I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2005. Back then, diabetes management meant finger-prick tests, insulin injections with a syringe, and a lot of guessing. Every meal was an experiment with incomplete data.
For years, I watched my blood sugar react to food without really understanding why. I'd eat a bowl of poha and spike unexpectedly. I'd have one mango and spend two hours correcting. I'd drink chai and wonder why the afternoon felt so off.
Then I started using a CGM — a Continuous Glucose Monitor. And for the first time, I could see exactly what food was doing to my glucose in real time. The invisible became visible.
What I saw surprised me. It surprised people around me. My father has Type 2 diabetes. My brother is non-diabetic. We started testing the same foods together. The same mango. The same chai. The same paratha. The CGM data told three completely different stories.
That's when What My Sugar Says was born. Not as a medical platform. Not as a fear-based warning channel. But as an awareness, education, and storytelling platform — showing what real Indian food may do to real Indian blood sugar, across different body types, without shame, without judgment, and without medical claims.