't skip, and why mobility is diabetes management.
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Training with Type 1 diabetes on a low-energy day: discipline over motivation
High blood sugar, no energy, CrossFit in the evening. I went anyway. Here's the session, why I train in 1 minute on, 1 minute off blocks, and the safety checks that come first.
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Deadlifting 150kg with Type 1 diabetes: what my blood sugar did
Six sets of six, building to 150kg. My glucose climbed to about 17, then came back down to 10. Here's the session, the numbers and what I take from it.
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Diabetes fact of the week
Exercise can lower blood sugar for hours.
Your muscles keep using sugar after you stop moving. That is why some people need a snack later, not just during exercise.
Source: Diabetes UK: Exercise and diabetes(opens in a new tab)
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