Tips and tricks to this madness that is GD.
Living with my diabetic brother for 13 years really has given me a leg up on controlling gestational diabetes. I instinctively know a ton about carbs, portion control, and nono zones. This makes me lucky in my unlucky state. I'm not starting from square one. More like square 8. I check my sugar levels 4 times a day, everyday. And write them down... Along with exactly what I ate that day, how much exercise I did, and a kick count for baby A. I'm a really really horrible snacker. I never do. Every time my nurse calls to go over my numbers each week she mentions adding more snacks. Personally I don’t really get hungry between meals, I blame my kabillion hours of sleep. A normal day goes like this food wise...
Living with my diabetic brother for 13 years really has given me a leg up on controlling gestational diabetes. I instinctively know a ton about carbs, portion control, and nono zones. This makes me lucky in my unlucky state. I'm not starting from square one. More like square 8. I check my sugar levels 4 times a day, everyday. And write them down... Along with exactly what I ate that day, how much exercise I did, and a kick count for baby A. I'm a really really horrible snacker. I never do. Every time my nurse calls to go over my numbers each week she mentions adding more snacks. Personally I don’t really get hungry between meals, I blame my kabillion hours of sleep. A normal day goes like this food wise...
1030 Wake up, take fasting number
11 breakfast
12 check breakfast number
(A snack for two hours between meals? Unnecessary.)
2 lunch
3 check lunch number
(I could fit in a snack here, but I’d have to eat it working.
Which means bringing it. Not worth it)
6 or 7 Dinner
7 or 8 Check number
9 Dessert snack.
11 bedtime
And some walking exercise snuck in there.
The Holy Grail List of Foods:
List of nonos
Chinese food
White carbs (bread, rice, potatoes, pasta)
Cereal, hot or cold
Granola
Pizza is the devil.
Sweets without severe moderation.
Fruit as anything other than a snack.
Ketchup
Hot dogs
Jelly. Not even a little
Honey
Good foods that my numbers love
Meat
Salad
Any cooked vegetable
Cheese
Almond milk
Nuts
Eggs
Unsweetened greek yogurt
Snacks I like
Handful of raw almonds
Handful of pretzels (with almonds or cheese.. White carb)
Cheese sticks
Peanut butter crackers. Peanut butter is a protein
An apple
No more ever than half a banana with anything. So much sugar in bananas. with peanut butter or choc peanut butter
Things I get away with
Half a pumpkin muffin
A SHORT pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks
Bites of hubby's dessert
Vanilla chai tea
S'more. Only one
Kids scoop ice cream.
One or two cookies
A sandwich with half the bread
A cheeseburger with half the bun
Chickfila with no bun
Honey vanilla greek yogurt for breakfast (4 oz)
The hardest thing with those is you want to eat it all. It's hard to have half a donut when there is a case in front of you. Or just 4-8 French fries because they look so good. And when I know I'm being really bad I make sure to walk or exercise and eat almonds or cheese with it for the protein boost. And to remember its for baby A and that Cinnabon is gonna taste dang good after he's born. I keep an ongoing list of "things I cannot wait to eat" and instead of mourning the fact that "I can't eat that :(" I add it to my list for a future 'diabetes dinner' night full of my favorites. And that in lieu of cards, flowers, and balloons at the hospital I'm asking for junk food.
Stress and illness also cause numbers to be higher than normal, so when I'm stressed out and a salad makes me high its not the salad, its my body chemistry.
List of nonos
Chinese food
White carbs (bread, rice, potatoes, pasta)
Cereal, hot or cold
Granola
Pizza is the devil.
Sweets without severe moderation.
Fruit as anything other than a snack.
Ketchup
Hot dogs
Jelly. Not even a little
Honey
Good foods that my numbers love
Meat
Salad
Any cooked vegetable
Cheese
Almond milk
Nuts
Eggs
Unsweetened greek yogurt
Snacks I like
Handful of raw almonds
Handful of pretzels (with almonds or cheese.. White carb)
Cheese sticks
Peanut butter crackers. Peanut butter is a protein
An apple
No more ever than half a banana with anything. So much sugar in bananas. with peanut butter or choc peanut butter
Things I get away with
Half a pumpkin muffin
A SHORT pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks
Bites of hubby's dessert
Vanilla chai tea
S'more. Only one
Kids scoop ice cream.
One or two cookies
A sandwich with half the bread
A cheeseburger with half the bun
Chickfila with no bun
Honey vanilla greek yogurt for breakfast (4 oz)
The hardest thing with those is you want to eat it all. It's hard to have half a donut when there is a case in front of you. Or just 4-8 French fries because they look so good. And when I know I'm being really bad I make sure to walk or exercise and eat almonds or cheese with it for the protein boost. And to remember its for baby A and that Cinnabon is gonna taste dang good after he's born. I keep an ongoing list of "things I cannot wait to eat" and instead of mourning the fact that "I can't eat that :(" I add it to my list for a future 'diabetes dinner' night full of my favorites. And that in lieu of cards, flowers, and balloons at the hospital I'm asking for junk food.
Stress and illness also cause numbers to be higher than normal, so when I'm stressed out and a salad makes me high its not the salad, its my body chemistry.
Thanks for this :)
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