Learn to Test Your Glucose

Here’s everything you need to learn to quickly and easily test your blood sugar: How to use a glucose meter, how to track your reactions to food, and what your test results mean.

Before you begin testing, watch the videos below and become familiar with the tracking forms you’ll use to record your results.

Action Plan

Get a blood glucose meter.

Details about this are located in the welcome section and your handbook. I reviewed over a dozen meters and created a chart to streamline your shopping or a meter.

Learn how to measure your own blood glucose.

Testing your blood glucose is the ultimate way to determine what’s really happening inside your body in response to food and lifestyle habits. It’s not hard to do, once you get the hang of it.

In this video, I show you how to use your glucose meter to measure your blood glucose, and share my evaluation of several meters. Watch the part at the beginning where I demonstrate how to test, a few times if need be, until you feel comfortable enough to try it yourself. Soon you will be breezing through it.

Glucose Testing Demo and Meter Review

Learn to track your blood glucose using your Glucose Tracking Chart

Decide if you want to use the simple glucose tracking chart shown in the video or track your symptoms completely using the full version of the glucose tracking chart.

NOTE: If you're not testing your blood glucose, use the detailed tracking chart and focus on tracking the symptom components.

Glucose Tracking Chart Demo

Print the PDF or download the Google file and start recording every time you test your blood sugar.

For the Nutrition Geek: Learn to interpret your glucose and insulin pattern results

This video is advanced, and intended for those who like to know all the technical details about how their body works. Watch the video below if you’d like to learn how to interpret your “Glucose Tracking Chart” and understand the relationship between glucose, insulin, and what you eat.

Understanding Glucose and Insulin Patterns

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