Mon, Oct-03-11, 21:02
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Posts: 72
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Plan: high fat
Stats: 205/205/150
BF:
Progress: 0%
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Hi ladies,
Hope you all had a nice weekend.
I'm still struggling eating too much bad food, although I've increased my fruit and vegetable intake in the last week, which I guess is a step forward. Most of the time the thought of meat and eggs makes me feel queasy so it's hard to commit to a complete diet overhaul at the moment. Some days I am definitely not getting enough protein, which is a concern.
And I know this will probably sound weird to you guys, but wearing an insulin pump I actually have a harder time controlling my blood sugar with a high protein and fat meal than with a small mostly carbohydrate meal, as long as carbs are no more than about 50g. With protein-based meals I get a blood glucose spike about 6-8 hours after eating. On the other hand, small carby meals are neither healthy for me, nor large enough to be satisfying.
Also had my vit D levels checked recently and got the results - 29, too low, especially before winter! Need to do better about those pills.
Hopefully this upcoming week, I will finally get news that the baby inside me is there and doing ok. Have a heartbeat check scheduled with the OB on Friday, and an appt with the perinatologist at the hospital on Monday (which in the past has always involved an U/S). It's been tense, because I had my first U/S at just 5-ish weeks last pregnancy and so had a lot more reassurance by this time.
Jill, if you are concerned about the bp, are all your readings in the doctor's office or are you checking at home too? Could be some white coat hypertension. My DH has high bp, but it's substantially higher at the doctor's. A home monitor isn't too costly. Also, at some point I read about the proper arm position and height for getting accurate bps and I've noticed the nurses never look at this. For me I've noticed taking slow deep breaths for 30 seconds before they take my bp seems to yield better results. I'm thankful I only had one high bp reading during my last pregnancy and it was at my endo's not at my ob's and he was willing to write it off as a fluke. I have enough pregnancy "issues" that I'm happy to avoid another one.
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