I’m still working on my scarf for The Red Scarf Project, but I also started my socks last night too. I have found that if I have more than one project going on at the same time, it keeps me from getting bored. I’ve mostly been doing my scarf when I’m on the way to and from work (Jason drives). I’m about a foot or so into it and it’s turning out pretty well. I’ll have to take a pic of my progress so far later tonight.
So far the socks are easy, but I have a feeling I’m going to have a problem when I get to the heel. Hopefully I can find something online to help me out. If not, I’ll have to take it up to the yarn shop and see if she can help me.
After the scarf, I’m going to attempt to make a stocking with the leftover yarn. I have a fuzzy white yarn to use at the top. I am planning on making a stocking for everyone in the family for Christmas next year and if I want to get it done, I need to get started ASAP. I also need to keep working on Gracie’s sweater which is also in progress.
As far as the GD:
I got my insulin!! Yipee! It’s not so bad actually. I have this little pen thing filled with Levemir, which is a slow acting insulin. I only have to give myself a shot at night before bed at this point. I can’t tell if it’s helping with my numbers or not. My fasting number was low, my breakfast number was high, and my lunch number was low. We’ll give it a few days and see how it goes.
We had another ultrasound yesterday and she’s measuring right on, which is good because GD can cause you to have large babies. We don’t want that.
I’ve also lost 3 pounds. I guess that’s what happens when you are forced to stop eating junk.
Showing posts with label GD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GD. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Friday, January 05, 2007
GD!
Let me tell you about Gestational Diabetes. It’s not any fun – AT ALL.
Ok, so, I went in for my glucose test and failed it miserably. I got 216 and the target was 185. That’s bad enough that they didn’t even need to send me for the 3 hour test. I have GD. So I go to see the nurse and get a prescription for a little machine that sucks up my blood and tells me what level my sugar is at. It’s actually a pretty cool little device. I have a finger poker thing that has a little lancet in it. I hold it to my finger and press the button and get a drop of blood. I insert a test strip into the meter and touch the end of it to the drop of blood and it sucks it up like a straw. See, I told you it was cool.
I have to test my blood 4x a day. Once in the morning before I eat anything and after each meal. I also have to eat 3 meals and 3 snacks. Breakfast has to have 15g of carbs (equivalent to a slice of bread), must contain protein (eggs), no fruit or juice or milk. Lunch is 45g of carbs and at least 3 ounces of protein, same with dinner. Snacks are 15-30 (preferably 30) carbs. I’m not allowed to eat anything made with white flour and I can’t have any empty carbs. So nothing sugary or nothing without fiber.
It’s hard to not eat junk. I love candy and sugar and sweets. The junkiest thing I’ve had to eat in the past week was a tablespoon of strawberry preserves slathered on my whole wheat English muffin. I think it’s a shock to my system. I cried a lot the first couple of days because my numbers are still high even though I’m following the diet, because I wanted junk, because there is nothing good to eat that doesn’t have carbs, because I don’t really like meat all that much, because cooking takes longer now, etc. I’m kind of over that now, except for the cooking thing. I still hate that. We need to get a George Foreman grill or something like that. It is depressing to go into the grocery store and read labels and find that EVERYTHING has carbs in it. I bought steaks and wanted to marinade them and the marinades are chock full o’ carbs too. No wonder type 2 diabetes is on the rise, it’s very, very hard to follow a low carb diet.
So, I’ve been doing the GD thing for a week now and it’s obvious that I need to be put on some insulin at night to help with my fasting numbers. I go to see the perinatologist about it on Tuesday. I have a feeling that I will also have to go on it before meals too since my numbers are above target quite a bit. A lot of the reason my numbers are off is because GD is hormonal too. For instance, I eat the same thing every morning for breakfast because, well, there isn’t anything else to eat except eggs. So I have 2 scrambled eggs with a little ham and cheese mixed in and a slice of whole wheat toast. It’s 13g carbs. On New Years day when I tested and hour after eating, my sugar was at 102. This morning, I ate the same thing and my sugar was at 155, it was 118 yesterday. I can’t win!
Ok, so, I went in for my glucose test and failed it miserably. I got 216 and the target was 185. That’s bad enough that they didn’t even need to send me for the 3 hour test. I have GD. So I go to see the nurse and get a prescription for a little machine that sucks up my blood and tells me what level my sugar is at. It’s actually a pretty cool little device. I have a finger poker thing that has a little lancet in it. I hold it to my finger and press the button and get a drop of blood. I insert a test strip into the meter and touch the end of it to the drop of blood and it sucks it up like a straw. See, I told you it was cool.
I have to test my blood 4x a day. Once in the morning before I eat anything and after each meal. I also have to eat 3 meals and 3 snacks. Breakfast has to have 15g of carbs (equivalent to a slice of bread), must contain protein (eggs), no fruit or juice or milk. Lunch is 45g of carbs and at least 3 ounces of protein, same with dinner. Snacks are 15-30 (preferably 30) carbs. I’m not allowed to eat anything made with white flour and I can’t have any empty carbs. So nothing sugary or nothing without fiber.
It’s hard to not eat junk. I love candy and sugar and sweets. The junkiest thing I’ve had to eat in the past week was a tablespoon of strawberry preserves slathered on my whole wheat English muffin. I think it’s a shock to my system. I cried a lot the first couple of days because my numbers are still high even though I’m following the diet, because I wanted junk, because there is nothing good to eat that doesn’t have carbs, because I don’t really like meat all that much, because cooking takes longer now, etc. I’m kind of over that now, except for the cooking thing. I still hate that. We need to get a George Foreman grill or something like that. It is depressing to go into the grocery store and read labels and find that EVERYTHING has carbs in it. I bought steaks and wanted to marinade them and the marinades are chock full o’ carbs too. No wonder type 2 diabetes is on the rise, it’s very, very hard to follow a low carb diet.
So, I’ve been doing the GD thing for a week now and it’s obvious that I need to be put on some insulin at night to help with my fasting numbers. I go to see the perinatologist about it on Tuesday. I have a feeling that I will also have to go on it before meals too since my numbers are above target quite a bit. A lot of the reason my numbers are off is because GD is hormonal too. For instance, I eat the same thing every morning for breakfast because, well, there isn’t anything else to eat except eggs. So I have 2 scrambled eggs with a little ham and cheese mixed in and a slice of whole wheat toast. It’s 13g carbs. On New Years day when I tested and hour after eating, my sugar was at 102. This morning, I ate the same thing and my sugar was at 155, it was 118 yesterday. I can’t win!
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