Are you a type 1 diabetic balancing between managing your diabetes but also feeling food-deprived? Has your diabetes caused you to restrict foods that you eventually sneak or binge eat? Are you a parent of a type 1 diabetic and don't want your child to feel left out and deprived?

I had a chat with Danielle Bublitz, a registered dietitian who works with type 1 diabetics and uses a non-diet, intuitive eating approach. She can help answer many of your questions around how to listen to your body's food needs and wants while managing your blood sugar. We talk about:

• Danielle's personal story being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at a young age.
• What led her to take an intuitive eating approach in her nutrition work with type 1 diabetics.
• How patients come to her wanting to be healthy, which in their eyes meant being a certain weight and eating perfectly.
• How many of her patients are getting a lot of “NO” in response to foods they can eat and are led to believe they have to cut foods out.
• Factors other than food including stress, hormones, and lack of sleep can all trigger fluctuations in blood sugar.
• Learning about nutrition so that you can actually enjoy carbs while regulating your blood sugar.
• How kids with type 1 diabetes begin to feel left out because of foods they are told they can’t have, which ultimately can lead to sneak-eating and binges.
• Eating disorders such as diabulimia and disordered eating behaviors among type 1 diabetics, how they begin, and how she works with clients on these behaviors.
• Her own bout of ketoacidosis once landed her in the ICU and people complimented her on the way she looked after leaving the hospital.
• How intuitive eating can help with blood sugar management.

If you are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, or if you're a parent of a type 1 diabetic, you definitely want to listen to my chat with Danielle!

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Do you need help trying to break free from rigid food tracking or other forms of disordered eating??

I suffered from disordered eating for over two decades of my life. When I was finally ready to admit that my disorder was a major roadblock for me to move forward with so many other things in life, I slowly started to reject food rules, stop weighing myself, looked at exercise differently, and had more compassion for my natural body shape and size.

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