Five ways your patients can track food in mySugr

1. Photo Function

A picture speaks a thousand words and photos of your patient's food provides them with valuable information and details so they can look back and learn from their data. Plus, they could become a carb calculating connoisseur as the Photo Function trains their eye to judge a food’s carb content. 

How to make the most out of the Photo Function, encourage your patients to:

• Make sure the entire meal is photographed. This will help them more in the long run and allow them to judge whether their carb estimation was correct. 
• Add contextual information to each photo, including location, estimated carb content, and a precise description of the meal. This way, the next time they visit their favourite restaurant, they can find it in their past entries, see exactly what they ate, how much they dosed, and whether their estimations were on target. They can also check their blood glucose trends in the graph.
• Use the same photos, so they don’t need to take a new photo every time (as long as the portions remain about the same).  They just need to make sure they have turn on the "Save photos to Photos app" setting so they can quickly select pictures from their library without having to take new ones each time.
• Add the picture AFTER eating! Log entries can be backdated, meaning they can snap a quick photo of their food and then add the photo from their photo library and describe their meal afterwards. 

2. Tags

Our mySugr app lets users create a new food log entry with handy tags! They can select between almost 50 small icons that describe different situations and emotions. These tags are there to help them understand the context of each entry better. Using the tags regularly can help them to discover patterns when using the Smart Search function.

3. Food Types 

Vegetables, fruit, dairy... If your patients want to keep an eye on what types of food they are eating, then they can easily track it with the Food type function. All they need to do is tap on the little icon with the plate on it in the mySugr app and they get a selection of different food types to choose from. 

These food labels can help them understand the context of each entry better. They can easily search for food type tags and identify patterns using the Smart Search function.

4. Notes Meal Descriptions

Encourage your patients to add contextual information to thir data by entering descriptions of meals in the text field. So they can easily find out what, where, when and why? Every log entry tells a story, and when it comes to diabetes, the more detail, the better. 

5. Save Meals

Users can save meals and find out how their blood glucose is affected. It's super handy for your patients to have their favourite meals on file, so they know exactly how they affect their blood glocuse. 

Top tip! The Smart Search Function 

The Smart Search Function in the mySugr app helps users to find important data faster. Remember those handy tags we discussed above? Users can find food they have previously tagged using the Search Function. Easily locate things like food types and specific meals by searching for specific tags.  

* mySugr app: You must be at least 18 years old to register for the Accu-Chek Account. Please see the manual for intended use.