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April 2012 Moms
Failed My 1 Hour
Crap. Just got a call. I took the 1 hour at 17 weeks and passed (barely) and I took it again yesterday and failed BIG time. I even fasted for 10 hours and failed (130 is the cut off and I was 150). On top of that I am anemic. I thought I've been eating well. Only splurging once in a while but I guess I'm in bad shape. In 5 weeks I put on 10 lbs.
With DD I had polyhydroanmiosis but passed my 1 hour. With this pregnancy the high risk doctor said that maybe I really did have GD with DD but magically passed the test. I feel like this all makes me sound like I've been sitting and eating cookies and ice cream for the past 26 weeks when that is for sure not the case. On a typical work day I will have a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast (I eat on my way out the door), for lunch a spinach salad, and snack a small bag of pretzels, other snacks are a piece of cheese, yogurt, and sometimes a cinnamon Pop-Tart (I LOVE cinnamon). For dinner DH and I make a point to eat chicken no less than 2 times per week and some sort of red meat 1 time. Sure we eat pasta and I love perogies but it isn't every night.
Suggestions on how to fix this now. What does the GD diet look like so I can get on it now? Maybe I should go finish the Jenny Craig food I was on before I got KU.
Thanks!
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Re: Failed My 1 Hour
Don't stress! GD has to do with your body's reaction to pregnancy hormones...this can impact your pancreas/insulin production. It doesn't mean you aren't eating right or are eating too much carbs/sugar .
I failed the test at 15 weeks and I don't eat bad, I had it with DS so I expected to have it again. I had even cut my carbs during this pregnancy (not following the GD diet exactly but limiting my carbs) and I still failed. I wouldn't say 150 is failing big time FWIW, my one hour post-meal is to be under 140, failing big time would be in the 180's and NOT needing the 3 hour test and just getting the diagnosis. I have lost 15 lbs and I still have it so it doesn't matter how much weight you have gained or what you eat. I didn't gain any weight prior to getting GD either. I have PCOS, it puts me at a much higher risk for GD and since my body doesn't know what to do with hormones I have it.
If you truly have it, which a 3 hour test will show, only your dietician can set the carb limits for each meal as everyone that has it will give you different amounts. It depends on what test you fail (you have to fail 2 of the 4 blood draws) to determine your amounts.
Also, I can NEVER have a bagel, it's way over my carb count allowance. I don't know what size bagel you are eating but a large bagel is way over my allowance for lunch which is my largest allowance of the day. With what you listed, this is what would be listed on my bad list and I wouldn't eat it: bagel, pop-tarts, yogurt unless it is FiberOne yogurt, normal yogurt-never, perogies and OMG pasta, 2 oz of pasta has over 40 grams of carbs and that is not including RED SAUCE (that's more than my dinner allowance right there in the pasta). Also for some people they can do breads, I can't without a lot of protein. I can get away with other foods that some people can't. I've had my share of carbs at Thanksgiving and had no problem at all with my sugars, in fact they were quite low (we went out to eat and I could not subsitute any part of the meal).
The diet is all about eating more proteins and fats, trust me I go through about 16 oz of cheese a week (not low fat either) and I've still lost 15 lbs and limiting carbs. It's more of portion control and discipline. Good luck with the three hour test!
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