Your diabetes logbook is an invaluable tool. The information you enter helps you and your health care provider know whether your diabetes care plan is working. Logbooks also help your health care provider know when to make changes to your diabetes care plan to reduce the risk of complications. This information paints a picture of how food, exercise, medication, and ⁄or insulin affect your blood sugar results.

A Logbook Can Help Your Health Care Provider Help You

Knowing blood sugar readings, grams of carbohydrates eaten, and activity level helps your health care provider prescribe the best treatment for you.

• A well–kept logbook will capture peak times when you take medication or insulin—information that is important when developing a care plan.
• Checking and recording blood sugar readings just before a meal can help your health care provider determine whether a medication and⁄or insulin dosage is needed before that meal.
• Recording carbohydrate grams eaten throughout the day reveals whether your meal plan is effective. This information helps you plan meals and snacks — an important way to stay in control.
• Tracking exercise in a logbook helps your health care provider determine whether activity is being performed at the most optimal time of the day

What to Enter in Your Daily Diabetes Logbook

• Blood sugar readings
• Medication name(s) and dosages and⁄or insulin dosages
• Carbohydrate grams eaten
• Type and duration of exercise

• Feeling sick or having a fever
• Stressful or emotional times
• The causes of overeating or under eating, such as a party or stress
• Why you were more or less active than usual