*sigh* My endo/nurse practitioner wants me to log blood sugars. Grrrroan. She said she wants random numbers, which I can't see how in the world would actually be useful to someone. (That drives me nuts, by the way, when a doctor tells a patient to log randomly. How can you get the whole picture if the patient gives you a breakfast reading one day, a bedtime reading the next? But I digress.)
So I printed out more of my home-made log sheets, three-hold punched them and put them with my other half-filled out log sheets in the pretty pink three-ring binder I bought probably close to two years ago during my last I'm-serious-about-logging attempt.
I'm not good at logging. I've said it here a number of times. I am really good about writing down meals and blood sugars for about half a day and by the time afternoon and evening roll around I've thrown in the towel. That pink notebook I have is full of log sheets with breakfast information, breakfast and lunch information, and small notes about anything significant that may have happened that day. But very little useful information from a whole day.
I'm a deadline person. If you give me an assignment and a deadline I'm on it like white on rice. It's why I keep saying I haven't written The Great American Novel... no one has given me a deadline yet. Deadlines equal accountability.
I've also said for a long while that if I had someone to fax my log sheets to -- even if they didn't bother to look at them -- I'd be more likely to actually log.
While working from home on Wednesday I had my notebook open in front of me to a blank log sheet. I found it easy to record what I was eating and my blood sugars for the entire day. Yes! The entire day! Today at work, I opened the notebook to a blank log sheet and kept it on the desk next to me. I recorded my whole day.
Is it really that easy this time? Just keep the darn notebook open? Or is it the fact that I know my endo/nurse practitioner will grill me about it at my next appointment. Maybe a combination? Whatever it is, it's working.
