Re: Tracking Log? School Lunches?

[Guest guest]

Sharol,

I don't have a log but have used the pain scale[1-10] to keep track of

'behavior'. 8-9 means close to seizure for us. anything above 1-2[mellow] makes

me look at changes in diet/supps as that is what really affects my daughter.

Almost 99% of the time I can find an offending item and usually one she has

taken/bought w/o permission.

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> Does anyone have a good tracking log?

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> I want to start tracking behavior, diet, sleep etc.

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> So that I can see what changes and improvements we see.

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> I thought I would bring up something interesting. We started the school

> year with my son BRINGING lunches.

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> Then we let him start buying school lunch. We noticed he was more

> emotional, and hyper. We really struggled with him getting his homework

> done etc.

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> Then it dawned on me the only thing that we changed was his lunch schedule.

> So I changed him back to HOME lunches.

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> Which he likes 100% stone ground whole wheat bread with Nutella... 100%

> fruit juice, real fruit.

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[Guest guest]

I made up a custom sheet on Excel one page for each day (dated with

month/day/year) - a graph of all my kid's supps (with a few blank spaces for

add-ins or once in awhile things) down the side, and a space to type or write in

the dosages. Then spaces across for the 4x per day we gave supps. (breakfast,

lunch, dinner, bedtime).

Then I could use that grid to make a graph. I'd use a highlighter to mark when

my kid should have supps, and then when they were given, we checked them off (as

mixed). That way I could keep track of EVERYTHING going in, when we started and

stopped stuff, etc. And, if I was working or taking a sanity break, hubby could

just look at what was highlighted at the appointed time, and it the dosages were

all there, and he could mix stuff up and give it on his own.

Also at the top corner of each page, I had space for which round we were on, and

dosage, as well as how it was mixed and along the side of my supp graph, a time

chart for when next dose of chelation was due and to check off when given. That

way, hubby or my mom if she was over to help, could look and see when next dose

was due, and when round would end, etc.

On the backside of the page, I had space broken up into 4 sections for " morning,

afternoon, evening, bedtime/sleep " . EVERYthing else got put there: food log,

behaviors, stims, what therapies he had, if anyone visited, if anything of note

occured, any treatments like NAET or energy work, rashes, sleep habits, poops,

sensory issues, if he was really having a good day, or an awful day, any

progress, etc.

I had a way to always look at what may or may not be contributing to my son's

improvement or worsening. When things started, or cleared up, how he responded

to therapies, treatments, supps, foods, certain people, even the weather or how

much activity he got. It was simply a matter of studying the data and seeing the

patterns.

I spent hours with those charts and notes.

Completely worth it!

>

> Does anyone have a good tracking log?

>

> I want to start tracking behavior, diet, sleep etc.

>

> So that I can see what changes and improvements we see.

>

>

>

> I thought I would bring up something interesting. We started the school

> year with my son BRINGING lunches.

>

> Then we let him start buying school lunch. We noticed he was more

> emotional, and hyper. We really struggled with him getting his homework

> done etc.

>

> Then it dawned on me the only thing that we changed was his lunch schedule.

> So I changed him back to HOME lunches.

>

> Which he likes 100% stone ground whole wheat bread with Nutella... 100%

> fruit juice, real fruit.

>

>

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[Guest guest]

I don't know if this meets your need, but here is something I recently posted to

a small group I own:

Not anything I have used. Just tripped across them. Kids Abacus does

not appear to be a math site. It appears to be the same kind of thing

as the first one: A behavior tracking tool.

http://jeff.io/posts/star-chart-app-for-kids

http://kidsabacus.com/

Whoops. That first link is just a blog announcement. Here is the actual site:

http://starchart.me/

And an i-phone app with a similar purpose:

http://starchart.me/

Michele

http://www.healthgazelle.com

http://www.kidslikemine.com

http://www.solanorail.com

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> Does anyone have a good tracking log?

>

> I want to start tracking behavior, diet, sleep etc.

>

> So that I can see what changes and improvements we see.

>

>

>

> I thought I would bring up something interesting. We started the school

> year with my son BRINGING lunches.

>

> Then we let him start buying school lunch. We noticed he was more

> emotional, and hyper. We really struggled with him getting his homework

> done etc.

>

> Then it dawned on me the only thing that we changed was his lunch schedule.

> So I changed him back to HOME lunches.

>

> Which he likes 100% stone ground whole wheat bread with Nutella... 100%

> fruit juice, real fruit.

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