1:56 PM-Still Waiting

I actually really wouldn’t care if he came today earlier or later, except I have to go to the diabetes clinic at 3. It seems since my last OB appointment last week, I…gained…n.i.n.e pounds. Oh the shame. I knew I gained weight because the reflection in the mirror was looking a bit less like me, and a bit more like Miss Piggy.
I have been having trouble with hypoglycemia (syncope, sweats, seeing stars) and in order to preempt that, I stuff my face. I will eat a bit of cereal and still almost pass out, then add a few pieces of celery to no avail, then add a cookie or whatever I can quickly stuff in my face. This happens a few times a day. The doctor decided to send me to the diabetes clinic nurtitionist to learn how to eat with hypoglycemia. I started whining “I feel so bad, I used to be a personal trainer…” She said to me “I know you know how to eat right, but it is really hard when you do not feel well. You need to be a patient now, not a caregiver.” She was right. I don’t know at all how to transfer any eating common sense into “please don’t pass out now…”
Frankly, I know nothing about eating to prevent hypoglycemia. So I have to go, and the Sears guy is supposed to be here. Life!

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  2. I’ll keep praying for you.
    (What a drag -and dealing with Sears is enough to induce syncope in itself… Hope your man got there in time!)

  3. Disclaimer, disclaimer: not medical advice, or nutritionists’ advice or anything. If you are still wondering at all after your doctors’ visit yesterday — I thought proteins and fats were important to stabilizing blood sugar? So, knowing nothing else about your dietary needs, cereal sounds too low on proteins/fats (though milk with it might help), celery too light altogether, and a cookie probably low on protein and not ideally healthy, but maybe it’s the fat in the cookie that helps you feel more satisfied immediately? So… if you can have/tolerate whole grain and peanut butter, what about like a half non-hydrogenated/non-sweetened peanut butter sandwich on whole grain bread? Or what about one on white bread if you want to compromise, you’ll still get the protein and not-just-saturated-fats. We also get Ak-Mak crackers which are whole wheat with sesame seeds… I don’t know how they taste with PB, but maybe you could dip some kind of cracker (whole grain or otherwise) into a nut butter (cashew seems to be less expensive than almond if you are avoiding peanuts.) Or just a handful of nuts (I know some people advise pg/nursing women to avoid peanuts or maybe even nuts in general but some people seem to say “hey if it’s healthy food that helps makes you functional and your family is not prone to deathly allergies of any kind…”) And hard-boiled eggs are high quality protein with fat that are easy to keep in the fridge and down quickly, unless they disgust you while pregnant or all the time.
    I don’t know that I’m “hypoglycemic” but I have found that the carb-fat-protein balance is important to satisfying my hunger and seems to help my mood, so just some ideas. For example, I always get at least lowfat yogurt for my fruit smoothies so I will not have so much sugar, some protein and no fat at all if I have one for breakfast or an isolates snack.

  4. No you’re right, although those examples aren’t totally accurate as to how I gained 9 lbs. But yeah, cereal in the morning started my downfall. I actually didn’t think I was that diabetic yet that I couldn’t handle bran flakes in the morning. Now I eat 1 egg, 1 piece of toast with a bit of butter, and 1/2 glass of milk. Then 2 hours later I will have some bran flakes with yogurt, and so on.

  5. Isn’t it virtually impossible to gain 9 pounds of actual fat in a week though? I mean, not to dispute if you have evaluated that you overate or ate high-cal foods or whatever. Just thinking maybe it’s mostly water — of course I am not expert on whether a mother can or can’t control that. Even if it were water retention from salt that’d be a whole lot of water retention. I suppose you probably have a verdict from the doctor by now though.
    Actually, our scale is sometimes pretty wacky in its inconsistency in spite of weighing at same time of day/dressed the same/pre-breakfast, probably something to do with the bathroom floor tiles unbalancing it. We have tape on the floor to try to keep it in a regular place yet a slight variation in positioning made *ten pounds* of difference the other day. I was wondering what horrible thing might have happened to me as I had never seen that kind of discrepancy before and thought maybe I’d really lost 10 pounds in a day, but then I moved it a tad and weighed something a lot more reasonable.

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