Victoria Song

I dealt with it as a teen, and I worked really hard for decades to have a healthy relationship with food and exercise.

And I found that I was just like, oh.

I can just take a 40-minute walk after this meal and then I'm allowed to have a piece of cake.

And that is not healthy thinking.

That's not healthy thinking whatsoever.

And if you don't, like, notice it, if you don't flag it, that can turn into something a lot more dangerous very quickly.

And I legitimately had my therapist go like, hey –

I've noticed you've been talking about food in a way that you haven't in a really long time, and I just want to investigate why this is happening.

And I explained this whole experiment, and she's like, I love your dedication to work, but can we consider that it's not out of the realm of possibility that you can enjoy a single slice of cake and see a spike, and that's okay?

And, you know, yeah.

This was the ultimate question I was trying to find out in the research.

And unfortunately, there is not a good answer.

So we have a lot of data about diabetics.

We have no consensus among experts about the data from non-diabetics.

So I actually interviewed Nicole Spartano from who had run this study where she took non-diabetic CGM data and gave it to 18 expert endocrinologists who extensively work with CGMs.

in talking to these researchers, they were telling me it could take years, just like several years before we have enough data, enough peer reviewed studies, enough consensus to have an actual actionable advice for people like me.

And I legitimately was losing sleep every night thinking that I had something wrong with me.

And so I went to another doctor

I was showing her all my data and eventually what happened was this doctor held my hand and she's like, I'm so proud of you.

You clearly take a lot of interest in your health.