Use Your Glucose Meter as a Tracking Tool

Tracking tools can help us to gain information and stay motivated. If you have diabetes, your glucose meter can serve as a useful tracking tool. Use your meter to track high and low blood sugars and to pattern manage. You can even use it to help you lose weight. Find out more information on how to use your meter to the fullest here.  

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us Use Your Glucose Meter as a Tracking Tool Tracking tools can help us to gain information and stay motivated. If you have diabetes, your glucose meter can serve as a useful tracking tool. Use your meter to track high and low blood sugars and to pattern manage. You can even use it to help you lose weight. Find out more information on how to use your meter to the fullest here.   Barbie Cervoni, RD, CDE Type 2 Diabetes Expert 4 Benefits of Keeping a Log Book Do you check your blood sugar every morning and see the same numbers over and over? Or perhaps you check it after dinner and it's never the same, but you just can't figure out why? Keeping a blood sugar log book can help you... READ NOW Blood Sugar Monitoring Can Help Manage Hyperglycemia Signs and symptoms of hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) include excess hunger, thirst, increased urination and fatigue. High blood sugar typically occurs because you have eaten too much carbohydrate, you do not have enough insulin, or the insulin you are making is not working properly. Elevated blood sugar means that your body is unable to use glucose for fuel. The body tries to rid the excess sugar in the urine, resulting in feelings of hunger and thirst...   READ NOW How to Prevent,Treat, and Confirm Low Blood Sugar Have you ever felt shaky, sweaty, confused, or disorientated and then ate something and felt better? Perhaps your blood sugar was low, but you wouldn't know that for sure unless you checked... READ NOW Blood Sugar Targets Self monitoring blood sugars can help patients with Type 2 diabetes on insulin or oral agents evaluate their individual response to therapy and can be used as a tool for both the person and practitioner to make changes in diet, exercise, and medicines. Studies suggest that people with diabetes who test their blood sugar may have lower HbA1c (3 month average of blood sugar)... READ NOW Featured Articles • Holidays Call for Us to Become Fitness Food Snobs • 5 Healthy Snacks with 100 Calories or Less • Why IQ Tests Can't Measure Intelligence in Nonverbal Autistic Children • 6 Things No One Tells You About PCOS • Physical Therapist Review of the TruPosture Smart Shirt for Postural Control • Sugar-Free Lemon Curd: An Easy Last Minute Gift From Your Kitchn • Is Vaginal Itching During Pregnancy Normal? • Did You Know the World Health Assembly Declared the World Free of Smallpox? Advertisement About Type 2 Diabetes  |  Follow Us You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Type 2 Diabetes newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2015 About.com - All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.