Saxenda is liraglutide, given as an injection every day and licensed for weight management. EMA's product information describes it as an injection given under the skin once per day, used alongside diet and increased physical activity, and MedlinePlus similarly describes liraglutide injection as given once a day at around the same time each day. For a tracking record, the cadence is not a detail. It is the whole design constraint.

Thirty-odd entries a month is a different problem from four. The failure mode is not forgetting to record something interesting; it is abandoning the record entirely in week five because each entry asks for more than the moment allows. So the useful question for this medicine is not what would be good to capture, but what is small enough that you will still be doing it in month three and detailed enough to be worth reading then.

The smallest entry that still works

One line. A date, a rough time, and a mark for whether it happened. That is a complete entry on an ordinary day, and most days are ordinary. A record made of a hundred such lines is not thin — it is the only version of this record that survives long enough to show anything.

  • The date
  • Roughly what time, to the nearest convenient half hour rather than the minute
  • Whether it happened, marked in a way you can scan down a column
  • Nothing else, unless the day was an exception

The scannability matters more than it sounds. A column you can run your eye down shows a gap immediately; a page of sentences hides one. GOV.UK makes the general point that medicines in this class differ in how they are used and should be taken according to the instructions given for that specific product, and this page keeps to recordkeeping for exactly that reason: what time you take it, and what to do about a day that did not go to plan, are questions for your leaflet and prescriber, not for a tracking page.

The exceptions carry the value

Everything worth reading later lives in the second column, and it is only filled in when something was different. A missed day. A day recorded much later or much earlier than usual. Travel, illness, a shift change, an empty pen, a prescription that had not arrived. A symptom worth noting.

That distinction — between a day that varied and a day that did not happen — is the single most useful thing this record can preserve, and it is almost impossible to recover from memory a month later. A page of ticks with four annotated exceptions tells a prescriber far more than a general impression that things have mostly gone to plan, and it takes less effort to produce.

MedlinePlus describes this class of medicine as acting on hormone pathways involved in appetite and digestion, which is why appetite, fullness, and digestive symptoms are the categories most people end up wanting a place for. Keep those in the exceptions column too, dated, in a few words, with a note if a symptom actually changed something practical about the day.

Sites accumulate faster here

Because the injection happens every day, the skin sees far more punctures over a month than it would with a medicine used less often, and a pattern of sites that seemed fine over a few days can look quite different across thirty. Noting the general area used, as part of that same one-line entry, gives you an accurate account of where the injections have actually gone, if you move between sites at all, rather than a general impression formed later.

If something at a site looks or feels different, that is an exception: what you saw, roughly how big, and how long it lasted. This page describes no rotation scheme and no technique, both of which belong to the leaflet in your pack and to the person who prescribed it.

The monthly read-back

Thirty lines are data; reading them is what makes them a record. Once a month, spend a few minutes looking at the whole page instead of the latest entry. Slips tend to cluster — weekends, particular weeks at work, periods of travel — and clusters are visible at a month's distance and invisible from inside a single day. That read-back is also when to notice a supply running short and write down the questions you want to ask.

NHS England describes weight management injections as provided within specialist services with defined review arrangements, so there is usually a scheduled conversation this record is heading towards. Arriving with a page of dated entries and four honest exceptions makes that conversation specific in a way that a general account of how things have been going cannot.

Weight and simple measurements belong in the same place, but at their own, much slower cadence: recorded consistently, compared against a dated starting point, and read as a trend rather than as a series of verdicts. This page states no expected pace or amount of change and gives you nothing to measure yourself against beyond your own earlier entries. FDA also advises keeping a current list of all your medicines and supplements and bringing it to appointments, which sits naturally at the front of the same notebook or file.

What a record cannot do

It cannot tell you whether treatment is working, whether a symptom was caused by the medicine, or what to do about a day that was missed. Those belong to your prescriber, your pharmacist, and the leaflet in your pack. And anything severe or worsening quickly — abdominal pain that persists, vomiting that leaves you unable to hold fluids down, or signs of a serious allergic reaction — needs medical help promptly rather than a careful entry to be reviewed at the end of the month.