So far, so good. With the glyburide and carb-counting, my sugars are under control. I've found that the last week, I've had a really hard time remembering to actually check on time; I don't know if that's general pregnancy-brain, things getting a bit busier at work, buried resentment at having to keep pricking my poor fingers, or what, exactly. I've asked Kevin to help me remember to do the sticks; hopefully that'll help get the job done for the next up-to-four weeks.
I'm getting really kind of sick of the allowed snacks. Cheese and meat sound great, but in practice, I often don't feel like snacking on them. Too salty or something. If I'm at the house, I can usually do blueberries and cottage cheese, or an apple, or something else fruity, which is much more what I'm craving, but it's harder to do that when I'm out running around. Although maybe that just means I should buy more apples. But I don't like eating apples unless I cut them up into slices first. Yes, I'm weird, I know. Or possibly three years old. Anyway. It's getting tiresome, and I miss rice like crazy. Yesterday I broke down and made rice and curry because I just couldn't take it anymore, but I can't do that every day, which is what I really want to do. Sigh.
Weight gain/loss (would normally be gaining about a pound a week at this stage of pregnancy):
- Week 1: lost 2 pounds
- Week 2: lost 1 pound
- Week 3: gained 2 pounds
- Week 4: lost 3 pounds
But now I have to go teach, so I'll leave you to reach your own conclusions on whether the GD has been a good or a bad thing for me overall. It's certainly a nuisance.
Would dried fruit work? You could get dried apples, or fruit leathers, or those crunchy dried fruit things….
But I don’t know whether (a) that’s allowed, or (b) they would satisfy what you want in a snack.
I think they both would taste too sweet to me, and be much too high carb, sadly.