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I started out 2025 reading Good Energy–a book I had gotten for Christmas written by brother and sister duo, Calley and Casey Means (and she is the Surgeon General). The book was fabulous and I learned so much, and it’s a book that I’ll read again in the new year.

One of the things I learned was the importance of regulating your blood sugar for non-diabetics. Having a constant spike and drop in your blood sugar results in weight gain and that pesky belly fat that lots of us cannot get rid of. Casey Means is part owner of the continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) company, Levels, that she talks a lot about in the book. It was something I really wanted to do since I struggled to lose weight but the subscription to Levels was expensive. I looked around at other CGM companies and found cheaper options but they weren’t that much cheaper.

This summer, my mom came across a CGM company called Lingo that was much more affordable than all of the others I had seen! She subscribed and wore a CGM for a few weeks and learned she had some blood sugar issues that she was able to get under control with the use of her CGM. She then passed her subscription to me and I was able to learn about my own blood sugar!

You can see me wearing it on the back of my right arm at Disney so I could see how eating at Disney and walking at Disney affected my blood sugar. (side note: Merritt ripped that out of my arm the next day when she was hot and tired, so I didn’t get to monitor my blood sugar because I didn’t bring an extra sensor)

I’ve learned some really interesting things wearing that monitor, and I saved my last one (they last two weeks) to wear over Thanksgiving so I can see how that type of food affects my blood sugar or if I can control it with exercise. So far I’ve learned that my biggest spike was after I ate Mexican food one night–which makes sense because it was so carb heavy. I’ve also learned that my blood sugar drops sometimes during the night between 3 and 4 am. And I’ve also seen evidence how exercising can stabilize my blood sugar–which the book explains but it was neat to actually see it.

It’s really easy to wear the CGM, too! You insert it in the back of your arm–you can do it yourself, but I make Dustin do it for me since I always put his in. Then you open the app on your phone, touch your phone to the sensor to link, and it takes an hour for your readings to start showing up. After that, you open the app whenever you want to check your blood sugar.

Right now, Lingo is offering 15% off a one month subscription (2 CGMs–use code HOLIDAY15), and I think that’s enough time to see what your blood sugar does and how you can make adjustments to keep your blood sugar stable.

I’m sharing two screenshots of my blood sugar so you can see what you’ll see when you open your app!

You can see one evening where my blood sugar was trending down, but I had literally just finished eating so it went up after that. You can also see a spike after 2 pm…..when I ate a handful of tootsie rolls….

This was actually this morning and I’m shocked it’s super stable! Usually my blood sugar stays between 53 and 70-something, but I ate a very early dinner last night and drank a lot of water yesterday. Also I did eat an Annie’s cinnamon roll yesterday morning, but then ate lots of protein the rest of the day. Maybe that helped? I’m still working to figure everything out, but I do try to maintain a high protein diet.

Hopefully this post has helped if you’ve ever been curious about your blood sugar! Obviously this doesn’t apply to diabetics. Dustin, who is a type 1 diabetic, has his own CGM that works with his pump, and our (probably my) goal with that is to catch extreme highs and lows. And I highly recommend reading Good Energy if you’re interested in taking charge of your health!