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Back then I exercised constantly and ate exactly what my doctor and the fitness magazines told me to, and I kept gaining anyway.

It took me years to see that my effort was never the problem, the size of what I was putting on my plate was.

So a little over ten years ago I cut the carb load way down.

Almost immediately my blood sugar normalized, and I ended up needing 43% less insulin.

The reason is pretty simple.

Big carb meals need big doses, and every big dose carries a big error that no pump can fully catch.

Lower the load and the doses shrink, the errors shrink, and the line on your CGM flattens out.

I call it the Low-Load Method, smaller inputs, smaller mistakes.

It's kept my A1c around 5.5% for more than ten years, and my own case is in the scientific literature now.

That heavy kid went on to get a PhD, work with NASA and co-write the first international guidelines on carb reduction in type 1.

And none of this means going behind your doctor's back, because everything I teach is built to work alongside your care team.

So, think about what the standard advice actually asks you to do.

A big carb meal needs a big dose of insulin, and every big dose comes with a big margin of error.

Being a little off on a small dose barely shows up on your CGM.

Being a little off on a huge dose is a spike or a crash two hours later.

No pump and no algorithm can fully catch that, because the error comes from the size of the meal.

And we know that years of those swings add up, for your eyes, your kidneys and your heart.

It was never your discipline, your pump settings or your endo, it was the size of the inputs.

That's why I teach the opposite of count and cover, and I call it the Low-Load Method.

Smaller inputs mean smaller doses, and smaller doses mean smaller mistakes.

Less insulin also means less of what I call double diabetes, which is type 1 with insulin resistance stacked on top.

It's how I've kept my A1c around 5.5% for more than ten years, and my last 30 days came in at 98% time in range.

I'm a research scientist with over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and I co-wrote the first international guidelines on carb reduction in type 1.

And this isn't about going rogue on your doctor, it's built to run alongside your care team.

Over my last 30 days I was in range 98% of the time, and over the last seven days it was 100%.

Even in the tight range, 70 to 140, I was at 86%.

I'm showing you this because my graph didn't always look like this, and I know what most type 1 graphs look like.

What changed it was one thing, I lowered the load.

Big carb meals need big doses, big doses carry big errors that no pump can fully catch, so I made the inputs smaller.

I call it the Low-Load Method, and almost immediately my blood sugar normalized and my insulin dropped by 43%.

And it's not only me.

One viewer under my TEDx talk wrote that they were 53% on target, and just 45 days later they were at 91%.

I've spent my career on this, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and I co-wrote the first international guidelines on carb reduction in type 1.

You won't change a single dose without your care team, and I'll show you exactly how to bring this to them.

So, we know that protein and fat raise blood sugar too, they just do it slowly, hours after you eat.

Standard carb counting doesn't account for that, because it only counts carbs.

That's why people cut carbs, keep dosing exactly like they did before, watch their number climb late at night, and decide low-carb doesn't work for them.

The diet was never the problem, the timing of the dose was.

Dose for protein and fat at the right time, worked out with your care team, and those late climbs stop.

Put that on top of a Low-Load plate, where smaller inputs mean smaller doses and smaller mistakes, and the whole day gets flatter, not just dinner.

It's the same approach I've used to keep my A1c around 5.5% for more than ten years.

I study this for a living, I've lived with type 1 for nearly two decades, and I co-wrote the first international guidelines on carb reduction in type 1.

Exercise makes your muscles pull in glucose faster and makes insulin hit harder.

So whatever insulin is still working when you start the session is the insulin that drops you.

Eat a big carb meal before the gym, take a big dose to cover it, and you walk in carrying a lot of insulin.

The usual fix is more sugar, which sets up the next spike, the next correction and the next low.

Lower the load before you train and you carry far less insulin into the session, so there's far less that can go wrong.

Smaller inputs, smaller mistakes, and that holds in the gym too.

It's the core of the pre-workout protocol I teach, built from my work with elite athletes and scaled to a normal week.

I've spent years in sports science working with NHL players and special forces, and I've lived with type 1 since I was 16.

Over my last 30 days my own CGM had me in range 98% of the time.

You don't have to train less to stay safe, you plan the session with your care team and then you train hard.