Anyone already not eat carbs but still get GD?

Question

I know there is no set diet or numbers for all,  but generally speaking with GD I know they want you at 150 or less carbs a day. Again, generally speaking. 
I already eat only 60-80 a day. My entire day, and for five years now. This is my norm.  Rarely even on my ‘naughty’ days am I even over 120 total. 
Yet I epically failed the 1hr test; blood tested at 196 and had not a carb that morning.  So have to do the 3 hr now and it makes me nervous.  I understand it’s just how gestational and the body works but it’s just crazy to think I might still have GD when I hardly eat carbs as it is so isn’t a matter of fixing diet.  Was anyone in the same boat?

Answer

It has literally nothing to do with your carb intake on a regular basis, but how the hormonal changes of pregnancy are impacting your pancreatic function. 
You could eat nothing but carbs, and be fine provided your pancreas is not overly impacted by the hormonal changes happening. 
The biofeedback system that regulates your pancreas and insulin production can be incredibly stressed by pregnancy, which is why women with ‘normal’ BMIs/weight gain and a history of low/no carb diets can have GD. 
It’s not necessarily a diet based thing— it’s a hormone based thing.

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Carbs really has very little to do with it.  If you have a history of diabetes in your family it’s almost guaranteed you will have it.  Both my parents have diabetes and I ended up with Gd.  Everyone’s body works differently, but if your body cannot process sugar when your pregnant diet won’t really help.  It will just help keep in controlled.  It’s not terrible I had to take a pill and eat a pretty restricted diet.  I only gained 19lbs because of it!  And my daughter weighed 10lbs .03 oz at birth so it was mostly her!!

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I hardly ate carbs too and ate very healthy and still failed the one hour.
What I find interesting is that through following the GD diet I ate more carbs than I ever have. I was able to control GD through diet. Pairing every carb with a protein helps. 
I’m 6 weeks post partum and still follow this diet just out of habit. I am 11 pounds less than I was before I got pregnant.

Answer

Doesn't matter what you ate before how much you workout the size you are. If you're going to get it you will.

Anyone already not eat carbs but still get GD?

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