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Guides & How-Tos

Understand what your food is actually doing.

Plain-language guides on how meals move your blood sugar, what makes a rise sharper or gentler, and how to spot the patterns in your own week. New guides added regularly.

Basics5 min read

How Long After Eating Does Blood Sugar Peak?

For many people glucose rises within 15 minutes of a meal and peaks somewhere between 45 and 90 minutes — but the timing depends on what and how you ate. Here's the typical shape and what shifts it.

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Basics5 min read

Why You Feel Tired After Lunch (And What Your Meal Has to Do With It)

The post-lunch slump is common, and what you ate is often part of the story. Here's how a fast rise and fall in glucose can feel from the inside — and how to spot whether your meals are involved.

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Basics5 min read

Does the Order You Eat Food Matter? Protein and Fibre Before Carbs

Eating vegetables and protein before the starch on your plate is one of the simplest tweaks people try for a gentler glucose curve. What the idea is, what it tends to do, and how to test it yourself.

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Getting Started4 min read

How to Connect Apple Health or Health Connect to GlucoPlot

Bring in glucose readings, steps, sleep, weight and workouts automatically so they sit next to your meals. Setup for iPhone (Apple Health) and Android (Health Connect), and what each one reads.

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Getting Started4 min read

How to Back Up and Restore Your GlucoPlot Data

GlucoPlot keeps everything on your device, so a backup is how your meals, workouts and history survive a new phone or a reinstall. Manual and automatic iCloud backup on iPhone, Google's automatic backup on Android.

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Getting Started3 min read

How to Save a Meal and Log It Again in One Tap

Most of us eat the same dozen meals on repeat. Star a meal once and it lives in Saved, ready to log again in a tap — and if you measured it with a sensor, the app shows you how it went last time.

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Basics6 min read

How Food Affects Your Blood Sugar (And How to Actually See It)

Carbs, protein, fat and fibre each move your glucose differently. Here's what happens after a meal — and how to watch it happen with your own food.

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Basics5 min read

Why Blood Sugar Spikes After Eating — And What Changes It

A rise after a meal is normal. Here's what makes one sharper or gentler, why the afternoon slump often follows, and the small changes that tend to help.

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Habits4 min read

Walking After Meals: What Ten Minutes Actually Does

A short walk after eating is one of the most reliable ways to soften a post-meal glucose rise. Here's why it works, when to go, and how long is enough.

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CGM6 min read

How to Pair a CGM With a Food Log

A continuous glucose monitor shows you the curve. A food log tells you what caused it. Here's how to use both together — and why sensor readings reach Apple Health or Health Connect hours late, or not at all.

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Getting Started4 min read

How to Log a Meal From a Photo

Snap the plate and get foods, portions, macros and an estimated glucose response in seconds. Here's how it works and how to get accurate results.

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