Diabetics

SharonCoggins1
SharonCoggins1 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I find no place on this site to recorded my sugar to keep up with it. I'm type 2 and feel that this should also be in the diet plan. Can someone help me with this question.

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,889 Member
    Dietary sugar? Set nutrients you want to track, here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
    Or blood sugar? Use the notes section in your food diary
  • OldHobo
    OldHobo Posts: 647 Member
    Or if you are looking for a way to record your daily blood glucose test readings you can add "Blood Glucose," or anything else, to the measurements in your check-in.

    I don't track mine like this because there are better ways in my opinion but this is how I'd do it if MFP was the only tool in the box.

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  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    You could add it to the notes each day; that way it is correlated to your food and exercise. Personally, I track my bg on a separate app. I got a Bluetooth enabled monitor to make it effortless.
  • BarneyRubbleMD
    BarneyRubbleMD Posts: 1,092 Member
    I'm type-2 and log my blood sugar & insulin dosage with each meal as a "food item" so it's logged with the food I ate & put my 2hr post-meal blood sugar reading in the Notes section (my diary is public if curious). I do this so "everything" is logged in one place making it easier to make adjustments to my insulin dosages.
  • OldHobo
    OldHobo Posts: 647 Member
    Recording it in the notes makes sense. But if MFP was the only tool I had, I would also enter it daily in the check-ins for the 7 day, 30 day, 180 day and 1 year reporting and charting capabilities. Might be inclined to record blood pressure and other biometric data there as well for the same reason.

    If a person is comfortable with spreadsheets though, he could easily do all that and more with Excel or Google Sheets.
  • BarneyRubbleMD
    BarneyRubbleMD Posts: 1,092 Member
    OldHobo wrote: »
    Recording it in the notes makes sense. But if MFP was the only tool I had, I would also enter it daily in the check-ins for the 7 day, 30 day, 180 day and 1 year reporting and charting capabilities. Might be inclined to record blood pressure and other biometric data there as well for the same reason.

    If a person is comfortable with spreadsheets though, he could easily do all that and more with Excel or Google Sheets.

    That's good too--I do that weekly for my weight and daily for my morning fasting blood sugar readings--which makes for nice 180-day graph trends. The problem with spreadsheets is that the food & calorie (along with carbs, protein & fat) database isn't there & I'd end up looking back & forth between the two to better understand why my blood sugar readings went high or low.
  • OldHobo
    OldHobo Posts: 647 Member
    BarneyRubbleMD wrote: »
    That's good too--I do that weekly for my weight and daily for my morning fasting blood sugar readings--which makes for nice 180-day graph trends. The problem with spreadsheets is that the food & calorie (along with carbs, protein & fat) database isn't there & I'd end up looking back & forth between the two to better understand why my blood sugar readings went high or low.
    I think I get it. Thankfully, the morning fasting blood sugar readings are all I have to do.
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