If you have been diagnosed with insulin resistance or gestational diabetes , your healthcare provider or dietitian will teach you how to manage your condition. You will be asked to eat differently and monitor your blood sugars during your pregnancy, the goal being to keep your blood glucose within a normal range so that you don't gain too much weight.
This will also help to keep your baby from having additional problems during and after birth. Your OB provider might be concerned that your baby will grow to be larger than average and high blood sugars can make both you and your baby sick. When you are eating for gestational diabetes, you need to eat less sugar and fewer starchy carbohydrates. Sugar, rice, pasta, and starchy vegetables such as corn, potatoes, beets, and peas can all cause your blood sugar to go higher than normal.
Most of us love these foods, but they can make your blood sugar spike and then drop quickly afterwards -- making you want to eat more. This causes erratic blood sugar levels. Also, the starchy carbohydrates can make it easier for you to gain weight. In order to manage your blood sugar levels with gestational diabetes, you can follow some basic rules :. As you are eating for gestational diabetes, you should spread your intake of carbohydrates throughout the day.
Eating some protein with your carbohydrates helps your body keep your blood sugars stable. If your after-breakfast blood glucose levels are outside the target range, you may be asked to shift some carbohydrates starch and fruit to other snacks or meals.
Some good food choices for gestational diabetes include:. Do not think of yourself as being on a diet. You need adequate nutrition for your health and your baby's growth and development. Cutting back too much on calories and weight gain can increase your risk of a low birth weight infant.
I passed, and was genuinely shocked. My results were totally normal. In fact, they were better than good. That was because early in pregnancy hormones result in increased insulin secretion and decreased glucose production, improving the insulin resistance I suffer from.
That starts to turn around 24 to 28 weeks, when gestational diabetes usually begins. And within two weeks, my fasting blood sugars started to rise. And by 23 weeks, I was officially a gestational diabetic. As I was already doing all I could to control my sugars, walking each night and eating well, I knew I probably faced medication this time around.
But in many ways, my experience has been different. Last time, my fasting blood sugar was good until I entered the dreaded 32 to 36 week window, which is the hardest time, for reasons I explain later. This time it was a problem from the onset. Last time my main issue was with post-meal spikes.
This time they have hardly been a problem. Despite that, it is worse. For one, I'm now on medication, metformin, a diabetes drug, as I was not able to bring my fasting blood sugars into range. Now almost 31 weeks pregnant, I'm four weeks into my treatment and my numbers are great — much to my relief, as the next step is insulin. But I may still not avoid it yet. One of my favorite frozen pizza crusts is made with whole ancient grains.
So, it has more protein and fiber than a typical crust, but also happens to be gluten free. Again, the gluten or lack thereof has nothing to do with it, but rather the presence of protein and fiber. To really make a difference in fiber and protein content, we usually need to add some other whole grains, or additional ingredients. The idea of adding some veggies into your pizza crust is great! But, be careful. If you opt for a cauliflower crust, check to see what other flours are used as well.
Part of increasing the protein and fiber in a meal with pizza, also involves what we eat along with the pizza. And while you can certainly just eat the pizza itself, if you want something else, try to include an additional fiber source like veggies or a delicious salad, like some of these:.
Choosing the best pizza option at a restaurant comes down to the type of crust and the toppings you choose. And, you also want to try to find nutritional information ahead of time online if you can. Pizza and diabetes is already a bit tricky to navigate, and throwing in a restaurant experience can be even more complicated. So, I like to be as prepared as possible. And, make sure to check out over 30 more frozen dinner ideas that are perfect for people with diabetes.
Easy Chicken Salad with Grapes and Walnuts is a protein-packed recipe you must add to your lunch and dinner recipe rotation! Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. I had pizza a couple of weeks ago. My job bought lunch for everyone. I ate one slice without the crust and then drank two bottles of water and my numbers were great.
We had a lot of pizza left so I took two to go and ate them once again with the crust torn off, drank two bottles of water and worked out at the gym for 30 min. My numbers were great again. Hope this helps. We get the frozen ones from the store or make our own. I can have 2 slices and a salad and my numbers are fine, but my post meal numbers are easily diet controlled in the first place.
This was hard for me to try and give up! Also, small portions like others had said, with protein and walking after seem to work just fine! Now if only I can get apples to fall in that same category! For some reason, even with protein, I can't handle apples!! I eat 1 c of spinach and tomato salad first. Don't eat the crust even though it's thin, I just don't risk it! I think it works because of the protein.
Lots of water and a min walk after. My 2-hr post s are usually I ate 3 slices of thin crust papa murphys 45 grams of carbs and my numbers were good!
It was so delicious!! Atkins makes a microwavable pizza that has 23g of protein and 11g of net carbs.
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