So I met the disease - diabetes - while pregnant in my 15th week with my second born... what a nightmare, 2 weeks on a diet then my sugar did not come down, kept going up one morning waking with 22.5... then glugophage another week then hallo hospital for a week to get my sliding scale working for the rest of my pregnancy.... now you all know a pregnant lady with her cravings so now here I am will all my cravings and not allowed to eat anything ( that is how i felt). But okay kept going because didn't want harm to come to my little baby boy. Due to Diabetes as well as High blood pressure ( which i only get when i am pregnant) my boy was born 6 weeks prem, he was in ICU for 2 weeks because his sugar was 0 and they stuggled to get it up. Felt like it was all my fault and I wanted to scream in anger at everyone and everything. So they usually say gestational diabetes go away - NORMALLY. so i just pretended it was gone. Untill begining of April this year when my husband asked me to please think of my kids and him in just denying it all. so off we went to the Dr and here we are. I am injecting 4 times a day and each time i feel like fainting because I hate absolutely hate a needle. Trying to eat healthing but not actually knowing how... Need some direction and ideas and examples. Saw the diabetic dr yesterday and he said he is sure with some weightloss, excersise and lifestyle changes we will be able to reduce my injections or even just get me onto tablets. So here we go lets do this, i don't want to inject anymore, i hate it. So please anybody out there help.
I work as a manager in a kitchen so it's hard enough to try and find all healthy stuff right there between all the lekker burgers, confectionary, fried foods, lasagne, pasta's and sweets.
Any examples and ideeas for what one can have for breakfast, lunch and dinner and must i snack inbetween?
Dr said yesterday to cut down on Carbs - Starch.