Were you told this by a GP OB/GYN or by an ENDOCRINOLOGIST......information on this subject has changed so much over even the past 2-3yrs and many doctors who are not endos or diabetologists still go by the old school of management which basically bans all sugar. The GI approach which is the result of many years of actual scientific research not just previous theory that the simpler the carbohydrate the worse it is for you will teach you how to eat to smooth the curve of "glucose" uptake into the bloodstream which reduces the stress load on the pancreas. For example a banana actually has quite a high GI and is absorbed quite rapidly into the bloodstream creating those high sugars you talk about showing up on the monitor. Another example ...a boiled potato has a higher GI than most forms of chocolate and dark chocolate is actually low GI and an acceptable food for a daibetic where previously this wasn't thought to be so. There are o lot of threads on here that talk about it...I don't know how to post links but there was a good one in the general pregnancy discussion thread not so long ago. To correct your facts just a tad... fat delays digestion and actually lowers the GI of a meal (still is bad for you though...hehe) and Gestational Diabetes does not lead to "proper" diabetes in later life...it may lead to Type 2 Diabetes. It would be a very very rare occurence for it to lead to Type 1 being as type 1 is an auto immune disease much much rarer and serious than Type2.
Btw are your Aunt and Grandad Type 1 or Type 2?
My Aunt and Grandfather in law have Type 1. And the last time i had Gestational Diabetes was 2 years ago,so yea you could be right in the fact things may have changed and what i was told.I was also looked after by a diabetologists who i was refered too while having Diabetes.And she was very strict on my blood results i took ever day,so i did not dare eat anything i was told not too LOL. I was pretty good seeings i craved Choc because at the end of the day i had to think about the baby.
But yea she also told me that later in life i COULD get proper Diabetes which i suppose she meant Type 1.Because i have it in the family too.But it also doesnt mean that because i had Gestational in my last pregnancy that i could get it again in this pregnancy,because this is my third pregnancy and i didnt have it in my first.I was near to being put on insulin at one stage,but i told them i would be strict with my diet and so i managed to stay off it
Also boiled potato was fine for me and i knew Bananas had sucrose, fructose and glucose in them so stayed clear of them,same as grapes has sugar in too. I was ok on some fatty foods..just wasnt allowed mainly sweety thing ..chocs,sweets,biscuits,cakes ,sugar in hot drinks etc.
Skorpy....I just relaise that you are from the UK...this could account a little bit for the different method of treatment. You see the Glycaemic Index of foods study was initiated in Australia and Canada and is now one of the most accepted treatment regimes combined with a thing called carb counting. It is also big in the US now but has been a bit slower filtering through to all the powers that be in the UK. This I know because I have abour half a dozen friends with Type 1 diabetes living in the UK at the moment...one of whom is pregnant at the moment. It is the most reccomended form of dietary advice given to help delay the onset/and orprogression of Type 2 Diabetes so it might be worth your while having a read of it...it really is very good. I know of several women here on belly belly who have PCOS and associated insulin resistance who follow the diet and find it very helpful...Bel is one person who comes to mind...she is now about 30 weeks pregnant and followed the diet from before pregnancy to aid in conception...she raves about it a bit like me. Anyways in case you and Mel09 are interested it is called "The New Glucose Revolution" by Professor Jennie Brand Miller et al.....ISBN 0-7336-1500-7. It is highly reccommended reading for all epople not just those at risk.....
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Melanie
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