Your Best T1D Year

Neil Greathouse
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Managing Type 1 Diabetes doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Each 5-minute episode of Your Best T1D Year is packed with practical strategies, mindset shifts, and a little humor to help you feel more in control and less frustrated by diabetes. Hosted by Neil Greathouse, this Monday, Wednesday, and Friday podcast delivers quick, relatable episodes that make learning about T1D effortless - so you can build small wins that lead to big changes. 📅 New episodes drop every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. 🎧 Subscribe now and start making diabetes management feel easier - one small habit at a time.

  1. 10h ago

    The Community Check-In

    No studies today. Week seven is the community check-in, and Neil reads real stories from the challenge: the 61-year-old doing sit-to-stands during Wheel of Fortune whose post-supper numbers are the best they've been in years, the night-shift nurse walking a 2am hospital parking garage with a fellow T1D she met through the show, the football fan logging 11,000 living-room steps during a loss, and the honest one, the listener who missed two weeks, almost quit, and came back. Miss, shrug, resume. Then the ask: the before-and-after wall goes up at the finale, and it's built from your numbers. Week-one you versus now-you. Steps, longest sit, or just a sentence about what changed. In this episode: Real community wins, from dramatic improvements to tiny-but-mighty onesWhy the desk worker who went 3,100 to 5,200 steps beats any fitness influencer storyThe honest struggle story, and why it matters more than the highlight reelHow to get on the finale wall this weekYour challenge: keep the anchor habits running, and send your before-and-after to the newsletter or to Neil on Instagram at thebetes. Helpful resources and newsletter: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Connect with Neil: TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@the.betes Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebetes Facebook: https://facebook.com/neilgreathouse LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neil-greathouse-a607b912 Website: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Books on Amazon: Type 1 Diabetes – One Day at a Time: https://a.co/d/6UHooWJ Type 1 Diabetes – True Stories: https://a.co/d/dfIlyI1

  2. 3d ago

    Move for Your Head, Not Just Your Numbers

    Six weeks of below-the-neck science, and now the part a CGM can't graph. Type 1 diabetes carries a mental load the pamphlets undersell: four hundred decisions a day, alarms, math, the low that hijacks an afternoon. The research on movement and mood is deep and consistent: regular light movement measurably helps with stress, anxiety, and low mood. Not a replacement for real mental health care, and Neil says so clearly, but a free, immediate daily pressure valve. And for us specifically, the evening walk offers something rarer: the only fifteen minutes of the day when the relationship with your body isn't a negotiation through sticky notes on a CGM. No alarms. Same team. Some days, that's the whole point. In this episode: What the research says about movement, stress, and moodThe walk as a pattern interrupt for shame spirals and doomscrollsDiabetes distress, burnout, and why the head is part of the A1CWhen movement helps your mental load, and when it's time for more supportYour challenge: take one walk purely for your head this week. Don't even check the CGM after. Just notice how you re-enter the house. Helpful resources and newsletter: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Connect with Neil: TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@the.betes Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebetes Facebook: https://facebook.com/neilgreathouse LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neil-greathouse-a607b912 Website: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Books on Amazon: Type 1 Diabetes – One Day at a Time: https://a.co/d/6UHooWJ Type 1 Diabetes – True Stories: https://a.co/d/dfIlyI1

  3. 4d ago

    Why You Go Low When You Exercise With Type 1 (Part 2) // Ginger Vieira, Diabetes Nerd

    The conversation with Ginger Vieira and Tara Mayo was going so well we didn't stop. This is the next half hour, and it might be the most practical thing we've ever put on this show. No games this time, no Fastest Five, no Confession Booth. If you want those, go back to the October 12th episode. It starts with a study that stopped Neil cold. In 2008, researchers at the Université de Montréal asked 100 adults with type 1 what keeps them from exercising. Number one answer: fear of going low. Only 52 of them understood how their insulin actually works over time, and the people with the most fear had the hardest time with their numbers. Ginger explains why the fear and that knowledge gap are connected, Tara talks to every parent, partner, and friend about keeping their fear from becoming somebody else's reason to stay on the couch, and Ginger walks through exactly what she checks before she moves. In this episode: Ginger's self-talk for the moment you're standing at the door, scaredTara on why the fear sometimes belongs to the person who loves you, and what to do with itWhy going low on almost every workout usually points to too much insulin, not too much exerciseHow starting to move every day can change your insulin needs quickly, and why that's a conversation to have with your care team sooner rather than at your next appointmentActivity mode on a pump: why setting it 30 to 60 minutes ahead mattersThe fourth predictor of exercise lows Ginger added to Neil's checklist: time of dayWhat to write down, and how many workouts it takes to see a patternWhy Ginger carries dextrose and only dextroseThe Ironman story that shows how strange the body gets under extreme stressOne first step this week if you've been scared to move for yearsThis Week's Challenge: Take one 15-minute walk about five hours after breakfast, when you've got the least insulin on board, with fast-acting glucose in your pocket. Watch your line during and after, and write it down. If you drop, that's information, not failure. Take it to your care team and ask whether your settings fit the more active you. Missed Part 1? Go back to the October 12th episode for the myths, the Arnold voice, the Confession Booth, and Neil's Fastest Five. Connect with Ginger and Tara: Diabetes Nerd: https://diabetesnerd.com Diabetes Nerd Network: https://diabetesnerdnetwork.com Diabetes Nerd Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diabetes-nerd/id1807755678 Ginger on Instagram: https://instagram.com/gingervieira.t1d Diabetes Nerd on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@diabetesnerd Tara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taramayo/ Their new book, Every Day with Diabetes: https://a.co/d/0a6NQuXJ Helpful resources and newsletter: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Connect with Neil: TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@the.betes Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebetes Facebook: https://facebook.com/neilgreathouse LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neil-greathouse-a607b912 Website: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Books on Amazon: Type 1 Diabetes – One Day at a Time: https://a.co/d/6UHooWJ Type 1 Diabetes – True Stories: https://a.co/d/dfIlyI1

  4. 5d ago

    Consistency, Not Streaks

    Neil is a streak guy, which is exactly why he's qualified to tell you streaks are a trap. One missed night, and your brain declares the whole habit dead, files it next to your grieving Duolingo owl, and quits. That's a terrible system, and the research agrees. The most-cited habit study out there (Lally, 2010, European Journal of Social Psychology) found it takes about 66 days on average for a behavior to feel automatic, with a huge normal range, and, the finding worth tattooing somewhere: missing a single day made no meaningful difference to habit formation. None. The skill isn't never-missing. It's the boring restart. Miss, shrug, resume. In this episode: The 66-day truth about how long habits actually takeThe data on missed days: one skip changes nothingWhy the streak mindset backfires, especially with a chronic conditionThe restart as a practiced skill, not a character testYour challenge: practice the restart. If you miss a day this week, your only job is to be back at the very next opportunity and notice that nothing was lost. Helpful resources and newsletter: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Connect with Neil: TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@the.betes Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebetes Facebook: https://facebook.com/neilgreathouse LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neil-greathouse-a607b912 Website: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Books on Amazon: Type 1 Diabetes – One Day at a Time: https://a.co/d/6UHooWJ Type 1 Diabetes – True Stories: https://a.co/d/dfIlyI1

  5. Oct 12

    Exercise With Type 1 Diabetes Without the Fear of Lows // Ginger Vieira + Tara Mayo (Diabetes Nerd)

    Who's scared to exercise with type 1? If your hand went up, this one's for you. Ginger Vieira set more than a dozen powerlifting records with type 1 diabetes, wrote the book Exercise with Type 1 Diabetes, and hosts the Diabetes Nerd podcast. She was one of the very first guests on this show, and she came back anyway. This time she brought her business partner, Tara Mayo, a personal trainer, yoga teacher, and trail runner who's been estimating Ginger's insulin doses for years... and nailing them. They met 20 years ago in a gym, when Ginger's endocrinologist laughed at her for asking how to manage type 1 during powerlifting training. So they figured it out together. Today they take apart the exercise myths most of us were handed at diagnosis: why a sprint or a heavy lift can send your blood sugar up, why you might not need to eat before every workout, and why a 15-minute walk absolutely counts. Plus the Arnold Schwarzenegger voice, a double Diabetes Confession Booth, and, for the first time ever, Neil in the Fastest Five hot seat. In this episode: How Ginger reads new diabetes research before getting excited about it (and why studies quietly cut the outliers)Myth 1: exercise always brings blood sugar down. Why anaerobic work like sprints, spin, and CrossFit can spike you, and why that means your body is working normallyMyth 2: you have to eat before every workout. How to set up a simple fasted experiment, and who fasted workouts are NOT for (teens, pregnancy, anyone starting high)Myth 3: it has to be a real workout to count. Why 10 to 15 minutes still mattersMyth 4: exercise is how you pay for food. Moving for your metabolism instead of as punishmentThe one piece of exercise advice they'd delete foreverTrue or False, a two-person Diabetes Confession Booth, and the Fastest Five Minutes, reverse edition (the official count got lost somewhere around Predator)This Week's Challenge: Run one small experiment. Same workout, same time of day, same lunch beforehand, three times. Write down your number before, during, and after. Ginger says three tries is usually enough to see a pattern. Bring what you find to your care team before you change anything. Part 2 drops this week. Ginger stuck around to go deep on the fear of going low, basal insulin, activity mode, and the very first step if you've been scared to move for years. Connect with Ginger and Tara: Diabetes Nerd: https://diabetesnerd.com Diabetes Nerd Network: https://diabetesnerdnetwork.com Diabetes Nerd Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diabetes-nerd/id1807755678 Ginger on Instagram: https://instagram.com/gingervieira.t1d Diabetes Nerd on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@diabetesnerd Tara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taramayo/ Their new book, Every Day with Diabetes: https://a.co/d/09GHKnhh  Helpful resources and newsletter: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Connect with Neil: TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@the.betes Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebetes Facebook: https://facebook.com/neilgreathouse LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neil-greathouse-a607b912 Website: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Books on Amazon: Type 1 Diabetes – One Day at a Time: https://a.co/d/6UHooWJ Type 1 Diabetes – True Stories: https://a.co/d/dfIlyI1

  6. Oct 9

    The Weather Turned

    Nobody decides to stop moving in October. You skip one drizzly Tuesday, then the time change hits, then it's dark at 5:30, and you look up in January at half your summer step count, shocked, like this hasn't happened every year since the Clinton administration. This episode is about beating the fall slump by making one decision now, while there's still daylight. Pick your indoor plan before you need it. The halftime-and-commercials rule for football season. Marching in place during the Netflix are-you-still-watching screen. Mall laps, grocery laps, stairs, a resistance band on the doorknob. It doesn't matter which one. It matters that it's decided in October, so December-you never has to make a good decision in the dark at 5:45pm. In this episode: How the fall slump actually deletes habits, one cool evening at a timeWhy the two-day insulin sensitivity bonus makes consistency matter more in winterA menu of indoor movement plans that require zero equipmentThe commercial-break rule that turns football season into a step sourceYour challenge: name your indoor plan out loud, then run it once this week as a dress rehearsal, even if the weather's still fine. Helpful resources and newsletter: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Connect with Neil: TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@the.betes Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebetes Facebook: https://facebook.com/neilgreathouse LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neil-greathouse-a607b912 Website: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Books on Amazon: Type 1 Diabetes – One Day at a Time: https://a.co/d/6UHooWJ Type 1 Diabetes – True Stories: https://a.co/d/dfIlyI1

  7. Oct 7

    No Walk Required

    The best news in the whole research pile, for everyone whose body has notes: you don't have to walk. At all. A 2016 Diabetes Care study by Paddy Dempsey found that breaking up sitting with simple resistance moves, calf raises, half squats, sit-to-stands right beside a desk, lowered post-meal glucose and insulin about as well as walking did. The magic was never the walking. It's muscle contraction, any muscle contraction, opening the side door that pulls glucose out of your blood. Bad knees, chronic pain, wheelchairs, rainy weeks, unwalkable neighborhoods: this challenge was built for your body too. And hear this exactly right: seated and standing moves aren't the modified version. They're THE version. In this episode: The Dempsey study: resistance moves matched walking for post-meal glucoseSeated and standing options that open the same metabolic side doorAdapting the after-dinner ten and hourly get-up to any bodyWhy every activity challenge accidentally excludes people, and this one doesn'tYour challenge: swap one walk for one no-walk session this week and prove to yourself it counts. And send this episode to somebody who needs it. Helpful resources and newsletter: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Connect with Neil: TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@the.betes Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebetes Facebook: https://facebook.com/neilgreathouse LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neil-greathouse-a607b912 Website: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Books on Amazon: Type 1 Diabetes – One Day at a Time: https://a.co/d/6UHooWJ Type 1 Diabetes – True Stories: https://a.co/d/dfIlyI1

  8. Oct 5

    The Desk Job Playbook

    Eight meetings, one mailbox trip, and a CGM drifting up by 3pm for no food-related reason. Welcome to October, the real-life month of the Keep It Moving challenge, starting with everyone whose job owns their body eight hours a day: office workers, teachers, truckers, nurses charting after a shift. The principle: don't ADD movement to your day, HIDE it inside your day. Five plays, easiest first: the standing call, the top-of-the-hour get-up (the ADA's every-30-minutes guidance adapted for someone with an actual boss), the far bathroom, the one-glass-at-a-time water trick, and the ten-minute walking lunch. None of it looks like exercise, which is exactly the point. In this episode: Five ways to hide movement inside a workday, ranked by easeWhy desk jobs quietly raise insulin needs, and what interrupts itHabit-stacking movement onto calls, water, and lunch you already haveWhat the science says about light movement and afternoon glucose driftYour challenge: pick TWO plays from the playbook and run them every workday this week. Helpful resources and newsletter: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Connect with Neil: TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@the.betes Instagram: https://instagram.com/thebetes Facebook: https://facebook.com/neilgreathouse LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neil-greathouse-a607b912 Website: https://yourbestt1dyear.com Books on Amazon: Type 1 Diabetes – One Day at a Time: https://a.co/d/6UHooWJ Type 1 Diabetes – True Stories: https://a.co/d/dfIlyI1

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Managing Type 1 Diabetes doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Each 5-minute episode of Your Best T1D Year is packed with practical strategies, mindset shifts, and a little humor to help you feel more in control and less frustrated by diabetes. Hosted by Neil Greathouse, this Monday, Wednesday, and Friday podcast delivers quick, relatable episodes that make learning about T1D effortless - so you can build small wins that lead to big changes. 📅 New episodes drop every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. 🎧 Subscribe now and start making diabetes management feel easier - one small habit at a time.

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  • Creator
    Neil Greathouse
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    260
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    © 2026 Neil Greathouse
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