I think a few people here are already doing this. I would love input on weather you think it is a good idea to track your carb intack on an iphone. If you have a better idea, I would love to hear it. This is my plan, get an IPhone install Calorie Tracker
***The LIVESTRONG.COM Calorie Tracker application is the companion tool to The Daily Plate service, available for $2.99 at the iPhone App Store. The Daily Plate at LIVESTRONG.COM helps you determine a daily calorie target based on your weight and weight goal. Then you can search the extensive database of more than 525,000 foods for nutritional information including fat, sugar, carbohydrates, cholesterol and more. You can also search 2,000 fitness items and calculate how many calories you can burn with those activities. With a simple tap, you can track how many calories you can consume, burn and net on a daily basis.
This is all fine and good, but I was wondering if there were MORE apps out there that would help me with my management. I found the two below in the forums, anyone have any other cool ones?
***For the iPhone, until something better comes along there is a program named “Diet” which is similar to the USDA database, but costs $4.99. It lists 7,250 food items. I used this to replace the USDA database.
***There is also the free “Restaurant Nutrition” app, which gives nutrition info for fast food and chain restaurants and it $4.99 counterpart “Mint Nutrition” which includes a calculating function.
you have to be a current OneTouch Ping system user to take advantage of this app, so that cuts out a lot of people. Still, kudos to Lifescan for moving in this direction. Looks like they’re the first, but certainly won’t be the last. From Engadget’s live-blog: “A cool idea, but we’d like to see just a small dock connector that functions as the finger pricking device. Are we asking too much?”
Of course, I would recommend our App Glucose Buddy. And you might want to check out my blog dedicated to this very subject “iPhone Diabetes Technology” http://glucosebuddy.blogspot.com
Also, LifeScan DOES NOT have an app. That was a protocol and was not a working model and is certainly not commercialized.
Also, take a look at our Glucose Buddy fan page on Facebook for videos and pictures of other Apps on the iPhone.
Me too Kevin. For now I plan to use an EXCEL spreadsheet in my Blackberry Bold. Just got my blackberry and I will start with the blood glucose chart template available in EXCEL and change the design so it fits my needs.
I have been using glucose buddy off and on for the past few days that I have had my new ipod touch, and the one suggestion I would make is the ability to import data - I agree with the comment by Terry (on this or another similar thread) that once you have the digital information, I hate to reenter it in another prgoram. I can export the data uploaded from my minimed pump, and if I could import that into my Glucose buddy files that would make the program more helpful for me personally, until we we can bring the data directly into the iphone/ipod touch…
That would be me, Dan. If there’s a Glucose Buddy wish list it’s this:
Allow users to import data. For instance, as Dan suggests, I could dump my data from my Minimed, which already has my BG readings and my Carb intake, then import it into Glucose Buddy. How cool would that be, short of directly beaming the data to Glucose Buddy.
Did you know that the winning entry in the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge was an iPhone app for diabetes? Well, more than that, actually – it’s a full system to turn the iPhone into your main diabetes device. Please see LifeCase & LifeApp at:
A spreadsheet is yet another way to track your blood glucose readings, insulin dosages and ratio, carbohydrates grams, and exercise. To view it you need to have Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice at http://www.openoffice.org/. Not only is OpenOffice free, but it is also available on Macintosh and Linux platforms in addition to Microsoft Windows.
Kenneth A. Carrasco has developed a comprehensive spreadsheet that is set up for people who are attempting to get extreme control of their glucose level and are willing to test up to 10 to 12 times a day for several weeks so that tracking their levels becomes second nature. His form includes tracking exercise, hours slept, blood pressure, and weight, and is easily modifiable. It’s set up for people who will (hopefully) test before and after eating to determine which foods (and how much) affect their glucose levels. Ken used it to drop his A1C from 5.9 to 5.2 in three months along with losing about 25 pounds. Ken kindly authorized me to make his spreadsheet available here. The URL is
Christina Davis gives us the spreadsheet she developed for using her new continuous glucose monitor. “I recently started on a CGM and became very frustrated with the lack of data management options/software,” she writes. “I have all this new data and no good or intuitive way to manage it, and easily enter my own data. So I created a pretty nifty Excel file with a table and graph that I think is visually intuitive. I wanted a graph that showed a downward influence on my BG from insulin delivered, and upward influence from carbs, and that also was able to distinguish between pure carbs and mixed carbs/fat/protein. So I came up with this and thought I would send it to you for you to share with everyone, since I spent a ton of time on it and also on your website investigating my various options. It’s in Excel format. I tried opening it in OpenOffice and it sort of works but the chart gets really distorted.” It is available at http://www.mendosa.com/cgm_spreadsheet.xls
Not sure this is really what you were looking for but I've developed this web app to help with my own insulin and carbohydrate calculations. I created a version that anyone can use because so many people wanted to know where I got it and wanted to know if they could use it too. I designed it to run on my iPhone so it might be useful.
It is hosted on a free web server so there are a couple of adds at the top and bottom of the page and a small popup window that can be a little annoying when the page is loaded for the first time but it is a great little app that I use every day.
