The total amount of net carbs you eat in a day is one number to watch, and the total number of net carbs you eat all at once is another number to watch.
So lets say you limit yourself to 50 net carbs a day. (net carbs is total carbs minus fiber carbs.) A snack is sometimes suggested to be 15 net carbs. (Yum, chunk of cheese and handful of pecans!) Offhand I dont know the net carb of an apple but you can look that up and think about it.
1. "is it important that I also eat (breads, pasta, potatoes and rice in small quantities)?"
Yes, eating these foods in small quantities is possible. But to each individual what is considered small, medium and large may differ. What you may consider small to another person may be medium. You must test preprandial and postprandial to see how much, if any, you can tolerate.
2. The difference between simple and complex carbs can be found on the GI.
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.
however, feel free to eat all the complex carbs you like, such as those found in veggies, whole grains, nuts, seeds, etc.
If you drink soda, eliminate that from your diet and make water your drink of choice. Many people report losing quite a few pounds with just this one change.
Make sure you eat high quality, lean protein with every meal and snack. A good snack might be an apple with peanut butter, where the apple is the fiber and the peanut butter is the protein.
Well in my last doc visit I had sugar in my urine, she asked what I had had for breakfast I told her I had on orange and a banana with 2 slices of toast, with a tea with a suger in it! So she said their was allot of carbs and thats prob why their was sugar present when they tested it. But I have to go for a glucose tolerance test Wednesday just to make sure thats what it is! . . .
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
Vegetables always seem to make me feel full. When i eat foods with a lot of unhealthy carbs i always seem to still be hungry. I hope this helps!
are you eating carbs or protein? maybe try a smaller amount of food and keeping track of your calories? I've read that protein can help when your feeling sick. If your not getting any exercise, maybe try walking.
I am overweight to start with so I am very concerned about gaining to much weight. This is the approach I am planning on taking. I am also going to see what else I can find out about the GD diet, as I am concerned about getting GD, so I would prefer to proactive about things.
I have serious sweets cravings alot too. I try to at least make sure that whatever I'm eating is low in something, either fat or sugar or carbs. Like angel food cake is fat free and I'll dip it in fat free cool whip. It still has alot of carbs. But it's better than eating a big piece of chocolate cake that's got the carbs and the fat. (Warning: do NOT get the fat free AND sugar free angel food cake tho! i got severe gas and gas pains for like 24 hours!!!
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.
a bag of low fat torilla chips and a water and a sugar free drink. afternoon snack is usually a banana or an kind of fruit. For dinner he eats a large portion of meat, some kind of starch (rice or potatoes)
and ususally 2 different vegetables broccoli or green beans.
At 8 o'clock he is starving again. He gets a lite snack sugar free jello or pudding and goes to bed and then he wakes up starving sometimes during the night or in the morning he acts like he never ate before.
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