Hawaii Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
***Lisa with the 2 bebbehs on board***
Awesomeness!
I know you're feeling uncomfortable these days, but how freakin' cool is this photo? You rock. And soon enough your sweet boys will be here and you'll have these pics to look back upon with some sort of fondness. I promise. Hang in there mama! The next 8 weeks or so will just fly by!
BTW, how are you doing with the GD? How often do you have to test your blood sugar? What are you target numbers?
Re: ***Lisa with the 2 bebbehs on board***
LOL I have to admit that it does look cool in photos...and kind of scary.
Honestly, I have NO idea how I'm doing with the GD. I still haven't met with the doctor I need to see who will be monitoring me (he was out of town until a couple days ago), so I'm just kind of doing this blindly and avoiding refined carbs and pure sugar, etc. I'm getting a little anxious to meet with him...
Hey, what did you eat for snacks? That's where I'm having the hardest time - I need something quick and easy to eat. For now I've just been eating this low-GI yogurt (well...it SAYS it's low-GI on the packet, and the carbs are about 1/4 of what's in other yogurt) twice a day.
Your bump is gorgeous! And soon enough you'll miss it...I promise. Not the aches and pains that go with it, but the actually bump and the feelings of the babies kicking inside. When I wear Libby and she moves in a certain way it feels sort of like it did when she was in utero...try to enjoy these final weeks and embrace the miracle that is your body!
My regimine had me eating 30 g/carbs for breakfast and 3 snacks a day and then 45 g/carbs for lunch and dinner.
Snacks for me were:
7 tortilla chips with 1 oz. melted shredded cheese
1 c. plain yogurt with 1/4 c. flax seed granola
1 c. cottage cheese and 2 slices of double fiber toast w/butter or 1 slice double fiber toast w/1 tbpn. no-sugar added jam
Scrambled eggs (plain or with cheese, mushrooms, spinach, etc.) in two small, whole wheat low carb tortillas.
20 mini pretzels and 2 cheese sticks (2 oz.)
1/4 almonds and 2 oz. cheese
1 small apple (4 oz. size...like a tennis ball) with 2 tbpn. peanut butter
2 mini ice cream cones or ice cream sandwiches (the 100 calorie type)
1/2 c. rice crispies with 1 c. 1% milk
20 mini graham crackers (I get Annie's Bunnies) with 1 c. 1% milk
8 Nilla Wafers with 1 c. 1% milk
1 small jello cup (not the sugar free kind...I cannot do artificial sweetners)
1/2 pear and 2 oz. cheese
8 whole grain crackers with 2 oz cheese
1/4 c. almonds and 1 small apple or 1/2 pear
Basically higher fiber carbs or complex carbs with a little fat and protein at each meal, including snacks, is the way to go!
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AWESOME, thank you!!!
Another question - do you have any websites or resources that have good low-GI recipes? I've found a few, but none that really have a ton of recipes on them. (I'm also borrowing some cookbooks from the library where I work, but am waiting on them to be delivered from another campus.)
I used http://www.nutritiondata.com/topics/glycemic-index to track nutrition data. They do have a recipe section: http://www.nutritiondata.com/topics/recipes/
As for recipes...I don't really cook via recipe, but I just found things that I like and combined them together.
Some go-to's:
Quinoa pasta with alfredo sauce and shrimp or chicken with broccoli
I had to stay away from white potatoes and rice...they jacked up my numbers.
Turkey meatballs with sweet potato oven fries and a spinach salad with bleu cheese dressing.
Brown rice with beef and asparagus
Basically I'd choose a protein, veggie and carby side and combine. I also shopped for things I knew would stay within my carb counts (like low carb tortillas, double fiber bread, quinoa pasta, brown rice pasta, etc.)
You could easily Google low-carb and low-glycemic as well as diabetic recipes. I don't eat artificial sweetners so many of those recipes I don't do. I'd rather eat real sugar, just less of it. Or I have recently discovered Agave Syrup...it doesn't jack up your blood sugar. I do like it in my tea.
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