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[quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry about the GD. I had it too. Please keep in mind that it’s nothing you did!!! It’s just a weird placenta thing.... I’m sure you know this, but I wanted to reiterate it because I am a doctor & found that some of my colleagues - who should know better! - acted like I had done something “wrong” to end up with GD....

It was a little complicated to figure out in the beginning. I ate like 6 mini meals a day, and the trick is to always combine  carbs with protein & fiber.  For instance, 2 eggs with cheese and 1slice of high fiber bread for breakfast. Then a siggis yogurt with 2% far and fresh strawberries mid morning. Then salad with hard boiled eggs or chicken  and a handful of almonds for lunch. A few mini carrots/cucumber slices  & cheese sticks or apple slices (1/2 apple) and peanut butter as a mid afternoon snack. For dinner, corn hard shell tacos are really low in carbs, so chicken tacos with lettuce cheese & tomatoes.. Also, you can get low carb pasta & i would mix in pesto, chicken and broccoli. Or a chicken breast plus a small sweet potato & green beans. Then a before bed snack - I would have a small scoop of high fat ice cream & almonds. I ended up having to give myself one shot of insulin at night because no matter what I had as the bedtime snack my glucose was high in the AM.

Weirdly, I felt better on the GD diet (although I was frequently hungry, which sucked.... & I never want to see a cheese stick again!) then when I was eating whatever I wanted. Oddly, I think I’m the long run it was a good thing because I became a better cook & still (7 years later) eat a modified GD diet because I feel better on it, so go figure. I also started to enjoy checking my blood sugars bc after a few weeks I knew how to control it & it was fun to “master” my blood sugar. Though at the end the placenta gets weird & the blood sugars are a little harder to figure out.

Sorry about the GD rant, but I always remember how confused I felt when the OB told me - I totally did not know where to start. Though you seem more relaxed and reasonable than i was.  Big congrats  on your pregnancy![/quote]

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