Gestational Diabetes - food ideas

[redcrx]

Has anyone been diagnosed with GD got any good ideas for recipes at all?

I have only seen a nurse as yet and havnt been given an appt to see dietician so Im trying to come up with ways of improving my diet without help, and Im craving sugar and sweets :(

Has anyone got any tips. I have avoided sugar since last Thursday and so far all my home blood checks have been a lot lower than the limits the nurse set me which makes it even harder to refuse myself chocolate.

Ive got 10 weeks to go of this, and before anyone says I am well aware of the risk to baby if this went undiscovered, and i wont just ignore the diet.

I just need a bit of help

[warpig3]

Is it just sugar you cant have redcrx? What about natural sugars such as you would find in fruit, are they ok?

[redcrx]

i can eat small amounts of fruit or have fruit juice when eaten at the end of a meal. this means that the sugar isnt absorbed so quickly as my body is busy digesting my mail meal. Well thats what it seems to mean to me anyway.

[warpig3]

Thats really disappointing that they haven't give you an appt with the dietician, what are you supposed to do, just muddle through?

I am sure you have checked t'internet but what about diabetic foods, can you have them?

[redcrx]

i presume so and weightwatchers diet yoghurts if i want something sweet.

Problem is Im not so sure about having too much sweetener as its a chemical

[Goodsoulette]

Any diabetic diet is similar to the GI diet. You need to eat complex carbohydrates inplace of the simple sugars. Basically white rice, pasta should be out of the equation replace all of those with a brown version, sweet potatoes/yam are better for you. Good fruits are apples and berries. Watermelon is very sugary surprisingly stay away from them.
Breakfast should be whole grains, natural yoghurt, eggs etc

Main meal - Your dietician will tell you how many calories to eat each day. She will show you a medium sized plate and tell you that half of that should be veg or saladthen about 2/3 of the remainder should be complex carbs and the left over protein.

Milk is high in lactose so don't frink loads of this either.

Swimming is a good way of raising your activity level when pregnant, and this will help keep those insulin recpetors in check.

BAsically, you need to eat 3 medium meals a day, and 3 snacks, all avoiding simple sugars.

[Goodsoulette]

Watch out for the old aspartamine, I have PCOS and was advised to follow a diabetic diet to stop myself gaining weight rapidly. I used artificial sweetners and ended up with an addiction to them. They were just as bad as sugar crashes.

[redcrx]

thanks GS.

apparently basmati rice is the only complex carb white rice and the only nice tasting one, my best mate told me earlier that its all she can recall about diets lol

The nurse i saw didnt even mention snacks so ive been rather hungry by teatime thinking i could only have 3 main meals so as not to mess blood results.

Ive also found some GD menu plans today and they state milk ok and cheese so Im getting more and more confused as advised very little milk.

cant wait to see the dietician and get a list of dos and donts.

[redcrx]

will certainly watch out for the aspartime as im not sure about eating the fake sugars and sweeteners anyway, plus they leave a strange taste.

[Goodsoulette]

Lactose is a simple sugar though, if you have more than 2 glasses a day you are looking for trouble.

You are bang on about basmati rice.

If you have to have a white carb like pasta or bread hen eat it with protein and it takes longer to break down, so you dont overload your body with sugar. If you need any more advice REdcrx, just holler cos I have followed this type of diet for years (apart from when I am being a little fat piggy).

[redcrx]

thank you so much hun i may need a lot of help lol.

Ive just cooked a nice stirfry with plenty of noodles and fresh veg and a simple chow mein sauce. In fact it was so nice, i could eat it all again. Thats bound to mean that its no good for me as i seem to have an allergy to healthy foods pmsl