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Booo, I have GD
May I please whine for one minute? I have GD. I know that I could certainly be eating better but I am disappointed that it's come to the point where my body really can't deal with this on it's own. Can you give me any resources that helped you? Sample menus, snack ideas, that sort of thing. I have the nutritional course at my OB's office on Monday, so I'm sure I'll get a lot of information there but I'd like to hear what really worked for you. I have found a few sites and been changing my snacks and overall eatting better since I failed the one hour test, but I'd still like to hear what other resources you used. Thanks in advance, Jenn
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Re: Booo, I have GD
I had GD with my son and I hve it with this baby. With my son I was able to control it with diet. I'm on insulin this time. They've upped my insulin 3 times and my numbers are still out of control.
The high risk board is a good place for ideas.
I got sent to the INOVA diabetes center both times. They have a class where they go over the diet, testing your blood, etc. I have to test 4 times a day. My blood sugar is supposed to be below 90 fasting and below 120 two hours after every meal. I'm supposed to eat 3 meals and 3 snacks a day. Each meal has a carb limit.
The main thing with GD is counting carbs. You get good at reading labels. Lots of things you wouldn't think of have carbs-peas, carrots, milk. Breakfast tends to be the hardest meal for people with GD. I eat a piece of bread with peanut butter. When I was pregnant with my son I had a small glass of milk too. I can't do it this time.
SOme foods are almost impossible to eat with GD-pizza, bagels, cereal with milk, cake with frosting.
My best advice is to load up on low carb veggies and try to eat protein. Some GD friendly foods are; greek yogurt, hummus, peanut butter, cheese, grilled meat, cottage cheese, graham crackers,
A lot of it is trial and error. What works for one person won't work for someone else and things can change as your pregnancy progresses. I have to be much more careful this pregnancy then I did with my son.
Good luck!
first of all, you should realize it's nothing YOU did that brought this on. i get a little sensitive when people treat GD the same as regular diabetes because it's not like you ate like crap and brought GD on yourself! (of course, a family history of diabetes likely increases your risk, and you are at risk for developing type 2 later in life).
the high risk pregnancy board is a good resource - a lot of people with GD wind up there. ultimately diet and exercize didn't help me and i was put on a low dose of glyburide daily.
it's a lot of trial and error to see what things work for you, but more frequent meals and balancing carbs & protein per meal/snack are key. i found potatoes really spiked my sugars but pasta was better. dreamfields makes a diabetic friendly pasta that is very low carb and i could eat a bunch of it without repurcussions and it didn't taste any different than regular pasta. bagel thins and low carb bread were good for getting bread in. nuts, cheese, eggs, PB and lean meats will be your best friends. taking a short walk after each meal might help control your sugars enough that you can avoid meds.
the worst part for me (a carboholic) was having GD over halloween -no candy- and thanksgiving (!!!). oh and the multiple daily finger sticks and doing a bunch of math early on to figure out how much of something you can eat.
here's an idea of what i'd eat in a day - i was limited to X grams of carbs per meal and had to take in X grams of protein for each as well and the amounts weren't the same per meal so i can't go in to real specifics but....
Breakfasts - half an english muffin toasted with one scrambled egg and slice of cheese on top, or a fried egg with cheese and a bagel thin with 1 Tb cream cheese
snacks - wheat thins and cheese, a banana, a bowl of cheerios, a yogurt and a handful of peanuts, apple slices with PB, a low sugar granola bar and a string cheese, a hard boiled egg and a string cheese.
lunches - most of the time i ate a sandwich with low carb wheat bread, a few slices of deli meat (turkey), and slice of cheese. with it i'd have a small salad (lettuce, cuke, carrot, tomato) with a teeny bit of dressing plus one of those horizon chocolate milk packs. sometimes i could get away with a frozen meal but i had to really watch the nutritional info on them.
Dinners - meat (chicken, fish, ground turkey), a lot of veggies, and very few carbs. repeat ad nauseum. Dinner was the meal i had the hardest time with because it was so repetetive.
Also, I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I found that 4 beef hard tacos (not supreme) at Taco Bell had the perfect balance of protein and carbs for my meals. I ate more than I care to count during the last part of my pregnancy because it was just so easy and I didn't have to think about what i was going to eat.
After a few weeks you'll find out what foods work for you. I discovered that peanut butter was magic for me and balanced out carbs really well. I couldn't eat bread, though. I ate lots of eggs and meat. And fruits and veggies.
It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it was hard. The benefit for me was that I was monitored more closely, which was why they caught my blood pressure creeping up, and put me on bedrest.
Alot of good info has been posted from Belize. I had GD with my son and although I passed the 3 hour at 14 weeks this time, I have to retake it at 26 weeks (boo!). Apparently mine was bought on because I wasn't eating enough so whatever my body consumed it was holding onto (starvation mode) and once they realized this I was placed on a 3k calorie/day diet in order to make me gain weight even though I was already considered overweight to begin with.
For the most part, for breakfast I'd have a fried egg, cheese on a whole wheat/high fiber english muffin plus my coffee - which I was still using regular sugar, just measuring it out and cottage cheese.
For snacks, I relied on string cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, carrots, apples, peanut butter crackers, 1/2 peanut butter sandwiches on whole wheat bread.
Lunch usually consisted of leftovers from the previous nights dinner.
Dinner was always a protein, 1 serving of a carb, and upwards of 4 servings of veggies.
Additionally I was told to drink a glass (8oz) of skim milk before bed because the protein in the milk and the 12g of carbs would help regulate my number in the morning and I did notice a difference.
A few days before my due date, I noticed that my numbers were REALLY good and thats when the doctor told me the baby was ready to come out. Not sure if its a correlation or not but I was def ready to deliver. He arrived 9lbs, 15.3 oz.