I am now diabetic. For the past week I have woken up with fasting numbers above 90. 113 this morning. And if you know anything about fasting blood sugar, that is bad. I didn't eat before bed, and my number when I went to bed was 133 2 hr's after eating dinner.
For the first few weeks after my GD test, (which I passed at 27 weeks) If I watched what I ate, I could eat sugar and sweets in moderation. Now, I can't even look at them with out spiking my blood sugar. It's okay. I don't NEED to eat sugar. I don't NEED a bowl of super yummy frosted flakes for breakfast. I don't NEED that cookie for desert. But it certainly makes pregnancy, in it's last weeks, a little easier. With 5 of 5, I craved a toast and eggs sandwich, so having one for breakfast was no biggie. This time, the thought of that, makes my stomach turn. So I wanted fruit loops, but had a string cheese and half a banana. I'm still hungry. It always takes me a week or so, to figure out how to eat again, with out the sugar. I'll get the hang of it, then It'll be fine. But that week is very hard.
If you have any good ideas, for low carb, low sugar meals..... I could use them. This really takes the fun out of food.
Wish me luck. Only 8 more weeks of this.
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I suggest getting the SouthBeach Diet book. It has some great low carb/low sugar recipes. But basically the idea is to have eggs (scrambled, omelets, fried, etc) for breakfast with skim milk or V8 juice (no OJ). Cheese sticks and sugar free jellos for inbetween meal snacks, salad with grilled chicken and low fat balsamic vinagrette dressing for lunch, and grilled chicken and veggies for dinner. There are recipes for phase 2 that have whole grain pasta and whole wheat bread/tortillas in the meals which is what you should do while pregnant because you don't want to cut your calories down while you are pregnant but just cut out the extra carbs and sugar. Good luck!
I am so sorry! I am of no help because I LOVE my sugar. I have learned to like sugar free pudding. They have it in chocolate it that helps at all :(
I am so sorry, I hate gestational diabetes, I get it too. I don't have any good suggestions because it has been a few years. But just hang in there, this to shall pass.
Kelli,
my suggestion is go on a search engine and type in low carb and low sugar meals and see what you come up with .
This is what my Mother in law had to do when she found out she had type 2 is look on the internet for yummy recipes, ther is tons out there you just have to look and see what looks good to you .
hope this helps.
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