GD-What to eat?

[Bonster]

Hi Ladies! I should start with the fact that I passed my 3 hour glucose test, however not by much. So the doctor recommended that I limit my sugar and carbs. Obviously the sugar part I get but the carbs part is more difficult for me. I know to eat more whole grains but after that I am clueless. Like what should I eat for lunch? I usually have a pbj sandwich or a lean cuisine meal, granola bar and fruit. What should I eat as the main part of a lunch meal?

Can I eat egg salad? I think I read somewhere that fiber one bars were ok but I am not sure.

Also what about cereal for breakfast? I usually eat special K with strawberries.

I should also mention that I am allergic to milk so I drink soymilk and avoid all dairy.

Thanks ladies so much for your help and good luck to you all!

 

[capel]

Well, I don't know how many gram of carbs you will be able to tolerate, but the first thing is to get low GI ones. So no white bread, granary bread instead. In general less processed carbs. Then decide on an amount. Eat, test your blood 1h,2h and 3h later. If you levels are within the guideline that food is ok. I would start with around 15g and go from there.
Egg, meat, green leafs, vegetables are all ok. So your egg salad should be fine. I don't know about the granola. It all depends on portion size, the same with cereal. I don't eat cereal because I always have a spike at 1h and I go hypo at 3h. But it is very hard to tell you the amount you have to eat as each person is different.
I hope it helped a little...

 

[Emmea12uk]

I passed by one point too. The mw sent be home and told me to come back in 10 weeks for more testing but I went to my gp for advice as 10 weeks is too long. He recommended blood sugar level testing, which I think you should be doing. You can't control your intake without any guidance on how these things affect you.

Go and see your gp