Here’s a recipe that’s been around in the family for a while with a little twist. It was also a great recipe for me during my time with the gestational diabetes, because it is packed with protein (meat), simple carbs (onion and tomato), complex carbs and fiber (beans). If you’re… Continue reading
After looking everywhere for a couple of weeks, I finally found my meal log during my time with GD. I looked carefully through all the meals and my own glucose reactions to them to put together 5 daily menu ideas for Gestational Diabetes consisting in 3 meals and 3 snacks… Continue reading
Snacking during GD is a sort of double-edged sword. On one hand you don’t have to measure your blood sugar after eating it, so there’s a lot more leeway on what you can eat… but there’s also a lot more chance on not balancing it well enough, or not eating… Continue reading
When I had GD (Gestational Diabetes), my most feared meal of the day was breakfast. This was due to my metabolism being a little sluggish in the mornings, and so it was hard for my body to eat 2 servings of complex carbs, 2 servings of protein and 1 serving… Continue reading
Cuando tenía como 26 semanas de embarazo con mi segundo hijo, me diagnosticaron con Diabetes Gestacional. Como mis resultados estaban apenas por encima de donde deberían haber estado, al principio entré en una etapa de negación: es un error de laboratorio, ¡cómo voy a tener Diabetes Gestacional! Pensé que me… Continue reading
(Para español, haz click aquí) When I was about 26 weeks pregnant with my second child, I was diagnosed with GD. As my numbers were so very slightly higher than there were supposed to, at first I went through a denial phase: it’s a lab error, I don’t have Gestational… Continue reading
