Dealing with constant hunger with Gestational Diabetes
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Anonymous
| I have really been struggling with GD and am constantly hungry. If you had GD how did you manage feeling hungry? I’ve tried all kinds of snacks. |
Anonymous
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Before I had the diet figured out, I had some days where I was ravenous. What helped me was to add another slice of cheese, increase protein without increasing carbs.
You'll get it figured out, OP. |
Anonymous
| More protein nuts and water. |
Anonymous
| Thanks! I’ve been adding cheese but maybe need to add more? I want a chocolate chip cookie so badly. Sigh. |
Anonymous
| Nuts, cheese (I splurged and always had 3 nice cheeses on hand), crunchy veggies with guacamole, low sugar fruit such as grapefruit, oranges, raspberries, strawberries. Eggs. Peanut butter (low sugar). Dark chocolate >80 percent—totally recommend having a square or two each night. Lots of meat with veggie sides. Cauliflower rice. Zucchini noodles. A treat for me at a restaurant would be a super decadent burger without the bun and a side salad. |
Anonymous
| One night when I was starving, soon after being diagnosed with GD, DH made me a steak with a fried egg and parmesan cheese on it. I was so hungry and it was so delicious. |
Anonymous
| Heavy stuff, high in fat and protein. |
Anonymous
| Protein, protein, protein! |
Anonymous
| Cheese. Full fat yogurt. Nuts. |
Anonymous
| Go buy dark chocolate that has 80% cocoa and eat a small piece. |
Anonymous
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OMG I remember that.... it *sucked*
This was my general plan. (I also carried around cheese sticks just in case I was consumed by hunger. Its been 7 yrs & I have yet to eat another cheese stick....) Breakfast: 2 eggs Scrambled with cheese, 1 slice Low carb high fiber bread (got it at target), coffee with a tiny bit of heavy cream Mid morning snack: vanilla Greek yogurt (not non-fat) Mixed with 1/2 of a bigger sized carton of strawberries Lunch: peanut butter sandwich (low carb high fiber bread), a baby bell cheese, hard boiled egg on spinach salad with oil/vinegar Pm snack: Bag of almonds, 7 baby carrots & a whole sliced up English cucumber, cheese stick (not low fat!) Dinner was often one of these options: - taco salad (chicken breast cut up & cooked with taco seasoning, 2 crushed up hard tacos, lettuce, cheese, salsa, little bit of sour cream) -cut up chicken breast mixed with diabetes-friendly pasta bow ties (from Amazon), pesto & walnuts -chicken breast with broccoli & a baked sweet potato - Some coarse grain that my Russian friend (who had also had GD) brought me (it was like kasha or bulgur - not sure what because box was in Russian, but low glycemic index) cooked in chicken broth. Threw in cut up chicken breast & part of a bag of mixed frozen vegetables & mixed it together - if we went out to eat then I would also have a burger & just take a bit or two of the bun. Before bed snack: bag of almonds & 1/2 of a supermarket-brand ice cream sandwich The key, for me, seemed to be getting a mix of fat, carbs and fiber in every meal/snack. If one of those elements was missing then my blood sugar wasn’t as stable. |
Anonymous
| Just have a cookie, it’s not going to kill you our the baby. I’ve had gestational diabetes three times, one cookie is not this big thing. |
Anonymous
You can do a sweet potato?! Lucky! : ) |
Anonymous
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Sweet potatoes were indeed no problem. I was allowed 30 gm carbs for full meals (15 gm for snacks), and a small sweet potato is about 25 gm, so with broccoli & chicken it got me right to 30. They have a lot of fiber, maybe that’s why they are ok? Or maybe I was just lucky with them. Normal potatoes, on the other hand, were a disaster....
And my Russian friend says the grain she gave me was buckwheat. |
Anonymous
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Oh, and the diabetes-friendly pasta is a brand called Dreamfields.
The bread was Nature’s Own Wheat Bread Double Fiber, which I got from Target. |