Hm. That just doesn't seem like enough to me. No calcium? Weird. I would contact my dr office and ask their opinion. I have been told to have several small meals throughout the day and eat when I'm hungry.

HI, I'm a fellow GD mom-to-be.

My dietitian has me eating three meals a day, and three snacks.

I'm getting my calcium from some of my protein sources - yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese, milk.

She told me to start building each meal with a carb base (30g for breakfast and up to 60g for lunch and dinner). Then add enough protein to balance the carbs out. Veggies are unlimited as long as they aren't starchy.

My snacks are supposed to be a good balance of carbs and protein, too (apple and peanut butter, cheese and crackers, almonds, cottage cheese).

As long as I make good healthy choices, my calorie intake ends up being 2000 - 2200 per day. I'm not gaining extra weight and my sugar numbers are excellent.

Wishing you lots of luck, figuring out how your body responds to sugar is really trial and error. And calcium is important!

checking back in after my visit with a dietician. This is what mine told me and you can go from there. I hope it helps. I was told to follow a 2000-2200 cal diet. Now that to me is a ton of food. I was told if I couldn't eat that much not to worry but it is allowed.

I was told to eat 15 carb choices, 8-10 meat choices (includes cheese and eggs) and 7-9 fat choices per day.

Have to be careful because milk is considered a carb so you have to include it as your carb choice. In fact my dietician told me to drink a glass at lunch and dinner (depending on the fat content of your milk depends on how much you can drink).

That breaks down to at breakfast 2 carbs, 0-1 meat and 2 fat choices
lunch 3 carbs, 3 meats and 2 fat choices
dinner 3 carb, 5 meats and 2 fat choices.
3 snacks / snack 1 2 carb choices and 1 fat
snack 2 - 2-3carb and 1-2 meat
snack 3 - 2 carb and 2 fat.

I was told absolutely no fruit or fruit juice for breakfast at all and to try to stay away from fruit juice and eat the fruit because fruit has higher fiber.

for my morning snack I can easily have 8oz of skim milk to cover my carb choices and a small snack and in the afternoon I can have my fruit and cheese and crackers (for the 1-2 servings of meat).

I hope this helps and you can easily get your calcium. I was upset by how much meat they wanted me to eat until I saw that I could eat other things to satisfy these meats instead of just beef, chicken, poultry and fish.

I was even told that I didn't need to give up ice cream either just go to light ice cream lower the portion and it satisfies 2 of my carb requirements for the day.