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Angel321
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
New Question - NOT food related....OMG!!! 
For those that have the glucose monitors (or did) - do you find that any one finger hurt less?? I know i'm a major wuss, but it hurts EVERY TIME...
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
Can you turn the dial down to a lower number?
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| Posted 1/15/09 3:57 PM |
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Angel321
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
Posted by MrsRbk
Can you turn the dial down to a lower number?
i have it on 2...i tried 1 and didn't feel the pinch... maybe i'll try that again with the new needles (i have been using the sample that came with the kit and got my script yesterday)....see if that helps...
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| Posted 1/15/09 3:59 PM |
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
Posted by davenjess
Posted by MrsRbk
Can you turn the dial down to a lower number?
i have it on 2...i tried 1 and didn't feel the pinch... maybe i'll try that again with the new needles (i have been using the sample that came with the kit and got my script yesterday)....see if that helps...
Do you use the tip of your finger? If so, try using the side, it hurts less.
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| Posted 1/15/09 4:57 PM |
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
Hey Jess even though I passed as of now who is to say when I retake it at 28 wks.. But I still want to join your board... Since I found out I was pregnant I have been on my GD diet... And as proof I passed...
Remember what some can eat others may not be able to...
Breakfast----
Try Natures own bread - wheat with fiber it has only 9grams of carbs per slice.. with 2 egss sunnyside up and cheese for breakfast...
Yogaurt Dannon makes one with only 17 grams of carbs..
Snacks----
100 cal snack packs are great...
carrot sticks
cheese - Kraft sharp cut in chunks...
cheese its.. I found you can have 17 pieces as a snack...
Dinner---
Meat
1/2 cup of rice or potatoes
veggies...
Dressing is about 3-4 grams of carbs... Italian that is
When I think of more things I have been eating I will let you know.. And if you need coffee or tea.. drink one cup in the morning with splenda and your numbers will be ok
As much as they tell you to drink milk when you have GD 1 glass of milk counts as a snack.. so limit your milk intake..
If you have any questions please ask me I have been through all of this before and I know how hard it is...
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| Posted 1/15/09 5:31 PM |
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StressedNoMore
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
Posted by davenjess
New Question - NOT food related....OMG!!!
For those that have the glucose monitors (or did) - do you find that any one finger hurt less?? I know i'm a major wuss, but it hurts EVERY TIME...
use the side of your finger and switch them up daily... after a while you will get tough skin on your fingers and it will hurt less.. I still test every day...
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| Posted 1/15/09 5:32 PM |
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Angel321
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
Posted by StressedNoMore
Posted by davenjess
New Question - NOT food related....OMG!!!
For those that have the glucose monitors (or did) - do you find that any one finger hurt less?? I know i'm a major wuss, but it hurts EVERY TIME...
use the side of your finger and switch them up daily... after a while you will get tough skin on your fingers and it will hurt less.. I still test every day...
yep - been doing that too... i guess i'm just a wuss!!
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| Posted 1/15/09 5:38 PM |
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Angel321
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
Okay - for anyone new that finds this - let me add the list of snacks I was given by the nutritionist:
Gestational Snack List:
Each choice is 1 carb serving = 11 to 20 grams of Total Carbohydrates
1. 30 large oyster crackers
2. 6 low-fat Ritz crackers
3. 1 cup tomato soup (w/water)
4. 12 Harvest Crisp crackers
5. 20 low fat Cheese Nips
6. 14 low fat Wheat Thins
7. 1 small banana (4 oz)
8. 1 small piece of fruit
9. 3 cups low fat popcorn
10. 6 Saltine crackers
11. 8 animal crackers
12. 29 reduced fat Cheezits
13. 8 low-fat Townhouse crackers
14. 8 ounces of lo-fat milk
15. Nabisco 100 calorie packs
16. 12 grapes (3 oz)
17. 3/4 ounce of pretzels
18. 1 'low fat, sugar free' yogurt - ex: Dannon light & fit or Yoplait light
(OKAY to add protein foods, heart healthy fats & vegetables with snacks).
So basically - she gave me a GREAT list of snacks and not much else....
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| Posted 1/15/09 5:41 PM |
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rmdrn125
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
 I am going to the nutritionist tomorrow and i am overwhelmed.. seems like breakkfast is sooo hard to figure out, i really despise eggs and love carbs!! I'm screwed!! This thread was a great idea.. i've been trying to stick to proteins, but truthfully by the time i can make myself a meal i'm soooo hungry i just eat cottage cheese!
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| Posted 1/15/09 7:12 PM |
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Angel321
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
Posted by rmdrn125
I am going to the nutritionist tomorrow and i am overwhelmed.. seems like breakkfast is sooo hard to figure out, i really despise eggs and love carbs!! I'm screwed!! This thread was a great idea.. i've been trying to stick to proteins, but truthfully by the time i can make myself a meal i'm soooo hungry i just eat cottage cheese!
as the girls have said and i have learned over the last 3 days - it's quite the learning experience..
breakfast for me is now a:
weight watchers whole grain english muffin with 2 scrambeled eggs.
again - as everyone has said - if you can cut a carb with protein - it helps. it also helped with my morning eating naseua (i'm NOT a breakfast person because eating early in the morning has always made me naseuas, since i was a kid)...
i had a high number this morning - 107 - but i know it's because i had a carb snack with NO protein....
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Angel321
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
another ???
are you girls using the ketone sticks too????
Yesterday - came up with Moderate (called the nurse - she said because i didn't eat carbs with my dinner snack - fine).
Today - came up 'trace' & my sugar was a little over (they want up to 95 - mine was 107)....i had carbs as my snack...should i have cut that with protein to be better and have a better number and ketones??
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| Posted 1/16/09 10:34 AM |
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MrsRbk
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
Posted by davenjess
another ???
are you girls using the ketone sticks too????
Yesterday - came up with Moderate (called the nurse - she said because i didn't eat carbs with my dinner snack - fine).
Today - came up 'trace' & my sugar was a little over (they want up to 95 - mine was 107)....i had carbs as my snack...should i have cut that with protein to be better and have a better number and ketones??
I don't have to check with ketone sticks.
But I would have a protein with your evening snack along with the carbs.
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| Posted 1/16/09 10:40 AM |
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Angel321
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
Posted by MrsRbk
Posted by davenjess
another ???
are you girls using the ketone sticks too????
Yesterday - came up with Moderate (called the nurse - she said because i didn't eat carbs with my dinner snack - fine).
Today - came up 'trace' & my sugar was a little over (they want up to 95 - mine was 107)....i had carbs as my snack...should i have cut that with protein to be better and have a better number and ketones??
I don't have to check with ketone sticks.
But I would have a protein with your evening snack along with the carbs.
Right - i'm still adjusting to eating that late...i know it's not THAT late - but i never used to eat anything past 10:00.... I almost 100% forgot the snack last night and then it hit me at like 10:30 - WHOOPS...
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| Posted 1/16/09 10:45 AM |
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Angel321
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Re: GD Girls....Official Thread Maybe??
i actually do have another ??? - food/drink related...
what do you girls DRINK??? I've been sustaining ONLY on water and i'm DIEING for something with flavor... I cheated and took 2 sips from a fruit bunch bottle today because i just needed FLAVOR...
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| Posted 1/16/09 11:08 AM |
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Re: GD Girls.....Support & Q & A Thread
just water, decaf coffee, herbal tea, and milk for me. maybe one of those sugar free lemonades would be good???
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| Posted 1/16/09 12:18 PM |
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Re: GD Girls.....Support & Q & A Thread
Posted by davenjess
New Question - NOT food related....OMG!!!
For those that have the glucose monitors (or did) - do you find that any one finger hurt less?? I know i'm a major wuss, but it hurts EVERY TIME...
Obviously, I don't have GD (DW did, though), but I've been Type 1 diabetic for 23 years.
Get a book on the Glycemic Index. It will really help let you know what foods you can and can't eat. Through years of trial and error, I figured out a lot of what is now in those books....
Don't use your pinky!!!! Man, that finger hurts!  I personally prefer the index finger, but obviously use the other ones as well.
For me, I have very little problem with pizza. Not sure why, but it doesn't affect me very much. Bagels are a HUGE no-no, however.... 
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| Posted 1/16/09 12:49 PM |
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Angel321
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Re: GD Girls.....Support & Q & A Thread
okay, so since i'm the one with all the ????'s and your answers always make me feel more 'normal'...
little background: both dave & i are night people. He works 3 days a week until 9:00 at night....so we tend to spend our nights together (obviously). We don't go to bed until 1:00 or even 2:00 sometimes because we're watching a movie, or just hanging out, etc. This has been fine - we go to bed late, get up for work at like 8:45...and on our days off (his are tuesday and friday, mine is the normal weekend), we sleep LATE...until whenever our body clock wakes us up.
When we met with the GD Nutritionist, i explained our sleep schedule and she was like, NO WAY. That your body makes more sugar (i could have that wrong) when you are sleeping...so on the weekends, i need to get up early and eat and test, etc. I did that this weekend and now i'm paying for it. I've never been this tired in my life (and i've had mono/epstein barr 3 times)...i'm angry, bitter and upset because of how tired i am...
We meet with the Maternal Fetal doc tomorrow - so i'm obviously going to mention this to her...but is this normal? Was everyone else told not to sleep late??? I feel so depressed and tired....you'd think with the new diet - i'd be FULL of energy...
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| Posted 1/19/09 10:58 AM |
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Angel321
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Re: GD Girls.....Support & Q & A Thread
saw the specialist. NO MEDICATION right now...but she does think it WILL eventually come to that...for now - she said my numbers are OUTSTANDING - NOT at all what she expected based on my failing numbers on the 1 and 3 hour test.
we will have growth sonos starting at 24 weeks and at 32 weeks will start the non stress tests and other things...
Also have to schedule an echo cardiogram for the baby...we shall see. She also wants to keep an eye on my blood pressure - she said any time i'm i a store that has a cuff - use it and write it down.... okay then!
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Re: GD Girls.....Support & Q & A Thread
joining this thread....just found out I have GD at 32 weeks. 
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Re: GD Girls.....Support & Q & A Thread
Posted by davenjess
i actually do have another ??? - food/drink related...
what do you girls DRINK??? I've been sustaining ONLY on water and i'm DIEING for something with flavor... I cheated and took 2 sips from a fruit bunch bottle today because i just needed FLAVOR...
hi. i'm totally crashing here  as i'm not pregnant or TTC......but.............i couldn't help myself 
i wanted to tell you that for the last 4 months or so i've been trying to follow a low glycemic diet in hopes that i'll lose weight and more importantly reduce the massive amounts of sugar/carbs i was eating. that said.........
i get REALLY sick of drinking water so i feel your pain! i discovered this iced tea from trader joes that i am seriously addicted to. it is unsweetened blueberry pomegranate green tea. i'm not even an iced tea lover but this tea is SO good and has 0 sugar!!! not sure if you have a trader joes near you but i figured i'd throw it out there!
also--the book i've been following is called "The Formula" by gene and joyce daoust. it's an older book but it has some pretty good recipes in it and all the carbs are balanced out by protein.
i admit i don't know much about GD but the diet seems very similar to what is discussed in the book!
good luck!!!
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Angel321
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Re: GD Girls.....Support & Q & A Thread
Posted by jennandrob
joining this thread....just found out I have GD at 32 weeks.
oh Jenn - i'm so sorry.....
it is a shock and i'm STILL dealing - a few weeks later...
if you have ANY questions - please ask...the women on this thread have been OUTSTANDING....
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Re: GD Girls.....Support & Q & A Thread
when i had GD breafast was never breakfast food. i was also told by my nutritionist to never have in the morning Juice or fruit. it was protein and carb only. she said you are more sensitive to the sugars first thing in the morning. so don't add anything for breakfast that could cause a spike. fruit was ok later in the day. still no juice though. that was a complete no no.
as for breakfast... wonder whole grain white bread. (has more fiber and more protein than most of the bread labelled wole wheat... and the protein and fiber can help slow down the sbsorption of the carbs which keeps your numbers lower and more stable) with some form of deli meat... ham, turkey, roast beef. and a slice of cheese. not exactly breakfast food, but its high protein, low carb and my numbers were always good afterward. (but i will say i did get sick of sandwhiches after 7 months of it... i started with the diet at like 12 weeks becauseof a history of GD)
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Re: GD Girls.....Support & Q & A Thread
I have a very different breakfast experience with GD. I eat two eggs, a whole wheat English Muffin & 4 oz. of OJ (the low sugar kind) every morning. or I can eat/drink a smoothie made with plain yogurt, frozen fruit and a Tb. of peanut butter and a slice of whole wheat toast (I eat the high figer kind).
It totally depends on how your body reacts to the food. It can also change by the day!!
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Re: GD Girls.....Support & Q & A Thread
Posted by annie
It totally depends on how your body reacts to the food. It can also change by the day!!
Totally agree with this! Some people can do whole grain/whole wheat breads.. I can't. The only type of bread my body tolerates is Weight Watchers Rye or Whole Wheat.
I can also have certain kinds of oatmeal for breakfast, but usually have to have a hardboiled egg along it with it. 9 times out of 10 my blood sugars are terrific, but there's sometimes that one time, or even two times that the oatmeal gives me a reading over 120.
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| Posted 1/30/09 9:22 AM |
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Angel321
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Re: GD Girls.....Support & Q & A Thread
for me what has been working in the morning is weight watchers english muffins and butter... some days i make scrambeled eggs, but MOST days i don't (too tired)...
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