Your Best T1D Year
Your Best T1D Year
Neil Greathouse
The Chair is Winning
6 minutes Posted Sep 2, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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Welcome to Keep It Moving, the new 8-week challenge for people with type 1 diabetes, and meet the villain: the chair. Nobody decides to sit for half a day. The chair decides for you, quietly, like a Netflix autoplay countdown, and your blood sugar pays the tax. Neil opens with his own confession: eight back-to-back Zoom meetings, a 4am run that turned into a fully sedentary day, and the insulin sensitivity drop he can feel by every afternoon.

This is not a fitness challenge. No gym, no gear, no 10,000 steps. The problem is long, unbroken sitting, and the fix is smaller than anyone has told you. Starting now, right before the fall slump steals everyone's movement, about 2,000 people with T1D are getting ahead of it together.

In this episode:

  • Why sitting, not exercise, is the real blood sugar problem for most of us
  • How long unbroken sitting quietly raises insulin needs through the day
  • What the fall slump does to activity and A1C, and why we start in September
  • The before picture: the one number to notice this week without changing anything

Your challenge this week: change nothing. Just notice your longest unbroken sit each day. No guilt, no fixing. We're taking the before picture.

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Books on Amazon: Type 1 Diabetes – One Day at a Time: https://a.co/d/6UHooWJ Type 1 Diabetes – True Stories: https://a.co/d/dfIlyI1