Glucose Guide

06/01/2026

Gigi’s got some improvements! We’ve focused on making the app smarter, more visually beautiful, and much easier to navigate.

Here’s a summary of the big improvements we rolled out in the last week!

🌟 Smarter Insights & Motivation
Daily Overview (Premium): We launched a brand-new “Daily Overview” tab in your logbook. It gives you AI-powered reflections on your day, lifestyle tips from Coach Mila, and visual charts for your glucose and macros. It’s designed to help you spot patterns you might have missed!

Nightly Nudges: GiGi now sends a gentle notification every evening. If you’ve logged data, it invites you to see your insights; if you’ve been away, it gives you a friendly nudge to log a meal or reading.

Daily Journal: You can now add private notes and reflections to your day directly inside the logbook. It’s a great way to track how you were feeling alongside your data.

🍽️ Refined Diabetes Tools
Dynamic Plate Method: We completely redesigned the Plate Method graphics. They feature smooth animations, and have a “Watch the Extras” reminder for sauces and dressings to help catch those hidden carbs.

You can use Gigi on iOS, Google Play and in your web browser. Our basic features like barcode scanning and community are always free. Our more advanced tools are “pay what you can” starting at $5, and it’s a tax deductible donation helping us provide nutrition counseling to all.

05/23/2026

Gigi has been a helpful guide in our community for quite some time. Whether you have a question about diabetes, you need an uplifting note (sometimes we just need to be told we’re awesome), or you want to walk through your patterns, Gigi is available 24/7, and free to all members of the community. You can also ask Coach Mila to pop into a chat anytime for some 1:1 guidance when you need it.

05/22/2026

Grabbed a mango tea while walking around the grocery store. Scanned it, and as always, GiGi was a gentle angel, helping with pairings, considerations, and highlighting the positives and considerations of the choice. It’s just how we move. There’s no shame in food choices, but we always want to be honest about the impact of foods, and how they work for the goals that you set.

Give us a try if you want to learn more about how different foods impact your blood sugars directly. No judgement, supportive community and just learning together 📲 heygigi.app

05/18/2026

You’ll catch us snacking on these this week! We made a version during Passover with Matzoh, and it was incredible. We redid this version without the Matzoh crackle, and it’s pretty magical.

This little chocolate peanut crunch bar is available in Gigi’s meal plan this week, and it’s added to the community’s recipe library. Sign in, check your dashboard and Notification Center, and get all of the goodness. Link in our bio to join our free community ✨.

05/12/2026

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves. 👋🏾👋🏾

Glucose Guide was created because nutrition education and diabetes support shouldn’t only be available to people with money, privilege, or access to expensive care. 💛

As a nonprofit, we launched Glucose Guide App three years ago to help people feel more confident about food, blood sugar, and daily health decisions — without shame, fear, or overwhelm.

We believe health equity means:
🥗 Making nutrition education easier to understand
📱 Giving people tools they can actually use in real life
🤝 Creating community support that feels human
🩺 Helping people feel informed, not judged

Whether you’re newly diagnosed, burned out, managing multiple conditions, caring for someone you love, or just trying to figure out what works for your body — you deserve support that meets you where you are, without judgement, and with confetti along the way 🎊

Inside Glucose Guide, you’ll find:
✨ Meal planning tools
✨ Blood sugar tracking
✨ Nutrition insights
✨ Grocery support
✨ Community encouragement
✨ Coaching and education designed by people who actually get it

This isn’t about perfection. It’s about support, sustainability, and helping people feel less alone while managing their health.

If you’ve been looking for a diabetes and nutrition app built with empathy, accessibility, and community at the center, we’d love for you to give Glucose Guide a try. 💫

🔗 Download and explore the app today — App Store, Google Play, or heygigi.app 🫶🏾

04/14/2026

That morning protein shake will surprise you, (literally in the best ways).

A protein shake can be a great option — but not every shake is built the same.

A protein shake can absolutely be a helpful meal option when you have diabetes — especially on busy days when sitting down for a full meal just is not happening.

But here's the catch: not every protein shake is created with blood sugar in mind. It helps to check the label for things like total carbs, added sugar, protein, fiber, and portion size so you know what you are actually drinking.

Glucose Guide helps you make that decision faster by letting you scan packaged foods and get a clearer picture of what may work better for your body.

With Glucose Guide, you can scan packaged foods and get a faster look at carbs and blood sugar impact so you can make more confident choices without standing in the aisle doing mental math and questioning your entire existence.

Download Glucose Guide today and start scanning your foods before they catch you off guard.

04/14/2026

04/08/2026

If you're living with diabetes, you already know it's not just about "watching your sugar." It's meals, meds, patterns, stress, grocery shopping, remembering what worked last time, and trying to make sense of numbers that don't always behave.

That's exactly why Glucose Guide exists.

Glucose Guide helps you track your food, log your glucose, understand how meals may affect your blood sugar, build balanced meal plans, analyze recipes, create grocery lists, and actually spot patterns in one place. It's not just another food app — it's a diabetes support tool built to help you make more confident decisions without guessing all day.

It also includes nutrition insights, blood sugar tracking, medication logging, habit support, community, and coaching tools so you can connect the dots between what you eat, how you feel, and what your body is telling you.

And the best part? You do not need a CGM, a perfectly color-coded fridge, or a "clean eating" personality to use it. You just need support that makes diabetes feel a little less overwhelming and a lot more doable.

If you've been wanting help with food, blood sugars, meal ideas, and daily consistency, Glucose Guide was made for you.

What food should we do next?

04/06/2026

Steady blood sugars do not have to start with boring food.

This week's Diabetes Meal Plan is packed with simple, satisfying meals that actually make sense for real life — think ginger-lime chicken with sweet potatoes and broccoli, seared tuna salad with avocado, and protein-packed breakfasts that help you feel full instead of fighting for your life by 10 a.m.

If meal planning usually feels overwhelming, this is your reminder that it can also feel supportive, flexible, and a whole lot easier when the meals are built to work with your body, and we do it for you every week. You can use it as inspo, or take all of the suggestions.

Check out this week's plan and grab some ideas you can actually use. Your blood sugar — and your future hangry self — might be very into it.

02/25/2026

As important as blood sugar balance is to our overall health, our culture, preferences, and our joy matters just as much.

As a health coach and nutritionist, my job isn’t to hand you a list of “good” and “bad” foods and walk away. It’s to teach you how to think about food—how to read your body, notice patterns, and build strategies that actually fit your life.

We work on things like:
• pairing carbs with protein and fiber, and thinking through logical swaps
• timing meals and movement
• understanding your glucose data without judgment
• learning what your body responds to
• making choices that feel confident, not restrictive

Together, we build flexibility + self-trust.

You deserve tools.
You deserve context.
You deserve joy at the table.

And yes—you can care about your A1C and your family recipes. Both matter.

Today on HangryWoman.com and GlucoseGuide.app, we’re talking about carb balance. Check it out on either, and don’t forget to download the app for the diabetes food journal.

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