WIEIAD with Gestational Diabetes at 20 Weeks

Here’s a full breakdown of everything I ate and my sugars afterwards. For reference, I need my sugars to be under 120 after 2 hours after my first bite of food (some people do 1 hour, but this is what I have been told to do by my doctors).

Fasting: 85

When I woke up I had my usual coffee: 6 oz Stok, 2-2.5 oz full fat oatly oat milk, 10g vanilla creamer. I had this with 3 cracker sized pieces of cheddar cheese. I didn’t take my sugars after this, this is typically a very safe meal for me. Even in my last pregnancy up until the end I never had an issue with my coffees.

Breakfast: Blueberry Pancake Bowl

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup Kodiak Cakes Power Cakes mix
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup blended cottage cheese
• 2 tbsp milk of choice
• 1/4 tsp vanilla
• 1-2 –2 tsp maple syrup or honey (optional)
• pinch salt
• 30-40g blueberries
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon

Instructions

1. Blend cottage cheese until smooth.
2. Mix all ingredients in a small greased ramekin or bowl.
3. Microwave 90 seconds – 2 minutes until set in the center.
4. Let cool slightly (it firms up as it sits). Top with syrup if using.

Walked for 20 minutes after the meal.

Sugars: 93

Lunch: Arugula Salad + Small Handful Rice Cakes

Ingredients:

• Bowl full of arugula
• 2 tsp of olive oil
• Squeeze of fresh lemon
• Sautéed 1/3 cup of the greek chickpeas from Trader Joe’s
• 1/2 chicken breast diced and cooked
• 2 tbsp feta cheese

After the salad I had a small handful of rice cakes, maybe like 5-6. I had this meal with a diet cherry coke.

Sugars: 107

Snack: Yogurt Bowl

Ingredients:

• 1 serving full fat vanilla greek yogurt
• 35 grams blueberries
• 1 tbsp pumpkin seeds
• 1.5 tbsp peanut butter (I use the natural jif/skippy one)
• 10 g dark chocolate chips

After this I walked for 15 minutes.

Sugars: 100

Dinner: Breakfast for Dinner

Ingredients (this made 6 pieces, I had 2):

• 4 eggs
• 1/8 cup fairlife milk
• Splash vanilla
• 6 pieces of 647 bread

Instructions:

1. Mix your wet batter (eggs, milk, and vanilla).
2. Preheat your skillet and add a little butter
3. Dunk 1 piece at a time very briefly on each side, then add to skillet.
4. Cook 3-ish minutes on first side, then flip and cook on the other side.
5. Remove and do with remaining bread.

With my 2 pieces of french toast I had 2 scrambled eggs and 2 pieces of maple chicken sausage from Amylu. I mostly ate the eggs and sausage first. I also had 2 tsp maple syrup with my french toast.

We went on a 20 minute walk after dinner.

Sugars: 99