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patriciafoley1
patriciafoley1 Posts: 521 Member
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Currently I keep a calendar on my desk, where I enter my weight and blood sugar during the day. I realize MFP lets you enter blood sugar, but I don't think it lets you do a time.

I'd like an app that I can track my meals/foods eaten just like MFP, but also blood sugar throughout the day as I enter it, and will give me reports of average blood sugars, rises, falls, etc.

I've looked in the apple store, and I haven't seen too much about diet tracking or reports. And there are complaints on some that if you sign up for a free trial they charge you before the trial is over. So before I even do a free trial, I'd love some recommendations from those that use one. I realize if you are on MFP you might not be using any other app, and maybe it is overkill. But I don't want to slip up now that i have gotten this far. And given how easily it is to get back into bad habits on maintenance for weight, I want to avoid that with both weight and blood sugar.

Thanks for any recommendations.

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  • samgettingfit25
    samgettingfit25 Posts: 41 Member

    I use MySugr mainly because I have an iPhone and Apple Watch and it is one of the apps that sync with Apple Health. I like that it pulls together my weight, blood pressure, glucose, and exercise from Apple Health. It has an option to link to a few glucose monitors that automatically log, but my insurance doesn't cover those monitors (and I prefer to use the one where my insurance pays for the strips).

    MySugr also calculates a running average of my glucose readings. It's average was higher than the average based on my tested A1C but that's likely because I often only test fasted in the morning. I wish it pulled nutrition information from MFP or Apple Health but it doesn't seem to. The blood sugar entries have a field to log carb grams eaten since last reading and make notes about recent meals and activity.

  • 2t9nty
    2t9nty Posts: 1,718 Member

    When I was tracking, I used MySugr. I liked it and for me the estimated average was very close to my A1C when I got one.

  • JudyValentine3
    JudyValentine3 Posts: 84 Member

    I'm showing my age, but I use a 300 page notebook and write it down there everymoring with the time, th en evey meal with the time. I also use MFP. I made a category for Blood surgar that I can enter my levels every meal.

  • patriciafoley1
    patriciafoley1 Posts: 521 Member

    I finally figured out MySugr to some extent. I had it linked to my reli-on meter and it uploaded months of statistics. Gave me a dMI of 6.2

    But I can't figure out how to add daily carbs. Which would be helpful.

    It would be great if it linked to MFP but it doesn't seem to.

    HAs anyone tried to enter carbs, calories or steps daily to get some sense of how intake effects blood sugar trends?

    I looked in their help section but I don't see it.

  • 2t9nty
    2t9nty Posts: 1,718 Member

    My experience is that the apps with do one thing pretty well but you can't expect more than that one thing. They also don't seem to be very well integrated or connected to each other.

  • samgettingfit25
    samgettingfit25 Posts: 41 Member

    Yes, you can enter meal carbs on MySugr. I have an iPhone so it may be different on another type of phone. Press the + button like you are manually adding a glucose reading, enter the carbs instead (or medication, or exercise, or a note). I manually log glucose through Apple Health and have My Sugr integrated so it automatically pulls glucose readings, exercise, blood pressure, weight. Sadly, My Sugr doesn't pull nutrition from Apple Health or MFP. You can also enter carbs within a glucose entry, sometimes I do that logging the carbs since my last reading. I haven't been doing that recently just because I don't take my glucose often enough for it to make sense right now.

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