I found out I was a diabetic when i found out I was pregnant i thought the same thing that I couldn't eat anything what really does it is the carbs if you eat carbs just eat a little and no sweets at all
This means that your best source of carbs are vegetables (rahter than bread, rice, pasta etc). With diabetes, fruits also need to be limited (particularly the sweet tropical fruits) as they are high in sugar.
If you do eat foods like rice and bread, you should eat brown rice and wholegrain bread. As foods with more fibre will slow absorption. But still only eat in moderation. Make s ure you eat fat and protein with your carbs. This will also slow absorption.
Are you scared of carbs because of weight gain or you have like a phobia? If its due to the possibility of gaining weight, chill out babe. I went for a few years totally avoiding carbs and I lost weight! I ended up going through a bit of depression and started not caring about weight gain. Gained about 10 kilo's Now I'm on a diet and having some carbs. I feel much fuller and healthier for introducing it to my diet. I'm still losing weight. Slowly though because I am type 1 diabetic.
ve been trying to eat healthy and I have shrimp salads or chicken salads for dinner, breakfast is usually kix cereal or honey nut cherios with a banana and coffee. For lunch just have a sandwich on a healthy bread and use mustard instead of mayo. For snacks I enjoy fruit , pretzels, yogurt, rice cakes, or carrots. There's a great website called myfitnesspal.com it has been helping me out alot! Goodluck and I hope this helped!
We have come up with recipes for cookies, pancakes, spaghetti sauce, chili, banana bread, etc. We also do tacos with corn tortillas and sometimes have 'beanie tacos' (that my kids really like) where we put refried beans, onions, and sauce on the corn tortillas. Rice Chex and Honey Nut Chex work well for cereals. Does any of that sound like it would work for your family?
Hain weight healthy! So First of all you should prefer carbs. Just like brown rice. Whole grain bread etc. and there are a lot of healthy fats. High in calories. Like avocado, peanut butter and olive oil. Also try to eat the high fat versions.
Just like that:
Breakfast:
-2 cups of oatmeal, one cup of whole fat milk, Greek yoghurt with 10% fat and one large table spoon peanut butter. That add one banana.
For me, I cannot eat potatoes or carrots at all. Obviously any white bread. Probiotic bread works the best. For breakfast I usually have a whole wheat English muffin or tortilla with peanut butter, and half a banana if in the tortilla. Snack I usually have milk with protein powder. Lunch salad with toast or crackers. Dinner stir fry or pasta. Just find what works for you, and watch the amounts of carbohydrates. Once you get used to it it's really not that bad.
If possible use organic to avoid possible harmful additives ., nut butters if he has no allergy,olive oil are good . Feed small meals through out the day , this is better than feeding one big meal .Offer lots of complex carbs to your child,toast made with whole grain bread , breads, pasta's aswell as veg and fruits .Supplement the diet with high calorie smoothies using a variety of fruits and crushed ice ,milk and flax seed oil, flax supplies a healthy form of fat.
Just over one hour after eating two jelly toasts, Powerbar, banana and apple with orange juice and skim milk it had dropped to 93 and 95!!! I am not diabetic but since it runs in my family I am keeping tabs on my b.g. This seems odd. What is going on?
simple carbs are those found in sugary foods, white breads and regular pasta, sodas, etc. Simple carbs are broken down quickly and if not used right away for energy, will be stored as fat. These are the ones that should be avoided.
Complex carbs are those found in vegetables, most fruits and whole grains. Complex carbs are the dietary fiber we need, to fill us up. These take longer to break down and are not absorbed, as fat.
Don't beat yourself up too badly over it, I'm in the same boat as you... I don't really overeat, and the things that I do eat, I think out and try to make healthy meals, but I still ended up with gestational diabetes. Unfortunately, it's just something that happens because of all of the weird things that happen in pregnancy. I've learned to just go with it...
That being said, I was advised to count how many grams of carbs that I take in and what foods contain them.
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