Dealing with GD

My first week living with gestational diabetes went well - or so I think. I've been able to keep my numbers within the target range most of the time and have come up with some strategies (with a lot of help from forums, blogs and articles from the web) that help me keep my glucose levels in control.

Here are some helpful things I've found:

- It helps to have small, frequent meals throughout the day.

- Fastfood is bad. Really bad. I eat my fill when I eat throughout the day and I never go beyond the target range, but I eat at a fast food joint (even sparingly) and my glucose levels shoot up.

- Exercise helps and now that I'm in my 3rd trimester and that it's cold outside at night, we just do some walking in the hallways of our building.

- Eat a balanced diet! Vegetarian meals tend to give me high readings but meals with equal amounts of vegetables, meat and rice will give me a nice number in the middle of the target range.

- With my routine, it helps to have a light protein snack sometime between dinner and bedtime.

- No napping after meals!

- Keep a food diary, it will help you keep track of what food combinations trigger high glucose levels and which ones are okay.

I am due to go back to my endocrinologist next week. My glucose levels the first few days have not been good but they've steadily improved over the last few days. Hopefully, the doc will give me & swe-cha a break and not have to put me on insulin or any medications.