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December 2010 Moms
GrayGhost13
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GD Moms - Weekly Check-In
GrayGhost13
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Hey GD mamas,
As promised, here's our new weekly check-in thread.
How are things going for you? What challenges or successes have you run into over the past week in managing your GD?
And a bonus question for this week: What GD-friendly food are you digging right now?
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Re: GD Moms - Weekly Check-In
Things are going ok with me, I think. I'm finally getting used to my diet plan, enough that I can remember off the top of my head "I'm supposed to have one carb and one meat at this meal" versus having to look at the piece of paper and figure it out before every meal. I think that's progress!
My DH ordered some bento boxes for us, which should come in a week or so. I think they will making packing all these tiny little portions more fun.
My biggest challenge this week is trying to fit in enough calories to actually gain back some of the weight I've lost since going low carb. It's flame-worthy, but gaining weight is harder than it sounds when you're trying to faithfully follow this diet and eat healthy. I have actually gotten my whole 2000 calories a couple days this week (for the first time in a month or two), even though I've had to cheat a little on my meal-plan to get there, so I'm hoping that I might weigh in a little better at my appointment on Thursday.
My new favorite food is Dreamfields pasta. It looks and tastes like regular pasta, but it only has 5g of digestable carbs per serving, so I can eat a whole cup of it with dinner (versus 1/3 cup of regular pasta). I love it!
On a sidenote, has anyone found a GD-friendly cereal? I tried the Kashi Go Lean Crunch last week, which I've seen recommended on here, and it spiked my sugars up above 200, the worst reading I've ever had. I'm wondering if there's anything else that's even lower in sugar or if I'm going to have to stick to toast for the next two months.
I am hanging in there. I am finding the diet & exercise a bit challenging. The diet is challenging because I don't feel like I have a whole lot of options and I'm so worried about my numbers going above 130 that I'm not focusing on what the baby needs or calorie intake. The exercise has been challenging because it's been raining here since last week. So I find myself either skipping it all together or rushing out when there is a break in the weather. I'm also fighting a nasty cold.
I meet with the dietician again today. My fasting numbers are always above 90, so they might put me on meds.
In other news, I had my monthly OB visit last week. At the time, I was 31 weeks and my stomach is measuring at 38 weeks. So the doctor is scheduling a c-section for the week before my due date. She is really concerned the baby will be wayyyy to big to deliver vaginally. FUN TIMES!
My favorite GD friendly food is https://www.clemmysicecream.com/
I'm hanging in there. This is my first week on the diet, so I'm still getting the hang of what I can eat and when. (i AM still dragging my sheets with my everywhere, lol!) Packing my food for the workday takes SO much time while I figure out what I can eat that I didn't eat yesterday or won't repeat snacks 2x today. Ugh!
I'll have to talk with my nutritionist again because the biggest problem is I feel like to get everything in I'm eating way more than I usually would, and having to eat even when I'm full. That just doesn't seem right?
Anyway, I have noticed my sugars are coming under control. Fasting is still above 90 (though not by much) but the others are mostly all under 120.
For cereal - plain cheerios have been ok for me as a snack. I eat 1c. cheerios with 3/4 c. milk as my bedtime snack and the past 2 days doing that my fasting #'s have been the lowest in 5 days the following mornings. I can't eat cereal for breakfast (not allowed milk in the am and only 15 carbs) so I don't know if it spikes right after eating....
Here's a question for you all: if I have a snack that says eat 30g carbs + protein, but my snack has protein in it (say my yoplait yogurt that has 33g carbs and I think 6g protein) - is that good enough? Or do I have to pop some nuts or a string cheese with it for additional protein? I think I'm never going to eat string cheese again after this kid is born...
I love the "Sugar Mamas" idea! The 5mg glyburide seems to be helping with my fasting numbers but I notice that if I don't have a snack right before bed they are still a little high. So I need to work on that. Sometimes I just don't feel like eating before bed. One tip that has been heliping is to make sure my fruits and milks are eaten mid day and not first thing in the am or last thing before bed. I thought it sounded strange but really seems to help.
As far as snacks go, I am enjoying fat free chiobani greek yogurt with a little bit of splenda brown sugar to balance out the bitterness with barenaked fit vanilla almond granola. It is so good. I also am eating a lot of soup.
LOL I'm totally putting that in the title of next week's check-in.
I'm doing ok this week. I continue to take 14 units NPH at night for fasting #'s, but sometimes they're still high. I also added fast acting insulin as of Friday last week. I'm finding it very tricky to figure out how much to take. I'm supposed to take at least 3 units, which should cover an additional 45 grams of carbs. But I think I'm still bad at estimating how much I'm eating. So the last few days my numbers have been really low 1 hour after meals, like 107, 109, etc. I guess that means I'm not eating enough carbs for I'm taking too much of the insulin. I think that's why I'm getting higher fasting #'s too.
And it has been really hard to gain weight!! I haven't been tracking my calories, which I guess I should do. But I haven't gained anything since the GD diagnosis. I've lost a few lbs. My OB isn't concerned about it, but the endocrinologist is. So I'm supposed to make sure I'm eating more, which leads back to the fast acting insulin.
I am still enjoying my Chobani yogurts with granola. I think I eat 2 a day now for snacks!
I have my follow up appt this afternoon with the Endocrinologist. Hopefully sometime soon I can see the Nutritionist.
So far, the diet thing is working out good. Not as bad as a I thought. It just gets annoying having to check my damn sugar 5 times a day and then check my urine in the morning.
I'm digging animals crackers right now, they are awesome, oh yea and so is sugar free jello and pudding!
Tracking calories and measuring portions is a PITA but it is really helpful. The first week or so I was following the diabetic meal-plan, I realized I was only getting in about 1,100 or 1,200 calories a day. I felt like I was eating all the time, but with that few calories, no wonder I was losing weight! Since I can't really up my quantities, I've been trying to work in more rich, fatty foods and it's helped a lot.
I've been using Spark people for several years, and while it doesn't have its own diabetic-friendly settings, you can customize your goals based on your nutritionist's plan. I find it much easier to use than when I used to keep a food journal on paper.
Hurray for the weekly check-in! Things are going fine for me. I feel like I have finally settled into this routine and it's not so overwhelming any more. I'm no longer throwing a daily pity party, anyway.
My sugars have been well under control, so that's really encouraging.
My main challenge overall is that I'm a vegetarian, so I have fewer protein sources to choose from. But honestly, it hasn't been nearly as hard as I feared.
Over the past week, I had two big challenges, the first of which was that I came down with a cold. All my body really wanted to do was rest and get better, and that resulted in a couple of high-ish BSL readings, even though I still got out for at least a short walk after each meal. The second challenge was that we threw a birthday party for my husband on Sunday, and I had to time my eating wisely and make sure there were munchies I could have. Of course, that also meant that I had to stay away from the cupcakes, and, probably least convenient of all, go for a walk after eating at the party. It actually worked out fine, though, since I was kind of ready for a breather.
Things I'm digging this week are Mini Babybel cheeses (so convenient!) with whole wheat crackers as a snack, and unsweetened soy milk as a milk substitute, since I'm trying to minimize the milk consumption this week until I get over my stuffiness.
Hi ladies,
I'm currently on 2.5mg of glyburide at bedtime, and it took some adjusting but now I'm finally getting 80's and 90's for my fasting numbers. I found that if I take it too late (last week was basball playoffs here, so I was taking it literally right before bed at like midnight) then my numbers are as bad as they used to be w/o the meds. So, I've got to take it no later than 10:30 to get good results. Also, I used to have a piece of cheesecake after dinner, but I've got to eat that earlier too or else the numbers are off in the am.
So far, I'm liking Trader Joe's tomato soup w/ roasted red pepper, and their oyster crackers (you get 13 crackers for one carb serving) along with a grilled cheese sandwich. Last night we made meatballs and sauce and put them in a carb friendly tortilla (18g) with some cheese. Yummy!
Other than that, my stand by snacks are string cheese, sugar free pudding (dulce de leche is awesome) and dannon light and fit in either key lime or pina colada. I really liked the Chobani yogurts but the only ones I can find have the fruit on the bottom.
Reading through the other responses...
As long as the yogurt has enough protein, I think you are fine. I'd probably throw some nuts in there, too, but 6g is pretty good.
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I'm also in the no weight gain camp. I actually lost a couple of pounds in the first couple of weeks after I was diagnosed, and I haven't gained any more since then. I'm still measuring on track, so that's good, but the nutritionist did say that if I haven't gained any weight by next visit, they'll ask me to start making small changes, like switching from skim milk to 2% to up the calorie intake a bit. I think that's a really common problem with GD, even though you feel like you're doing nothing but eating all day long.
If you're eating 30 carbs for your snack, I would try to have 1 serving of protein, which is 7 grams. I'd throw in a string cheese or some nuts. Or switch to Greek yogurts. They have tons of protein.
Another thing I eat for snacks is Luna Bars. Most of them are 25-28 carbs and 12 grams of protein.
Hey there Sugar Mamas (I love that, lol)
The past week has been pretty good for me. I've finally stopped writing down everything I eat...that's helped me feel a little less controlled by my diet (I still reference carb amounts on calorieking.com all the time though). I just log my numbers now. They've been very good, and my doctors are all happy with how I'm doing. I'm glad I'm able to control things without medication so far. A couple times a week my BSL will spike after a meal for no apparent reason, but the doctor isn't concerned. I had a growth u/s last week and LO seems to be doing just fine.
My go-to snack lately has been "DIY Breakstones Doubles" of a scoop of fat free cottage with a tablespoon of sugar free preserves. Almost nightly, my after dinner 'snack' is a sugar free fudgesicle. I am a chocolate-freak, so these save me.
I don't. They check them when I go in to the MFM specialist, but that's only once every couple of weeks.
KatieGator, I've had that, too (occasional spikes for no reason) and the NP told me it's probably just a hormonal surge or something. As long as it doesn't happen often, it's nothing to worry about.