This is the one with a diabetes update.
I started seeing a new doctor that I found on twitter. Kinda strange, right? But she just opened a practice that is pretty dedicated to diabetes-management, and she’s local. Her website is here: http://www.diabevita.com
This new doctor’s approach to diabetes-management is slightly controversial. My doctor follows the philosophy of Dr. Richard Bernstein who is known for suggesting ultra-low carb eating for diabetics…which means 6g carbs for breakfast and 12g for lunch and 12g for dinner (versus the American Diabetes Association’s 30g per meal).
Day one was excruciating. I ate close to ZERO grams of carbohydrates. I skipped my morning coffee (the whole milk I use is too high in carbs). I had a huge headache. I was cranky. It was just miserable.
But day two was easier. Today is day three, and it feels pretty good so far.
And now for the nerdy part. I am going to start storing my blood glucose levels in a spreadsheet that is saved on Google Documents. And I created a Form that looks like this:
And then I embedded it into an .html file on my webpage…so I can easily enter my glucose levels and have them save to a spreadsheet that I will print out and bring to the doctor’s office.
This is what the results look like:
If you own your own website and want help doing this, hit me up. I’ll help you out. If you don’t own your own website, but want me to set one up for you here, let me know.
September 14th, 2009 at 10:02 am
I was going to ask you about Google Doc forms. Nice use of their technology.
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September 15th, 2009 at 7:59 am
I like the look of the form you made – real nice and clean, and it seems it will be easy for you to use.
I’m interested to hear how you like the Bernstein thing after a while. I enjoyed his book, learned a lot, but just can’t do the diet thing right now. It’s hard to argue the man’s results though!
Keep us posted.