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<blockquote data-quote="Jchalky" data-source="post: 364417" data-attributes="member: 64928"><p>Hi All, this is my 2nd pregnancy and I am unlucky enough to get GD in both. My 1st baby was a small to average 7lb 3oz using diet control alone, plus I was 1stone lighter 1wk after pregnancy than before conception! This time around I have done my best since 16/40 to stay diet controlled but at 25/40 my resistance increased and I finally gave in and moved to metformin and insulin. Re: the questions on what to eat, we are all different but I agree to avoid cereals they are all laden with sugar. Weetabix has the lowest but I can only manage half each morning to get a normal blood sugar. Eat with whole milk as the fat in the milk slows down the sugar absorption, semi or skimmed milk will give you a higher sugar reading...plus you will need the calories as your diet is so tightly controlled. Try scrambled egg and salmon/ ham or bacon and rocket with mayo on oat toast as oat bread seems not to increase sugar readings as much as wheat or rye (for me anyway). Try to eat little and often. I eat every 2 hours! So half a weetabix at 7am, the other half (or egg on toast) at 9am, apple/ carrot with humus at 11am. Half a prepack sarnie with a 'of which sugars' less than 5g with a few mini poppodoms (durum wheat has a lower GI) or monster munch or walkers French fries all with low sugar content at 1pm, the other half at 3pm with a few more crisps and a sprite zero...believe it or not and your dietician won't tell you this. Try snacking on a mini Melton Mowbray pork pie as it will keep your hunger at bay and your sugars down. And for evening dinner my resistance has gone down and I'm no saint...chicken breast with Nandos sauce and salad with a few thin chips (higher fat content than potato or fat chips so lower sugar) and a mini tortilla wrap....and straight after have your fruit intake plums, grapes, kiwi fruit etc or if you like something a little sweet for pudding, Thorntons diabetic chocolate mints are just like after eights!...mmmm made myself hungry writing that. I'm no expert and most days I find GD frustrating and wish it would leave me alone so I can go for cake with the girls, but if you have a healthy baby at the end of all this ...ladies, it is worth it and at 28/40 I have still not put any weight on! Good luck. X</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jchalky, post: 364417, member: 64928"] Hi All, this is my 2nd pregnancy and I am unlucky enough to get GD in both. My 1st baby was a small to average 7lb 3oz using diet control alone, plus I was 1stone lighter 1wk after pregnancy than before conception! This time around I have done my best since 16/40 to stay diet controlled but at 25/40 my resistance increased and I finally gave in and moved to metformin and insulin. Re: the questions on what to eat, we are all different but I agree to avoid cereals they are all laden with sugar. Weetabix has the lowest but I can only manage half each morning to get a normal blood sugar. Eat with whole milk as the fat in the milk slows down the sugar absorption, semi or skimmed milk will give you a higher sugar reading...plus you will need the calories as your diet is so tightly controlled. Try scrambled egg and salmon/ ham or bacon and rocket with mayo on oat toast as oat bread seems not to increase sugar readings as much as wheat or rye (for me anyway). Try to eat little and often. I eat every 2 hours! So half a weetabix at 7am, the other half (or egg on toast) at 9am, apple/ carrot with humus at 11am. Half a prepack sarnie with a 'of which sugars' less than 5g with a few mini poppodoms (durum wheat has a lower GI) or monster munch or walkers French fries all with low sugar content at 1pm, the other half at 3pm with a few more crisps and a sprite zero...believe it or not and your dietician won't tell you this. Try snacking on a mini Melton Mowbray pork pie as it will keep your hunger at bay and your sugars down. And for evening dinner my resistance has gone down and I'm no saint...chicken breast with Nandos sauce and salad with a few thin chips (higher fat content than potato or fat chips so lower sugar) and a mini tortilla wrap....and straight after have your fruit intake plums, grapes, kiwi fruit etc or if you like something a little sweet for pudding, Thorntons diabetic chocolate mints are just like after eights!...mmmm made myself hungry writing that. I'm no expert and most days I find GD frustrating and wish it would leave me alone so I can go for cake with the girls, but if you have a healthy baby at the end of all this ...ladies, it is worth it and at 28/40 I have still not put any weight on! Good luck. X [/QUOTE]
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