[Logging] Time ranges for meal logs
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Levels Health
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Appreciate this request! The best way to extend your meal or glucose response window is to either add a note or duplicate the log.
For example, if you're sipping coffee for 4 hours, you could log ½ a cup of coffee at 8am and then ½ cup of coffee at 10am and it will extend your response window without impacting your macros.
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Tuna Ertemalp
Levels Health This is an unfortunate way of closing this request. When one goes out to eat a lengthy dinner, it'd be much easier to enter a meal or note starting at, say, 6:30pm, and then modify the end of it to, say, 10pm, and have the software do the right thing, instead of entering a dummy note at 10pm and also more dummies inbetween to make it one block of meal period. Just not elegant.
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[Logging] Guidance on accurately logging long meals
Xiao Jianqiang
This is a question rather than tequest. My meals are long especially for the days with only one meal. What's the proper way to log the meal or record theeal time for this situation? What I have seen is spikes occur in the middle of the meal. To calculate the impact on glucose correctly and hence get a more meaningful score, should I log when I start, when I finish, or somewhere in the middle? Or should I log each individual food rather than lumping them into one meal? Thanks!
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[Logging] Adjust 'meal duration' | Be able to input time I finish eating
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Cosima Travis
Feedback:
- I want to optionally input not only the time I started eating, but the time I finished eating. Perhaps there's a correlation for some users between how quickly they eat and how their blood sugar reacts.
Levels Health
Xiao Jianqiang We'd recommend logging your meal right when you start eating it! The Levels app automatically creates a two hour meal response window. If you're meals are taking longer to consume, you could try breaking down into sub-meals, where you log the times you're eating each item, such as Coffee with Cream at 10am and Eggs at 10:30am.
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Armin Torres
For additional input, I log everything at the start and the spike is typically 43 minutes later. I believe the levels app creates a 2 hour window for meals.
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Rebecca Schulman
Armin Torres I believe you can actually adjust this window… at least you could at one point a few updates ago… not sure if that carried over through some of the new updates.
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[Trends] Meal times in my data
Chas Setchell
Would like to be able to track meal times as a data point to know if you start to change or drift safe for example if you’re intermittent fasting or not so if you are eating at 10 AM and then you start eating at 8 AM you should be able to see when you made that change
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Rebecca Schulman
I’be requested this too
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Cosima Travis
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meal duration
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Rebecca Schulman
Consider adding an option for a start and end time for meals, like activities.
Meals aren't usually instantaneously consumed, but it's a particularly notable issue for me with things like my coffee/collagen and isopure drinks, which I may consume sometimes over an extended period (even a couple of hours). This makes the cgm data related to the intake a little deceptive.
I imagine others sometimes drink the same cup of coffee (etc.) over an extended period, so this has to be something that would be useful for others as well.