Deadlifts, Hypos & Chaos: Chloe’s Gym Hypo Nightmare with T1D (Listener Story)

This week on We Are T1D, we’ve got a hilarious and chaotic listener story from Chloe, 19, from Mannie (Manchester). Picture this: a gym, deadlifts, perfect sugars, and then—BAM—a sudden hypo that turns a pumped-up PB attempt into an emergency Coke-and-crisps session.

Jack and Mike break down Chloe’s gym adventure, the panic, the shakes, and the ultimate chaos that only Type 1 diabetes can deliver. Whether you’re a gym-goer, a T1D warrior, or just here for the laughs, this one’s for you.

What’s Inside:

• Chloe’s deadlift disaster and sugar dive to 3.8 mmol/L

• Fumbling for emergency glucose in front of burly gym-goers

• The ultimate “just let me finish my set” mentality

• How fizzy drinks like Coke can save a hypo situation

• Mike & Jack’s banter over Wookiee growls, Jeby babies, and Racer Bars

• Gym tips for T1D: always double-check your emergency snacks

💬 “Have you ever seen a girl called Chloe in a gym just shaking little jelly babies around and growling like a Wookiee? Don’t worry, she’s just having a hypo.” – Jack

Key Takeaways:

• Always carry quick-acting emergency glucose (liquid or tabs) in your gym bag

• Pre-bolus meals are great, but hypoglycemia can still strike

• Fizzy sugary drinks like Coke can be a lifesaver when hypos hit hard

• Don’t beat yourself up—hypos happen, even during your PB attempt

• Sharing your chaotic T1D moments can be hilarious and relatable

Links & Resources:

• Website: wearet1d.com

• Email: [e-mail]

• Instagram: Mike & Jack

• WhatsApp Community: Join Here

• External Resource: Diabetes UK – Exercise & Diabetes

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#Type1Diabetes #T1DLife #DiabetesPodcast #WeAreT1D #T1DCommunity #GymHypos #DeadliftChaos #ListenerStory

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Welcome back to the We Are T1D podcast and it's that time
again. Listen to Story Time.
Oh yes, roll that Jingle, it's time for a giggle.
What's the story? Right, I shall kick this one off
this week and it is from Chloe, who is 19 from Manny.

(00:25):
Is that Manchester? I assume so.
Manet. Chloe from Manet.
So it says. I was at the gym yesterday,
right? Dead lifting, feeling all strong
and powerful, like I could benchpress a small car.

(00:47):
I know them. You know when you walk in the
gym, you're like, come on. Yeah, yeah.
You feel pumped in it. You do like the adrenaline's
going through. You're like, nothing's stopping
me today. Sugar's belt bang on around 6.5
mole which honestly is like a Unicorn sign for me at the gym.

(01:09):
And anyone? Yeah, yeah, I'd even done my pre
bonus for the protein bar I was going to devour after feeling
smug. Basically, I like it.
What protein? I like the confidence.
Then out of nowhere, my phone starts buzzing like a trap bee
and mugging back. I could imagine.

(01:37):
Not now. Not when I'm about to set my new
PB to prick. That's how I talk to my phone.
I'm like shut up you prick, I'vepicked it up expecting it to be
my mate asking if I was still alive.
Nope. An arrow pointing down straight

(01:57):
down 3.8. Bloody hell, yeah.
That's that's scary numbers. That's what the buzz was, yeah.
I swear I actually growled like a full on Wookie I.
Can't do it. Wait, I'm going to get it.

(02:20):
I can't do it. I can't do it today.
I can usually do this is. This is the best concert ever.

(02:49):
There you go. That's better.
There we go. I got it.
I sound. Like a Furby bro.
I'm going to give you gonorrhea.Wow, what Herb?
What Furbies are you playing? With when I think of Furby, I
think. Do you remember the old Weird Al
Yankovic videos? I remember the guy, I never

(03:11):
watched him bro I weren't reallyinto.
That you don't have one on Furby.
It's. Hilarious, anyway.
Don't mention me. Yeah, the.
Wookie threw us right off. Sorry.
Yeah. Anyway, after the Wookie sound
scrambled from our bag, I'm fumbling for my emergency

(03:31):
glucose tabs. Some burly dude on the lap pull
down machine gave me a weird look.
I just kind of waved the shaky Jebby baby at him.
Jebby baby, not Jelly baby. I've read, Alice wrote.
Don't I? Oh.
Yeah. He blinked and probably thought

(03:52):
I was having a seizure or something.
Just give me a, just give me 5 minutes sugar, 5 minutes to
finish this set. I know them finish and I want to
just like just to please just literally just let me do this
and then you could do what you want.
I can deal with you after. Just let me finish what I need
to do. You want the universe to listen
to you. Pop 3-4, maybe five of those fat

(04:16):
little sugar bellies. Nothing still dropping.
I knew I should have packed thatemergency's knickers.
I went from AI am Invincible to I Need Sugar Now in about 30
seconds flat. I think we've all been there.
To be fair, I had to abandon thedeadlifts.
I stumbled over to the vending machine, my heart pounding like

(04:36):
a drum solo. I ended up buying a full sugar
Coke and a packet of crisps because when you load, the diet
plan goes out the window. Yeah, yeah.
It does, doesn't. It.
I ruin I ruin so many of my dietdays because of.
Diet, Yeah, yeah, I've done thatquite a few times.
But like, you've done so good and it's that one hypo and you

(04:58):
absolutely fucking just demolished the fridge, bro.
That's it. Whole bag of Tang Fastix
looking. At your mind fitness app like
Nah bro that's don't worry aboutthem numbers adding it's.
Over 1017. Bags of higher Harry bows 3 cans

(05:18):
of Coke. And don't forget a Jebby baby.
Oh yeah, A. Couple of Jebby babies.
Yeah. I've chugged that coke like my
life depended on it. I, I, I know that and it's so
nice. Coke never tastes so nice when
you're craving it like that. I still never have coke.

(05:41):
Try it. Broth.
Because do you know what I find with Coke because it's so
sugary, you know, when you go inlow, you really crave something
sweet. So instead of keep shoving,
Harry bows and Harry bows and Harry bows in your mouth because
it's so easy to overindulge. It's nice to just have a really
cold, fizzy, sugary kind of drink that you can just on and

(06:02):
it kills that craving, you know?What I had the other day, really
weird, I had a like a sugary RedBull.
Yeah, I haven't had a sugary red.
It was. Absolutely disgusting.
I'm sorry when you've drunk White Monster for so long and
then you have a Red Bull mate, it got me my sugars.
I'm a sugar free Red Bull kind of man, not a monster.
To go you'll never be a monster.Oh no, not again.

(06:32):
So. Back to Chloe, bless her, she's
sitting on the floor drinking coke.
She sat on the floor for a bit, feeling the sugar kick in, the
shakes slowly fading, sugars climbing to 5.2, then six
finally. But the deadlifts, Nah, gym
session ruined all that pump adrenaline gone thanks to

(06:52):
pancreas. You're a real Dick.
I felt that. I felt it was.
Such a really heartfelt Dick, wasn't it?
You are a you're such a Dick. Yeah, sometimes that is the only
word that it needed to sum up something.
Yeah. Anyway, I thought you guys would

(07:15):
appreciate the chaos. Keep up the awesome work.
Sending hypo hugs from Chloe. Thank you Chloe.
Thank you, Chloe. You keep your hypos to yourself.
I have the only ones to deal with.
Exactly. I don't need more, man.

(07:36):
No, I must be waving around the little fat silly.
So yeah, if you ever see a girl called Chloe in a gym just sort
of shaking little Jelly babies around and grounding like a

(07:57):
wookie, don't worry, she's just having a hypo.
Yeah, the mental image I have right now is ridiculous.
Nah, obviously we're glad you'reOK, Chloe.
Obviously others wouldn't be able to send this story in.
I think everyone's been there. I've had many a time in a gym
where I've had to just abandonedeverything and go do you know

(08:17):
what? It's it's, I need to go home
now. It's it's, it's not, it's not
going to happen today and it's. Been exact.
Tried so many times. Yeah.
To push through. Yeah, right.
I tell you what, You just get weaker and weaker and weaker.
It's like, what is the point? Don't do it.
Treat yourself. Yeah.
Don't beat. Yourself, literally I think it

(08:43):
was last week. I was, I was on the chess press.
I was pushing it. I was like, got no energy man.
Do you know it's only It feels like you're trying to push it
through mud, don't it? Yeah, but that's the thing.
They say glucose is energy, right?
That's why you can't be botheredto do anything when you're low.
No, because. Because your energy is no.
You have low fuel. Your body's fuel is glucose.

(09:06):
If you don't put fuel in your car, it ain't going nowhere.
You don't put glucose in your body or you don't have glucose
in your body. You ain't doing nothing.
No. So make sure you've got some
glucose. So next time you go to the gym,
Chloe, double check and make sure you've got that emergency
Snickers in your bag. Yeah.
I, I like Snickers. Do you know what?
I actually like the Audi versionof the Snickers, and they're

(09:29):
called racer bars. I know.
And they eat some. They're bang on. 20 grams of
carbs. Spot on bruv are.
We signing out on that one. Nah, I was just.
I just thought I'd add that no. It sounded very final.
Nah. Just spot on.
So yeah, always double check your gym bag.

(09:49):
Make sure you do have them. Emergency snacks always have
something really like. I know you say black glucose
tabs are fast acting but for me it's in situations like that
nothing works better than liquid.
Yeah, yeah, I take the lift shots, the liquid ones, they are
so good, the. Lift glucose shots are spot on.
They fit in your bag tiny and obviously they're measured out

(10:13):
to 15 grams, so you can't reallyoverindulge and they do work
very, very quickly. And they taste nice.
They do. Oh yeah, thank you for sending
that in. I hope you're getting them well
at the gym now. No hypos and you've hit your PB.
Yeah, What is your PB? Let us know.
There's more than mine. I'll be upset.

(10:34):
I guarantee it is. My PB is 110 at the moment.
I haven't dead lifted for a verylong time so I can't comment.
I've only just started, yeah. I can't.
Comment I started on I started on 60 or 70.
No 60 I started on. I thought, oh this is easy.
I used to deadlift. I used to deadlift when I was
probably 1718 when me and you used to go to the gym flexed and

(10:58):
I was really into it because I was a chubby guy.
So I was so determined to have changed my life around.
But I hurt my back quite badly because obviously it's my own
fault. It's bad posture, but yeah.
And I've not really done them since because they don't want to
throw me back. Out.
Yeah. He's too scared to stick his bum
out. That's the problem.

(11:20):
Don't worry about that. Oh yeah, yeah, people with a bad
back in the gym are scared to poke their bum out.
Yeah, well that's why I haven't.If I if I have bad backs now I'm
self-employed so time off work means no money.
That's it, he pokes his bum out to make their.
Money. Anyway, guys, let's sign off
here, right? Hope you've enjoyed it.

(11:42):
If you've got any of your own stories or anything, submit her
in into the podcast on the website wearet1d.com or via our
Instagrams or via e-mail. Yeah, which is in.
The and the crazier the bell, welack it.
Crazy. Yeah, yeah, we're lucky.
Yeah, humour, chaos. We love it all.

(12:03):
Please. Don't mention no.
No, but we all know that no Type1 diabetics life is never
complete without a little bit ofchaos.
Oh yeah, I like to see it as organised chaos.
I. Like to see it as pancreolius.
Pancreas, Pancreas less, pancreas less.

(12:24):
What a weird word. I know what you're saying.
Pancreas less chaos. There you go.
See you later, everyone. Bye.
Bye guys, bye.