SHOW NOTES: Here’s the quiet part said out loud: the reason you don’t pre-bolus is not that you’re lazy or that you don’t care. It’s that it scares you. Neil names the specific fear at the center of the whole challenge, the fear of going low before the food arrives, and tells you the truth, 34 years in, it still scares him too.
This is the episode nobody put in the pamphlet. The pamphlet says “pre-bolus 15 minutes before your meal” and leaves you alone with the little spike of panic when the arrow turns down and the food isn’t ready. Neil validates that fear completely, because it’s not a character flaw, it’s your survival brain doing its job. And then he promises what’s coming: not pretending the fear away, but out-preparing it.
In this episode:
- The fear of hypoglycemia and why it stops us from pre-bolusing
- Why that fear is normal, rational, and not a personal weakness
- What the pamphlets never tell you about insulin timing
- How we’re going to face the fear instead of ignoring it
This Week’s Challenge: The next few times you decide NOT to pre-bolus, catch yourself and notice what you’re feeling. Fear? Forgetting? No time? Just get honest about it.
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