Diabetes Grading Scale

When you're evaluating your diabetes management plan, don't use the common measures for success. Here is a grading scale that might help you get a better idea of where you are.

Here's the grading scale.  You can use this grading scale to measure your progress.  If you'll notice all of the grades are positive.  Living with diabetes can be rough at times so the fact that you're reading these grades means you're thinking about your diabetes today.  Just thinking about what you need to do is a move in the right direction.
 

S - (S)ticking with it.  It's hard at times but I"m following my  mealplans the best I can and I'm exercising at least three days a week.  I'm also testing my blood glucose levels and keeping track of them in a journal (notebook, blood glucose record book, etc...)

E - (E)ffort.  I'm getting my diabetes management plan set up.  I'll start buying the foods that I need for my mealplans.  I'm exercising at least once a week and I'll try to do more.

R - Ready to start!..:)  I haven't been doing much to try to get my diabetes in better control but I'm ready to give it a try.

T- (T)hinking about what I have to do to get my diabetes management plan in order.  I'm going to start gaining some knowledge about diabetes so I can help myself live a better life.