GLP-1 Shot Tracker — Log Weekly Doses, Sites and Reminders

It's Sunday evening, the pen is in the fridge door, and you're fairly sure you took last week's shot on Sunday too. Or was it Monday, after the late dinner? Once-a-week habits are strangely slippery. A daily pill gets anchored to your toothbrush; a weekly shot has six days to drift out of mind.

That's the whole case for a shot tracker. Not gamified streaks — just a reliable answer to "when, how much, and where" every single week.

Why is a weekly shot so easy to lose track of?

Because seven days is long enough to forget and short enough to feel routine. Travel, a bad week, or a dose change can all blur which day you last injected.

The labels make the details matter. The Wegovy label says that if a missed dose is more than 2 days away from your next one, you take it as soon as possible; if it's less than 2 days away, you skip it. The Zepbound label uses a different window — take it within 4 days of the missed day, otherwise skip it. Those rules only help if you know exactly when your last shot was.

What does a good shot log actually record?

Four things, every time:

What	Why it helps
Date and time	Answers "did I take it?" and anchors missed-dose decisions
Dose in mg	Shows where you are in the escalation schedule
Injection site	The labels say to rotate sites with each dose
How you felt after	Lets you see whether side effects follow dose days

The first three take seconds. The fourth is where the value builds. A note like "queasy Tuesday, fine by Thursday" means little on its own. Twelve weeks of them, lined up against dose steps, tell a story.

Do I really need to track injection sites?

Yes, and the label is plain about it. The Wegovy Medication Guide says to change your injection site with each injection and not use the same site each time. The Zepbound Medication Guide says the same about each weekly injection. Both list the stomach area, thigh and upper arm.

You can stay in the same body area week to week — the Wegovy pen instructions say that's fine — as long as the exact spot moves. That's hard to remember without writing it down, especially when you're using the left and right sides of your stomach.

We cover the details on our injection sites guide.

Should a reminder go off on shot day, or the day before?

Both, if you like. A day-before nudge gives you time to check the pen is in the fridge and you have a fresh needle. A shot-day reminder at the time you usually inject keeps the habit steady.

What matters more than timing is that the reminder clears once you log the dose. A reminder that keeps nagging after you've already taken your shot is how people end up second-guessing whether they took it.

How does a shot log help at appointments?

Prescribers make dose decisions partly on how you've tolerated the current dose. "It's been fine, mostly" is hard to act on. A log that shows "dose stepped up on the 4th, nausea on days 2 and 3 for two weeks, then settled" is something they can work with.

It also helps when something seems off. If you've had more side effects than usual, a clean record makes it easier to see whether you missed a dose, changed sites, or moved your shot day.

What we'd track

If you only log a few things, make it these:

1. Each dose, the moment you take it. Date, time and mg. Logging right away is what makes the record trustworthy.
2. The site, down to the side. "Stomach, left" rather than "stomach." Rotation only works if you know where you were last.
3. Two or three days of how you feel. A quick rating for nausea, appetite and energy after each shot shows how you're adjusting.
4. Any change to the routine. Missed doses, a moved shot day, a new pen strength. These are the first things your prescriber will ask about.

Holt logs each shot with its dose and injection site, suggests the next spot in your rotation, and reminds you when the next one is due. On iPhone, a Live Activity keeps your shot visible on the lock screen, and the side-effect log sits next to your dose days so patterns are easy to spot.

Log your next shot in Holt

When it's time for an appointment, the doctor-visit report pulls your doses, sites and symptoms into one page, so you're not scrolling back through weeks of notes in the waiting room.