What foods do you eat/ stay away from

Question

Just got diagnosed with gestational diabetes and I have a month left of pregnancy, I have no clue what I can and can’t eat and every time I google it the websites I look at contradict each other.

Answer

Stay away from processed food from a box.
Focus on Whole Foods, like Bbq chicken breast and Caesar salad….(Papa Murphy’s has amazing salads and they are huge and inexpensive and ready to eat) so when we order from there I will get a chicken Caesar salad and it will last two meals and if I’m desperate—I will scrape the toppings off my pizza and just not have the crust. 
Oven baked salmon and steamed veggies and rice. Veggies trays with hummus. Hard boiled eggs. 
One of the thing that triggers insulin is high carb foods. So there is a thing called “the glycemic index” and it tells you if a food is low, moderate or high. Diabetics use it. I do drink 1% milk but I also keep a case of unsweetened almond milk in the house from Costco. It has no carbs or added sugar. It won’t spike your blood sugar and has as much calcium as cow milk. Cheese, meat, eggs, pickles, mayonnaise, mustard all have no carbs and no sugar! So I make a lot of lettuce (romaine) wraps or go for low carb tortillas etc. I usually have eggs in the morning, or sausage or bacon, or eggs with avocado, or eggs with kimchi. Sometimes two eggs with a low carb English muffin. I have coffee with just half and half or I use a sweet and low or a stevia. Some people do sugar free creamers or just decide that their coffee is the only bit of sugar they’re gonna keep the same and make modifications elsewhere. 
You can still order from restaurants too! 
Jimmy Johns will do any sandwich in a lettuce wrap. McDonald’s burgers without a bun are like 3 g of carbs versus 39-66g with a bun. It blows my mind. So all that to say—you should cut “bad carbs” from processed food and get the carbs from healthy sources like avocados, all the veggies fruit and veggies you want…etc. I know it sucks but you get used to it. 
AFTER you have baby—being low carb helps lose the weight too. A lot of people think they will have the breast milk supply dip if they drop carbs but they actually see that happen if they’re not eating enough calories. When you go low carb, your body will eventually burn the glucose in your blood off and switch to body fat stores. 
Hope that helps and I didn’t overwhelm you!

What foods do you eat/ stay away from

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