Food Diaries, Track Keeping, Logging and Blogging :)

I have been listening intently to other diabetics for a while now, and something has come to my ttention that quite a few of us (admittedly, myself included) seem to have issues with.

See, we can wake up, and do god knows how many injections and jabs and blood sugars every day. We can watch where our blood sugars are going. We have learnt how to count carbohydrates like its a well known language to us, and we can instantly work out the insulin accomodations. What we dont like doing, is writing all of this stuff down!

Without dressing it up in any sort of fancy language, its boring. Who wants to spend each and every day writing down- "Blood Sugar before breakfast-6.3. A bowl of coco-pops. 6 units on a 3:1 ratio. Blood sugar an hour after breakfast- 7.1". It's tedious.

I have said before, and I maintain, I'm not writing this to tell anyone what to do or how to live their lives with diabetes. Not even my doctors do that with me, and I arent prepared to be a hypocrite. If I was a perfect diabetic, I'd have room to talk, but I'm not and I never will be. I can tell you now, that I have as much problems with logging as the lot of you. I dont do it half the time, and even when I do do it, I forget to take it. Luckily for me, the last time I was at the hospital the lovely lady had a wonderful machine, that linked up to my blood glucose moniter, and printed off all of my readings. That for me was perfect, though they still didnt have my dosages or anything. The doctors dont get mad, because they understand what this is like, they understand how boring it is to have to write down all of this every day, and they can encourage us to do it, but they cant, nor do I think they ever will or want to, force us into doing it.

I guess the reason that I wrote this seemingly pointless post, is to remind you that we're all the same. We have have issues with the same (or at least similar) things in diabetes. And it isnt the end of the world if you go to the hospital without a food diary (sorry doctors but it isnt).Obviously its helpful, but dont stress yourself majorly over it, just keep checking your blood sugars and taking care of yourself as best you can. Only you can tell you how to live, because its your life.

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