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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 166311" data-attributes="member: 12578">Re: highs to lows in less than an hour - what could be goingAnti carb, I know absolutely nothing about pregnancy and diabetes (long past that when I became diabetic) but I had a look at the John Walsh pumping book about pregnancy.He has a plan which divides calories into 18ths with carbs forming 40% of the total calories (he says to have individual advice on the number of calories needed and that they increase by about 500-1000 calories by nine months.He divides the day into small meals and snacks.2/18 of the carbs are eaten at breakfast,(time of high resistance for many pregnant women)1/ 18 for midmorning snack5/18 for lunch2/18 mid afternoon5/18 dinner2/18 after dinner snack1/18 bedtime snack  1/18 works out at   19g carb on a 1600 calorie diet, 20g carb on a 1800 calorie diet, 22g carb on a 2000 calorie diet, 30g on a 2800g diet etcI'm not certain (thinking back into the depths of time) that I would have found such a prescriptive regime easy to follow but I do think that the concept of planned, counted carbs in small(ish) doses is a good idea. Instinctively it seems more sensible to plan in those snacks, rather than have to eat them when you deal reactively to a hypo.</blockquote>

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