Recording Those Numbers

Well, I'm trying to get back on track. Between the wedding, the honeymoon and trying to find a sort of rhythm to my new life as a wife, I haven't been very good about recording my glucose numbers. A few months before school let out I had finally (after how many years?) found a system I was happy with. I record my blood glucose numbers on google docs. I also use the same program to record what I eat, the insulin I took for it, etc. It was working pretty well for me. It was helpful to be able to look back and see what areas were out of my target range on a regular basis and things like that.

After the wedding, after the honeymoon, I kept putting off getting back to recording. I didn't want to try and catch up my record for several weeks. It can be tedious and the only way I stay motivated is if I do it on a regular basis. So this morning I finally decided to just start fresh, rather than putting it off even longer.

The reason I've liked using google docs so much is its on the computer. I do a lot better if I can type things into charts and such, rather than having to fill things out by hand. I set my web browsers so that google docs is my homepage. This reminds me to fill them in each time I log on. Its been a pretty good system and now that I'm starting up again, I'm sure I'll find lots of areas that I can improve. One of the hardest thing about life with diabetes is how often and quickly everything can change. You need to constantly be aware of what is going on because things that were working before stop working and you have to do something new. What a joy huh?

Anyway, so that's the message of the day. I'm back on track with recording the numbers and the daily food. (P.S. Keeping a food diary also makes you less prone to snack or eat badly... because when you know you'll have to write it down, you think 'Na, I don't really need that.')