Reclaim Your Rise: Type 1 Diabetes with Lauren Bongiorno
Lauren Bongiorno is a Nationally Board Certified Health Coach and the founder and CEO of Risely Health. Featured on the TODAY show and other media outlets, Risely helps people and families impacted by Type 1 Diabetes take ownership over their health so they can transform their life with more freedom and confidence. Lauren has lived with type 1 diabetes since she was 7 years old and has experienced firsthand that when health transforms, so does everything else - our relationships, our time, our career, our families, and, most importantly, ourselves. Each week she will bring you lessons from her own personal diabetes experience, strategies that are key to understanding your body’s patterns, and guests who will speak to everything from advances in technology to all things hormones, exercise, relationships, and mindset. All of this so that over time, you TOO can reclaim your rise.
Reclaim Your Rise: Type 1 Diabetes with Lauren Bongiorno
226. Pregnancy With Type 1 Diabetes: Meg’s Real-Time Story of Insulin Resistance, Fear, and Letting Go
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In this episode, Meg Bomley shares her T1D journey from being diagnosed at 18 years old and spending eight years on MDI without a CGM, to becoming someone who feels deeply empowered in her body and her diabetes.
Meg first came on the podcast in 2022 after graduating from Risely coaching. At the time, she had just come out of a season of constant lows, burnout, and feeling completely overwhelmed after switching to a pump without the support she needed.
Today, she’s back as a nationally board certified health coach, and 35 weeks pregnant with type 1 diabetes, one of Risely’s top coaches.
The majority of this conversation is the reality of navigating pregnancy with T1D: the nausea, insulin resistance, fear of highs, changing carb ratios, and learning to trust yourself in this season.
WHAT WE COVER:
- Why Meg resisted pumps and CGMs for nearly 8 years after diagnosis
- The “biggest disaster ever” that happened when she first switched to a pump
- What finally helped her stop feeling resistant, overwhelmed, and burnt out with diabetes
- How coaching helped her uncover mindset blocks that had nothing to do with insulin or carb counting
- The first sign Meg noticed that told her her insulin resistance was changing after getting pregnant
- How she managed nausea, vomiting, insulin on board, and eating mostly carbs during pregnancy
- The difference between taking 5 units for oatmeal pre-pregnancy vs. 16 units during pregnancy
- What it’s actually like mentally to watch yourself take “large amounts of insulin” every day
WHAT’S NEXT:
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