Megan - good for you! I plan to try and stick to the diet after delivery too. Hopefully
So yesterday was the appointment with my DE.
Yep, she was happy allright with the BSL numbers. Until she saw my food dietary intake.
She said I've been starving myself and the fact that I've lost 2kgs in a week may not indicate a good sign. She told me to up my meals intake and eat 9 servings (2 serves each 3 main meals, and 1 serve at snack time) of carbs!! Don't you think that's a lot??
Now that I'm up-ing on carbs, my levels just shoots up high!
I don't know what I'm going to do now. Last night before bed I got so depressed and bursts uncontrollably into tears (3rd trimester hormones sure helps). It feels like I'm trying so so hard to get the levels down while eating properly, but it's still not working. I'm trying my best not to beat myself up over this. I know it's probably not what I eat but the way the placenta hormones work. But I can't seem to get over it After looking at my 8.1 reading last night, I feel like stuff it! I might as well get chocolate pudding and brownies for dessert (but I didn't)!
Do you think it could've been the paratha bread and noodles made my levels shoot up? Though those are the only carbs I eat for lunch/dinner. Rye bread for breakfast seems to do well with me, eh? 9 servings of carbs may be too much for me? Oh actually yesterday I only got 7 serves of carbs. Sighh..
Smudgy, I could never eat noodles, they always sent my BSL too high. I am not sure on the GI rating for them, but they were a definite no-no for me. Instead you could try having a multigrain bread with soup, or basmati rice (low GI). Also the rice paper on the wontons could cause a BSL spike, asian foods tend to use high GI rice varieties.
From your food diary it does look as though you aren't eating enough. From someone who has been in your exact same position, my advice is this: Eat the suggested amount of low GI foods and if your BSL's go too high then go on insulin. It is actually a relief to have the insulin and be able to actually eat instead of stressing and being hungry all the time.
Myson, I have a few bruises at the moment. OB commented the other day at how many I have! I had a bad run with hitting blood vessels recently and some of my injections have been quite painful for some reason.
I have been lurking around just reading the forum - i gave birth to my daughter on 21 January (i was insulin dependant gestational diabetes) and for the first few days after the birth my bsl's were all normal - however since coming home, the few times i have managed to do a check the have all been over 7.0 which when i was pregnant was my cut off. - My question is, after giving birth what is considered a "normal" bsl?? - i go for my post partum glucose test in two weeks and am really stressing about it!
Gill, I know in my aunty's case (she is a type 1 diabetic), her levels should be between 4-8. From what I understand, the cut off for gestational is 7 as they like to keep it a bit lower.
Good luck with your test. Fingers crossed it's all ok.
GD and so depressed..:(
After looking at my 8.1 reading last night, I feel like stuff it! I might as well get chocolate pudding and brownies for dessert (but I didn't)!
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