Pizza: The Most Frustrating Food for Type 1 Diabetes

For people living with type 1 diabetes (T1D), food is never just food–every meal comes with calculations.Every time you eat, you’re making multiple decisions — how much insulin to take, when to take it, and how your body might respond. And even when you get everything right, the next day may be completely different. You can eat the same thing two days in a row and get completely different results, leaving you second-guessing decisions you thought you had figured out.

One food that captures that struggle? Pizza.

You plan ahead, you do the math, you know you’ve accounted for everything — and it still finds a way to send your blood glucose on a roller coaster.

In this Voices of T1D episode, host Raquel Baron sits down with registered dietitian Dr. Catherine McManus to break down exactly why eating pizza with T1D can be so unpredictable. Together, they look at the surprising number of decisions at play with pizza, and how those same decisions show up with other foods, too.

Voices of T1D is a brand-new podcast presented by Breakthrough T1D that explores what it’s really like to live with type 1 diabetes. Each month, a new episode will explore the emotional, social, and day-to-day realities of living with T1D, featuring honest conversations with people who navigate it every day.

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