More of a rant

[Babsi68]

This gestational diabetes thing is really making me frustrated. My levels don't balance out ever or come to a pattern, they spike even when I just eat veggies like green beans or zucchini, and I'm starving! To top it off, my 18mo is at the stage where she doesn't like to always eat unless mommy eats them too but she won't eat the things I have to eat so if I make her something different (like Mac and cheese for lunch while I eat a salad without dressing packed full of protein) I have to take a bite here and there to get her to eat it and then there goes my levels.

I'm so afraid that I'm going to be put on medication when in reality I don't think I need it. I think my levels of 145 are my normal and I feel too restricted. I've tried telling my doc and my dietician but I just get the same thing over and over again that its all for baby's health and ill get used to it and I'm all for doing what's best for my baby but I can't keep starving like this right? I mean for breakfast I eat 1 egg, then typically a sugar free snack like jello or cheese, lunch is usually a salad with hardboiled eggs, chicken, shredded carrots, and bacon pieces most times no dressing but once in a while ill splurge and measure out dressing and dinner is green beans or roasted zucchini.

It's not like I'm eating McDonald's for every meal or deep frying everything and making horrible choices for food, I just am a typical 23 year old mother of an 18mo with a job who doesn't always have the time to cook a perfect meal and cooking the fastest thing possible is sometimes the only option. I'm losing weight which is normal but I think I'm losing too much and that can't be good!

Sorry for the book I'm just so frustrated with it all.

[Babsi68]

The problem is it would be changing the diet for all of us and buying a crap ton of food that might end up going to waste after a couple weeks not to mention eating as healthy as the paleo diet is so darn expensive and unfortunately that's money we don't have seeing as we're preparing for a new baby it's just an expense we can't sacrifice right now. Eating more veggies is fine and more protein is fine but when it comes down to it I hear all these ladies who have GD that say they feel like they're eating too much where as I can't eat enough. I'm also hearing ladies that didn't have to do diets at all they more less did a trial and told them to cut back this and that and then be more active.

None of this is fun and if there's a higher chance of having this with the next pregnancy, I think that influences how many children were gonna have for sure

[Sarah765]

Im sorry you have to go through that!  You should look up some Paleo recipies, there are some really delicious things that your daughter might really like, and still fit in with what you have to eat.