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Gestational diabetic

jamiebrown16
jamiebrown16 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I have recently been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. I need help with some recipes, breakfast is my hardest meal of day. I have mainly been doing chicken, fruit, and veggies and I am starting to get bord with it. I need a way to mix it up. I also needs to be gluten free. I am having a tough time with it, so I am looking for help. Please and thank you.

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  • MHarper522
    MHarper522 Posts: 108 Member
    I had gestational diabetes and was referred to a dietician. They gave me a carb "budget" per meals, and I had to eat a steady 3 meals, 2 or 3 snacks. I'm trying to remember what it was but something like 15-30g carbs for breakfast, 30-45g carbs for dinner and lunch, <15g carbs per snack (this was for me! I'm not saying to follow this, I'm not a doctor or dietician). They also gave me meal suggestions, list of food, etc. I was able to control mine with diet alone, kept a journal with my food and blood sugar. OB was calling me a model GD patient (I get obessive over stuff like that so it was right in my ballpark).

    I can't have gluten (which I didn't know at the time), but if you usually do not have gluten, you can usually have the same food, you just need to look at you amount of carbs per meal and track your blood sugar.
  • jamiebrown16
    jamiebrown16 Posts: 4 Member
    Thank you everyone I appreciate your feedback. I do meet with a dietician at the end of the week but I see my doctor a couple days before and wanted to them I was trying to do something different. I don't want to be put on insulin. Thank you you again 🙂
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
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    I would look into LCHF or even keto recipes for more ideas. Beef, pork, lamb, fish eggs, nuts, seeds, olives, avocado, coconut and veggies are all lower carb.

    On thing about keto recipes though, is that I remember one worry my dietician and OB had was that I do not eat too few carbs. You need a certain level of carbs for your baby's development. My urine was checked for ketones too.

    I doubt the dietician is correct. Carbs are nonessential. The Inuit and plains First Nations people ate that way, and I know a few women who ate very low carb through pregnancy.

    I wouldn't drop carbs to zero in a day, but a slow reduction of carbs to 50g or so (if Keto is a goal) is safe unless you are taking insulin. Low carb is under 100-150g a day, which is upwards of 50g of carbs a meZl - not a small amount.

    At the very least, I would consider giving up, or really restricting, sugar and highly processed carbs. They are high in carbs, will raise BG faster than most foods (except maybe a juice) and in terms of nutrition, they are weak. Whole foods are healthier for you and may help set your baby up for a healthy start in life.

    Good luck.

    Are you telling her to not listen to a registered dietician AND an OB? What the actual hell?

    Merely correcting the misinformation that carbs are essential. There are not. A better informed dietician should know that.

    So, she should listen to you instead of to them? What are *your* medical qualifications?

    OP: Please continue to get qualified advice from your RD and doctor. As you know, GD is a specific medical condition that falls well outside of the jurisdiction of non-medical (albeit hopefully well-intended) strangers trying to promote an agenda that might very well be ill advised for you and your baby.

    Keep us posted on how you're doing!

    I'm happy to look at anything that shows that carbs are essential, and are essential to a developing fetus. Doctors and dieticians do not know it all. You know that.

    I am of the opinion that rapid dietary changes may not be good, but I said that. A slow lowering of carbs is fine. No pregnant woman exists on the same number of carbs each day. There is variation. Heck, I lost 10-15lbs in the second and third month of my pregnancies due to nausea. Pg women can do fine with dietary changes. Bread, noodles, croissants, soda or candy does a baby no favours. Eliminating those foods is a great way to lower carbs and BG....better than taking insulin. IMO.

    Good luck to the OP.

    Given that an above poster was able to follow the recommendations of her Registered Dietitian and regulate her BG just fine and avoid medication, I think there's a world of room between going totally low carb and taking insulin for pregnant people diagnosed with GD.

    I hope the OP has followed the recommendations to consult an RD and has listened to the advice of the other women in this thread who have actually had the condition.

    I am not averse to the idea of low-carbing during pregnancy since I did it myself, but I don't think in a medical situation where professional advice is called for that saying anything other than to consult one's doctor is prudent.

    I couldn't agree more!
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