Gestational diabetes: “is a condition characterized by elevated blood sugar brought on by pregnancy… The condition affects the mother in late pregnancy – usually beginning sometime around weeks 20 through 24 – after the baby is formed… Gestational diabetes ends once the pregnancy has ended, but it increases the risk of the mother developing type 2 diabetes later in life.”<\/p>\n
I am 0.1 away from being officially diagnosed with gestational diabetes.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not impressed.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s mind boggling how much starch and sugars a person can consume in a day – I hadn’t really noticed it until I couldn’t eat these things.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Fruit juice from concentrate, a lot of cereals, breads (except for whole grains),\u00c2\u00a0pasta, rice (except for brown rice), etc. are now out of my diet.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m limited to water, milk, and unsweetened juices; limited amounts of fruit; only certain kinds of vegetables; meat; cheeses.\u00c2\u00a0 The good thing is I’m discovering how many specially made sugar free products there are out there – I’ve discovered sugar free chocolate ice cream (I swear this has saved my life – I love chocolate and to be forced to go completely without it was driving me crazy), and my husband even found sugar free cookies.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0I was borderline gestational diabetic with my first child, but I was not disciplined at all.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t even attempt to reduce my sugar\/starch intake.\u00c2\u00a0 As a result, I got really sick – I retained a lot of water and was really, really tired.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t want to go there again!\u00c2\u00a0 But I am noticing I don’t have as much energy which is hard for me to deal with.\u00c2\u00a0 But as my husband says, I’ll just have to suck it up and accept it.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank goodness I’ve got less than 2 months to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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