Do you all write down your carb intake every meal?

[KritterMom]

Do you write down, on paper, or in a logbook, your carbs after you eat? Are there good logbooks that I should get to write mine down in? Talk about a silly question huh? Thanks!:ahhhhh:

[Funnygrl]

Do you write down, on paper, or in a logbook, your carbs after you eat? Are there good logbooks that I should get to write mine down in? Talk about a silly question huh? Thanks!:ahhhhh:
My pump records it if I use the bolus calculator. Then in the evening I write down carbs, blood sugars, boluses, and temp rates.

[tanyatype1]

Hi KritterMom, I began keeping a record of everything I ate when I joined WW. Keeps you honest! Plus it keeps track of how many points you've eaten that day. As for the Diabetes, keeping track of all you eat, carbs, and insulin taken will help your Pump Educator figure out how you need to program your new pump. After all that was done (for me) I STILL kept track for a few more months, mostly out of habit by now, and also because I wanted to be able to figure out things, like high and low bg's, any patterns etc. Plus, you might find that 15 carbs of bread might require more insulin than a 15 carb apple, or 15 carbs of high fat fudge. Strange but true. Keeping notes, even if just for yourself to read, will help you keep things straight. Cheers!

[kgm0612]

Kimmy...........I do the same thing Tanya does. I have a daily appointment book (5"x8") that I use as a log book. In it, I log the time, what my BS reading was, what I'm eating, how many grams of carbs, how many units I took to cover that meal or food item, and any exercise I did. I have done this from the day I was dx'd and it works great for me. My endo also has me fax a sheet of my blood sugars to him every 2 weeks. If he sees something out of the ordinary, he will call me, give me the date in question, and I can tell him what it was I ate or didn't eat to go high or low.

Also......I do not rotate my site from left side to right side of my abdomen each time I change. I stay on my left side for 6-8 changes and then go over to my right side and do the same. Then I go to my right hip & rear area and get 3-4 changes there and then do the same on my left hip & rear. By the time I get around to the left abdomen area, it's been about a month. So I will make a notation on the top of the page as to when I switched areas.

I'm happy to see you're asking a lot of questions before starting on the pump next week. You're gonna do great!

Karen

[artwoman]

I am very anal about my logging (not in anything else though!) I not only write down times, bg's, number of carb grams correction and/or boluses, I write down what the meal consists of. That way I can learn if something hrows my system out of whack. I start with the assumption that a gram of carb is not a gram of carb. I use the entire number of carbs, I don't subtract fiber etc. Once I do my postprandial if I see that I need to tweak it up or down a few gram-notches I can.

And like another poster said, having to write everything down keeps me on the straight and narrow (and helps to keep my body itself straight and narrow)

I don't use the downladed data aprraoch. I use "my Other Checkbook" desgined by John Walsh from his website The Diabetes Mall provides extensive diabetes information, the latest research findings, and great discounts on diabetes products. (http://www.diabetesmall.net). I find that other logbooks are probably designed for people with type 2 who test maybe 4x a day. I test a lot more often and Walsh's logbooks allow for that.

[sbigelow]

Calorie King has a software program I use to track my food intake. I use my pump to track BD, Carbs, & insulin. At the end of the day or week, I review to see if I need to make future adjustments.

[Cyborg]

The UltraSmart meter allows you to enter nutritional info for your meals and then download it to various software packages.

[Gordonm]

I enter it into my pump and then download my pump to the MM site. I then print off a copy and study it and then file it. I let it do all the writing down. I am not very good at writing it down so I let technology keep track of it.

[burroak]

Do you write down, on paper, or in a logbook, your carbs after you eat? Are there good logbooks that I should get to write mine down in? Talk about a silly question huh? Thanks!:ahhhhh:

Check out www.healthsoftware.hazeleger.net; it is a free download that will give you that and more. It's the most complete set of record keeping charts that I have ever seen. And it's free.

[sweetcheeks]

i dont, but i should... i dont have to use insulin so i guess its easier on us type 2's however, it could let us know what we can eat and not eat... a little better...

[grace girl]

I have an ultrasmart meter, but I found inputing insulin and carbs to be a pain with it, so I still write everything down. I keep a small notebook, and I use a page a day. Math has never been my strong point, so by writing it all down I know I'm getting it right. Plus, I've only been carb counting since July, and it's nice to look back and see how I did when I ate something last month to get an idea of if I need to make a change when I eat it this month.

[poodlebone]

I input my carbs into my UltraSmart, into my pump and into the paper log book. I really like the paper logs that you can get from Minimed. I not only write down the # of carbs, but I write down the actual food as well.