How to Keep a Food Journal for Diabetes

When you are diabetic it is important to keep your blood sugar levels even throughout the day. An easy way to do this is to eat a healthy diet that will keep your blood sugar levels even. To a follow a healthy diet to control your diabetes it is best to keep a food journal. Follow these simple instructions to keep a food journal for your diabetes.

Things You'll Need

• 1 notepad
• 1 pen
• 1 wristwatch

Instructions

Its Time to Control Your Diabetes with a Food Journal

1. Write down everything you eat in a meal in your food journal. Include amounts of each item. Remember to list any condiments that you use. This attention to detail will help to control your diabetes with this food journal.

2. List the time of day that you ate the meal. This will help the food journal to note any daytime specific spikes in your blood sugar that may affect your diabetes.

3. Write down any snacks that you have in between meals in your food journal for diabetes. Everything that goes into your mouth can affect your diabetes.

4. Write down in your food journal for diabetes when you take your diabetes medication. This will show you how the medication also affects your diabetes.

Tips & Warnings

• Use the food journal for diabetes to self monitor any spikes or drops in your blood sugar from day to day. See how simple changes to a healthy diabetes diet can make you healthier.

• Take your diabetes food journal to your doctor's appointment so that you can discuss what foods you have eaten and what they may have done with your diabetes.

• If you do not include everything that you eat and drink in your diabetes food journal, then keeping one is a waste. It will not give you an accurate picture of your healthy diabetes diet and its affect on your health.