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[adiasplat]

I had my gestational diabetes training yesterday. After crying like a baby before I tried pricking my finger for the first time, everything was fine.... But. (Of course there is a but

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YMMV, FWIW and the rest of the alphabet...

[kristinholt]

I basically told the whole diet to kiss my @$$. The dietician wanted me on 1800 calories when I wasn't gaining weight. I gained 4 lbs through my whole pregnancy. Yeah, I fail at compliance. But I ate when I was hungry, and made better choices.

My baby was 8 lbs, 6 oz, which was smaller than my second child.

I think the whole gestational diabetes thing is a load of crap. I've seen people go nuts about it and end up making themselves entirely crazy.

[tikizeekbaby]

I was borderline... they never gave me a caloric count to "aim for" but instead had me make sure to counter carbs and sugars with protein... so if I had a banana, I had to have cheese. If I had crackers, I had to have peanut butter, etc. Basically they had me cancelling out the sugars.

[mazey_daze]

I'm a little confused. Why do they want you to consume so many calories? Also, it's ketoacidosis you have to worry about. Ketosis is what happens when you're on the Atkins diet and your body goes into the fat burning stage. As long as you are eating a small amount of carbs you will not be going into ketosis, but you have to worry about ketoacidosis if you become sick, or if your sugar goes very low or very high like over 200. The testing strips here are called Ketostix regent. You pee on them first thing in the morning. As long as you get a trace or small amount of ketones you are fine.

[magdalene74]

ketosis is also bad when you are pregnant, good when you are not pregnant because your body is burning fat (yay, and the point of atkins) but when you are pregnant the residue of burning the fat is a type of poison for the baby... so to be avoided...

[azzychan]

Im a little confused about the calories too. When I was pregnant, this was my "diet":

Breakfast:

1 Carb (NO FRUIT)
1 Protein

Snack

1 Carb
1 Protein

Lunch

3 Carb
no set amt. of protein

Snack

1 or 2 Carb
no set amt. of protein

Dinner

5 Carb MAX
no set amt. of protein

Snack (maybe -- didn't have to have this one)

1 or 2 Carb
no set amt. of protein

Max amt. of carbs per day = 175 I believe

[magdalene74]

wow, they want me eating way more carbs at breakfast than you... three! and four at lunch.... two at each of three snacks... i had to tell em look, i cant eat that many carbs or im gonna float in insulin... and even cutting it back to close to what you are eating i am still taking 320 units of insulin per DAY...

[miss_shuggah]

i got tested early (about 9 weeks) because everyone in my family is diabetic and i'm really overweight. i did both tests, 1 hour and 3 hour. my one hour wasn't as high as yours but still high so they gave me the 3 hour. anyway, after the class i wanted to cry too!
my diet is much stricter than yours though and i'm finding that i'm staying a bit hungry!

breakfast:
1 starch
2oz protein

snack:
1 starch
1 protein

lunch:
2 starches
3oz protein

snack:
1 starch
1 protein

dinner:
2 starches
3oz protein

snack:
1 starch
1 protein
(non-starchy vegetables as desired at all meals)

my blood sugar has been fine except the first prick after fasting is always a little higher. they want the highest at 90 and the closest i've come is 97.