Picking the brain of a T1D & Dietitian with Tiana Lavin
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Jess and Wendy sit down with registered dietitian Tiana Lavin, who brings both clinical insight and lived experience with type 1 diabetes. Tiana shares her diagnosis story, from being brushed off to landing in the ER with DKA during college finals, and the tough stretch that followed with restrictive eating and confusing advice.
Tiana talks about what she wishes she knew sooner, like why chasing “perfect” numbers can backfire. We also get into the strategies that actually help! Tiana also digs into mental health and the power of finding even one person in the diabetes community.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Diabetes Digital Podcast. We are so excited to be joined by one of our very |
| 0:06.1 | own dieticians who really understands diabetes care from both sides as a clinician and as someone |
| 0:13.0 | living with type 1 diabetes. We have Tiana Lavin, who is a registered dietitian. She's based |
| 0:19.7 | in San Diego. She's been working in the field of nutrition since 2018. |
| 0:24.5 | And her work specializes in helping adults find balance between enjoying food and managing |
| 0:31.3 | their blood sugars. |
| 0:32.1 | She brings such a unique perspective as someone who has been living with type one diabetes. And we're going to be |
| 0:39.5 | talking more about her diagnosis, lessons that she's learned along the way, and also her |
| 0:45.7 | approach to nutrition. Yeah, we're very excited to talk to Tiana because we had a, we had an |
| 0:52.2 | award ceremony with our dietitians for our team trip and the award that |
| 0:57.1 | Tiana got was result rock star and that is partly because she is really good at helping clients |
| 1:04.0 | lower their A1C especially clients who have diabetes or type 1 and they feel like they've done |
| 1:10.4 | everything and there's like nothing |
| 1:11.7 | that a dietitian could possibly do. Like she's a dietitian who will still help you get your |
| 1:16.0 | A1C down. So I think it's really good to talk to her to learn not only like her personal journey |
| 1:22.0 | with type 1 and she'll share a little bit about her diagnosis story, which, yeah, you guys will hear that, |
| 1:31.1 | and it's pretty interesting, as well as, yeah, just some of the mental and emotional sides |
| 1:35.6 | of managing diabetes, navigating the health care system, some diabetes tech and insulin insights. |
| 1:43.2 | She is a wealth of knowledge knowledge and we're so excited to |
| 1:45.9 | talk to her today. Welcome to the Diabetes Digital podcast. I'm Wendy and I'm Jess and we're |
| 1:51.5 | best friends, registered dietitians and diabetes educators. Through our telehealth platform, |
| 1:56.8 | diabetes digital.co, we offer accessible and personalized virtual nutrition counseling for people |
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