Tyler Harvey · Type 1 Diabetic
We get a diagnosis, we get the medication. Nobody hands us a manual for the life in between. So I decided to write one for us.
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This is for you if
This isn't for people who want to be managed. It's for people who want to master it.
If you're newly diagnosed — or just tired of guessing — this is where I'd begin. What I learned the hard way, written plainly.
The Sweet Struggle
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What you'll learn
Most T1Ds are handed a diagnosis and left to figure out the rest. This is the knowledge I'm building in real time — documented without filters, shared without restrictions.
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It's not just carbs. It's everything.
Most people think blood sugar management starts and ends with counting carbs. It doesn't. Protein, fat, stress, sleep — it all moves the needle. I document what actually spikes me, what doesn't, and why the textbook version rarely matches real life.
02
The gap between prescribed and precise.
Your basal rate, your bolus, your correction factor — these aren't set and forget. I document the testing, the adjusting, and the moments where getting it right changes everything about how you feel and function.
03
The part nobody talks about.
Managing T1D is a full time mental load. The discipline it takes, the frustration when the numbers don't cooperate, and what it actually feels like to refuse to let it win. This is the honest version.
The turning point
I work on film sets. My sensor alarm went off mid-take. I was having a hypo. The director didn't care. The 1st AD didn't care. I got pulled from set that day. Not because I'd done anything wrong, but because my body needed sugar and the timing was inconvenient for someone else's schedule. That was the day I decided to stop guessing and start knowing.
Who is Tyler Harvey
I'm a Film Grip. On set that means building the tracks, the cranes, the sliders. Anything that moves a camera, we build it. When the camera isn't moving, we're the handymen. Long hours, physical work, unpredictable days. Not exactly the ideal environment for managing Type 1 diabetes.
I was diagnosed as a teenager. For years I got by on guesswork. A lucky correction here, an approximate carb count there. I never truly owned it. Never fully understood what was happening inside my body or why.
Nobody gets it. Not really. And I'd spent years hoping they would instead of taking full control myself. That day on set changed everything. I decided to master my diabetes, not manage it. I started studying, testing, documenting. I also qualified as a personal trainer, a side where I'm the one in control.
The Sweet Struggle is what came next. A real-time record of what it looks like when a T1D stops guessing and starts knowing. I'm building the manual I never got and sharing every page of it. If you've ever felt completely alone in this, I built this for you.
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