The cold, hard logbookin’ truth!
Its that time again! My endo appointment is coming up on Monday, so I’ve started everyone’s favorite task: keeping a logbook. Yep, it’s totally annoying, incredibly mundane, but utterly awesome all at the same time. For years, I’ve always kept a week-long logbook in the days leading up to my endo appointment. I write down all my food, insulin, BGs, exercise and any extra notes, like if I’m stressed, changed my basals, or feeling under the weather.
I”ve blogged many times about how invaluable this task is to me. Every time I do a logbook, I see patterns and details that I hadn’t noticed before, and it always helps me zero in on better control. But one thing I have not mentioned about logging in the past is how great it is at pointing the obvious. Let me explain.
We all get down in the weeds when we’re trying to tighten up control. We start tweaking a basal here, changing a carb ratio there. You know, the finer points of diabetes management. But sometimes, an explanation for something that was totally driving us up the wall ends up right there, on paper, right in front of your face. For me this time around, it was the obnoxious high blood sugar I had on Tuesday that ruined my night of sleep. I had started to blame the general nonsensical ridiculousness that is diabetes until I filled in the blanks in my logbook. And there it was.
I’d had almost a cup of blueberries after dinner, casually chomping away while watching TV and just…didn’t bolus for them. Yes, Captain Obvious, that might be EXACTLY the reason you had a high BG at bedtime that plagued you through the night. It wasn’t the crazy, unpredictable nature of diabetes on this one. It was just a cup of blueberries that you didn’t bother to notice or bolus for until you had to come clean on the logbook.
Logbooks: good for the detailed, the obvious, and the cold hard truth. I highly recommended ’em!
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