With 8 weeks of pregnancy to go, I got painfully nurse call. "We decided you diagnose gestational diabetes." I started to cry. Explained politely that we control diet with no drug to try and see if that would help stabilize my sugar levels. All that I complained for the next week scoffed at my misery. "It's just 8 weeks! You can do it. Just eat a lot of green vegetables and avoid ... " (fill in the blank, nausea)
This for a girl addicted to the dairy products! I hate the sugar and artificial sweeteners. I love milk, Scully soy products. Despises vitamins, but I have all my vitamin c through juice-now on the ' no go ' list. So what to do to make it through, if you are not a serious dieter? Now I turn to all of you wonderful people who can eat salad 4 times per day or are totally gluten-free grain-dairy. But there are those of us who are missing some discipline and desire to eat what we're used to. what to do?
1. The first step is to eggs. These small ovals of goodness have saved my breakfast. Eggs are high in protein, low carb and a handy tool for a gestational diabetic. They are great for the nutrition of children as distinct and childbirth classes that I recommend a minimum of 2 per day. Can be difficult to digest prepared the same way and beyond, so get creative! The eggs are very flexible. Is my favorite way to prepare them scramble with cheese, sausage, garlic, salt and pepper. Recently I made myself a breakfast burrito (Watch the tortilla wraps for carbohydrates, but if you can count the carbs in one, you can stuff with all fillings no-carb carb count and make the meal with just the wrap). Filled with sausage, eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, sour cream and a little boiled potato. Can be mounted even eggs, prepared with a little mayo for egg salad, boiled, poached, omelettes made or many other options. Search for recipes based on eggs, there are some great ones out there.
2. The sour cream, cream cheese and cottage cheese. This list provided my Fix dairy. If you have small amounts of carbohydrates, is nothing like milk. I think that the cream cheese is about 4 carburettors 2 tablespoons. While I can eat all these raw, but are also extremely flexible and great for use in every meal. For breakfast, I can use the cream cheese on my toast with jam a little. Sour cream filling breakfast burritos or can be mounted with cream cheese and a little sugar (or your choice of sweeteners) for a delicious, low-carb topper for a pancake. Make the salad dressings with sour cream or cottage cheese and cream or cottage cheese to make a good dive for many fruits, if you can count some fruits in your afternoon or evening meals. Cottage cheese is tasty tuna, fruit salads, or a side dinner. Has tons of protein, which is another essential element in pregnancy.
3. almond milk or rice. I can't stand to drink these plain, for I am rich and creamy milk. But I miss my coffee! Using a decaffeinated coffee, ice and almond milk, you can mix up a cold coffee with no carbohydrates. So if you have a "choice" carb -15 CARB snack, you can add 3 teaspoons of sugar or sweetener for a yummy drink mixed. Almond milk has 1 carb in a Cup, against 13 for a cup of milk from milk.
4. Measuring Cups! If you are going crazy thinking that your meal portions have been greatly reduced, pull out your measuring cups. I'm a busy woman. I rarely time to slice and measure my meal separate from my husband's grandmother. But if you take 1-2 days to slow down your meal a little planning, start checking to see how much food is just in a Cup. Make the most of whatever you are allowed carb essay. You might be surprised at how food actually you are allowed. My nutritionist told me 1/3 cup cooked rice or pasta is a carb choice. This means that if I've cooked broccoli with butter and sour cream as a dive (my favorite!), cottage cheese on one side and a fillet of salmon, can I eat 2/3 cup of rice or 1 cup of milk. Let me tell you, that is a great meal! No skimpy little plates for my dinner.
5. Cheese. A more versatile, incredible help. Cheese goes well with beef or Turkey sandwich for lunch. I have already suggested appending eggs for breakfast. For a snack will melt the cheese with tuna, on a piece of bread, or even just on a plate. There are many types of cheese for which I'm sure you can find one to satisfy. The cheese is low in carbohydrates and great for all meals. You can make a cheese sauce with almond milk and a little butter and flour and pour over spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, etc.
There are a lot of tips and tricks to planning meal for gestational diabetes. A friend has suggested lowering my intake of yeast, saying it has helped with desire sugars. My encouragement better simply by reading the labels. Familiarize yourself with the readings of carbohydrates in nutrition labels and you'll find that you're not limited as it seems. Of course if you're bound to go down and fat, gluten or dairy, some of these suggestions will need adjusted. But take advantage of your nutritionist, doctor and diabetic friends and relatives. Just don't get scared by horror stories. Remember that gestational diabetes is not of type 1 diabetes, and adult-onset of type 2. There are different and the body has unique requirements.
Finally, remember that as easy as you make it, will still be a challenge. When you crave fruit for breakfast, brownies, chocolate or cookies, think about your child. As you've probably heard by now, uncontrolled diabetes can be ugly. For your pregnancy, high blood glucose levels can mean a huge child (up to 11 pounds), the risk of type 2 diabetes after pregnancy for you and a diabetic or severely affected child. My biggest motivator until now thought a few weeks away, when will be holding my son for the first time and see a guy healthy, medium size, with a good life ahead of him, with the safe return of my morning coffee.
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