The Diabetic Body Coach

The Diabetic Body Coach Diabetic and online coach helping busy men and women get their glucose under control, lose body fat, and build a body they feel proud of. No extremes.

Practical coaching around insulin, food, training, and real life. Just structure that works. Online Personal Training

20/09/2026

If your blood sugars feel all over the place after meals, sometimes the issue isn’t the carbs themselves.

It’s how you’re eating them.

A bowl of cereal on its own.

Toast on its own.

Fruit on its own.

Rice or pasta with barely any protein or fibre around it.

That’s what I mean when I talk about “naked carbs.”

Now, that doesn’t mean you need to stop eating carbohydrates.

Especially if you’ve got type 1 diabetes, carbs are not the enemy.

But if you build your meals better, with a decent protein source, more fibre, vegetables, and a more balanced overall meal, you’ll often find the glucose response is much easier to manage.

It can also help with hunger, cravings and keeping your calorie intake under better control if you’re trying to lose body fat.

So instead of thinking:

“What carbs do I need to cut out?”

Start thinking:

“What do I need to add to this meal to make it work better for me?”

That small shift makes a massive difference.

And yes…

Please stop eating your carbs naked 😂

08/09/2026

Ever noticed you can do the same workout at two different times of the day… and get a completely different blood sugar response? 🤯

Morning session → glucose shoots up 📈

Evening session → suddenly you’re fighting a hypo 📉

Same workout.

**Completely different environment.**

Your glucose response to exercise isn’t determined by the workout alone.

Time of day, hormones, insulin on board, when you last ate, previous activity and the type/intensity of training can ALL change what happens.

This is why one of the biggest things I teach people with diabetes around exercise is to **stop looking at individual workouts and start looking for patterns.**

What happens when YOU train in the morning?

What happens when YOU train after work?

How much insulin do you normally have on board?

Once you start understanding those patterns, exercise with diabetes becomes a hell of a lot less unpredictable.

**Same workout ≠ same conditions.**

And understanding that can completely change the way you approach training with diabetes. 💉🏋️‍♂️

👇 Morning or evening trainer? And what does your blood sugar normally do?

03/09/2026

You bolus → glucose rises → you panic → correct → it’s STILL rising → correct again…

Then all that active insulin catches up with you.

📉 Hello hypo.

And if you’re trying to lose body fat, now you’ve also got to consume extra carbs to treat it — because obviously, you cannot just ignore a hypo to protect your calorie deficit.

This is why understanding insulin on board is so important.

Before automatically correcting again:

👉 PAUSE
👉 CHECK how much insulin is already active
👉 ACT according to your prescribed correction plan

Sometimes the best diabetes decision isn’t taking more insulin.

It’s giving the insulin you’ve already taken enough time to actually do its job.

Comment BOLUS below and I’ll send you my FREE guide on insulin timing, nutrition and better glucose management. 👇

**Always follow your individual insulin plan and speak with your diabetes team before changing doses.

28/08/2026

If you’re trying to get in shape with diabetes, carbs are not automatically the problem.

The bigger issue is usually understanding how different meals actually affect your glucose.

A carb-heavy meal on its own can behave very differently to one paired with protein and fibre.

High-fat, high-carb meals can look fine at first, then send glucose climbing hours later.

And meals out or convenience foods often contain faster-digesting carbs that can hit much harder than your usual meals at home.

I’ve lived with Type 1 diabetes for 14 years and spent over a decade coaching people with diabetes around blood sugar control, fat loss and building muscle.

This page is all about helping you understand how food, insulin, training and glucose work together so you can get in shape without making diabetes feel even harder.

Follow and go through the rest of the content if that’s what you’re working on.

25/08/2026

If your blood sugar is spiking post meal, there are generally 3 things like to look at to reduce these spikes.

25/08/2026

3 things that are causing your blood sugar to spike overnight 📈

If you've got type 1 diabetes and feel like you're constantly fighting your own body, this is for you.After coaching peo...
11/05/2026

If you've got type 1 diabetes and feel like you're constantly fighting your own body, this is for you.

After coaching people with type 1 diabetes for over 10 years, I can tell you honestly, the difference between the people who completely transform their health and the people who stay stuck for years almost never comes down to intelligence, motivation, or knowledge.

It comes down to something else entirely.

The people who stay stuck are almost always living in reaction mode.

Reacting to blood sugars. Reacting to bad weeks. Reacting to stress, to chaos, to life. Always responding after things have already gone wrong.

The people who get the best results eventually stop reacting, and start building actual structure around their diabetes instead.

And that difference is bigger than most people expect.

Most people think better diabetes control is just about insulin and glucose numbers. But the people who get the best results understand something deeper.

Your blood sugars are usually a reflection of your overall lifestyle. Your food structure, your body composition, your consistency. These are what create the patterns.

Fix the lifestyle, and the numbers follow.

A lot of people also tend to wait for the perfect time to start.

'When work calms down.' 'When the kids are older.' 'When life feels less stressful.'

But honestly, life never suddenly becomes stress-free. The people who transform their health learn how to manage their diabetes inside real life. Not a perfect, idealised version of it. The actual messy, busy, unpredictable version.

And this one is big.

The people who get the best results stop seeing diabetes management as just surviving the day, and start focusing on building a healthier body.

Because better body composition directly improves insulin sensitivity, glucose stability, and energy levels. Your physique and your diabetes control are deeply connected, and most people don't realise how connected until they actually start working on both together.

Another pattern I see constantly, the people who stay stuck keep relying on motivation to carry them.

But motivation disappears the second life gets difficult. And with type 1 diabetes, life gets difficult regularly.

The people who get results build systems and routines that still work on the hard days. On the busy days. On the days they really can't be bothered.

That's what creates long-term change. Not two weeks of intensity followed by burning out.

And honestly, most people already know what to do.

Eat better. Train consistently. Be more structured.

But knowing isn't the problem. It hasn't been the problem for a long time.

The real issue is having no structure, no accountability, and no proper guidance to actually apply it consistently, day after day, in real life, with type 1 diabetes making everything that little bit more complex.

That gap between knowing and doing is exactly where people stay stuck for years.

The people who stay stuck keep trying to figure it all out alone. Reading more. Researching more. Waiting for the right moment.

The people who get results reach a different kind of moment.

They just decide.

'I'm done living like this.'

And that decision, that single shift, is normally where everything changes.

Like Michelle (in the photo), who went from constant corrections and unhappy with her body to stable blood sugars and 20kg loss.

If you're ready to stop figuring this out alone, send me a message with the word CONTROL and I'll come back to you personally.

This was something I didn’t really recognise properly at the time.From the outside, it looked like I had things handled....
06/05/2026

This was something I didn’t really recognise properly at the time.

From the outside, it looked like I had things handled.�
I understood diabetes, I knew what I was supposed to be doing, and I was getting on with life like normal.

But when I actually look back on it, a lot of my diabetes management was sitting in the background.

Not fully ignored, but not properly structured either.
A big part of that came from how I felt around other people.

I didn’t like drawing attention to it.�I didn’t like feeling like I had to explain myself.

So instead of dealing with it in a clear and consistent way, I kept things quiet and just managed it in my own head.

That meant a lot of small decisions throughout the day that weren’t really thought through.

Eating without much structure.�Adjusting things on the go.
�Reacting to what was happening rather than having a clear plan behind it.

Over time, that creates a way of managing things that never quite feels settled.

There’s always something slightly off in the background, even if it’s not obvious straight away.

This is something I see a lot with people.

It’s not that they don’t care.�It’s not that they don’t understand diabetes.
It’s just been handled in a way that never fully moved into something consistent and structured.

Once that changes, everything starts to feel a lot clearer.

If you’ve ever felt like your diabetes has been there in the background without a clear way of managing it day to day, you’ll know exactly what I mean.

COMMENT “HEATHER” if you want to see how we made this work around real life with type 1.Heather’s been navigating type 1...
05/05/2026

COMMENT “HEATHER” if you want to see how we made this work around real life with type 1.

Heather’s been navigating type 1, work, and being a mum to a toddler.

So fat loss was never just about calories or training. It was about finding a way to look after herself without everything else falling apart.

Her days are full. Some unpredictable. Energy isn’t always consistent. Blood sugars need attention. And like most mums, she’d spent a long time at the bottom of her own list.

When she started, she didn’t ask for anything extreme.

She wanted to feel more like herself again. Have some structure. Build a bit of momentum she could actually keep going.

So that’s what we focused on.

Training she could do from home.
A way of eating she could repeat without overthinking.
A structure that worked on busy days, not just the ideal ones.

Over time, that added up to:

• 18lbs lost
• Her best A1C to date
• More stable day-to-day energy
• Feeling stronger and more comfortable in her body

There wasn’t a turning point where everything suddenly clicked.

It was small decisions, repeated across weeks where life still looked the same. Toddler, work, diabetes, all still there.

She just had something that worked alongside it.

That’s usually the missing piece.

If you’re trying to manage your body, your glucose, and a full life at the same time, you need something that holds up on the days where things aren’t perfect.

Comment “HEATHER” and I’ll show you how we build that.

A lot of people won’t say this out loud… but they’ll recognise it straight away.There were periods where I avoided check...
02/05/2026

A lot of people won’t say this out loud… but they’ll recognise it straight away.

There were periods where I avoided checking my blood sugars.

Not because I didn’t understand diabetes
Not because I didn’t care about my health

It was more the mental side of it.

Every time you check, there’s something attached to it.
A decision to make.
Something to adjust.
Something else to think about in an already busy day.

And when that keeps happening over and over again, it can feel easier to just delay it.

“I’ll check in a bit”
“I’ll sort it later”

But that pattern builds.

More reacting.
More guesswork.
Less clarity on what’s actually going on.

That’s where things start to feel unpredictable.

And for a lot of people, that’s the part that becomes exhausting.

This is something I had to work through properly.

Not by trying to be more “on it” all the time, but by building a way of managing things that actually fit into my day.

Something that made it easier to stay on top of things without it feeling like a constant interruption.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re just reacting day to day with your diabetes, you’re not the only one.

And it’s something that can be worked through with the right structure around it.

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