Typical diet with Gestational Diabetes

[Stillmonday]

Just been diagnosed with GD and done nothing but read read read about it.

Would be interested to see some if you typical days food diary. Breakfast, lunch, dinner & snacks please.

Just after ideas..

It's a couple of years since I was pregnant, but these are the main things I remember... I really struggled with breakfast readings but never used to eat it before getting pregnant anyway, so would have loads of fruit & berries with Greek yoghurt mid morning. Nuts or cheese as snacks. Lunch I could tolerate those "thins", like thin bread crusts, with plenty of meat and salad in. Dinner was often meat and potatoes and veg as potatoes didn't seem to bother me either. Or spicy chicken in pitta with salad (I had that a LOT!). I took a huge bar of chocolate in to hospital with me and ate it all the morning after I'd had my DD, while waiting to be discharged. It was amazing Good luck!!

Breakfast low carb cereal
Snack apple
Lunch cheese sandwich, wholemeal bread and a peach
Dinner usual but smaller portion of carbs.

Lots of sugar free drinks.

It's not too hard, it's a bit weird thinking about carbs instead of fat but it's also quite fun! I've been having strawberries and full fat cream

Yes! I've been eating loads of cheese and nuts too!

Breakfast - eggs, bacon, sausages. Seeded toast with egg, peanut butter, butter, cream cheese

Lunch - seeded bread or oatcakes with cheese, ham, fish, eggs. Salad. Fruit and Greek yoghurt

Dinner - fish/meat, veg. Quinoa with meat and veg mixed in. Small amount of brown pasta. Weight watchers yoghurt.

Snacks - babybels, nuts, olives.

Eggs & wholemeal toast for brekkie, I found all cereals (even no added sugar Alpen, porridge etc.) sent my blood sugar too high.

One thing I found really really worked well was Broccoli. Eat bad food with Broccoli (for example pizza, a McDonald's burger) and my blood sugar was fine!! Finding this out saved me, as I could have the bad food I craved by just adding broccoli to it.

Read low GL books, the combination of food is really important