didn't pass the gestational diabetes screening - updated!!
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:07 pm
Hi Jeff,
last week I had a 1 hour glucose tolerance screening for gestational diabetes.
The labwork said I did NOT have to fast before it, and so I ate lunch before going in (between 12:30 - 1 pm) and had a chickpea and whole grain pasta soup.
I just got a call that my results were "borderline high" - 147 after the 1 hour from drinking the orange goo. So now they want me to go in for the 3 hour glucose test where you eat "an extra piece of bread with each meal" for 3 days prior, and then fast for 12 hours before being tested.
I don't know whether what I ate for lunch just before going in may have skewed my results, or not.
I guess I'd like to know what the best approach to not flunking the 3 hour test is. My biggest concern is getting slapped with the 'gestational diabetes' label and being pressured to eat a high protein, low carb diet. Would it be better to make sure not to have even whole wheat *flour* products and sweetened things (all fruit sorbet, etc.) in the week before the test?
I've been following Dr. McDougall's plan for about 6 weeks.
Background info:
I'm 5' 0" and weighed 131. when I first found out I was pregnant -- I had been following Dr. McDougall's plan and losing weight for several months, but when the nausea hit I fell off the plan and ate very poorly for the first 20 weeks or so. Got back on the plan when I was feeling better and my husband was diagnosed with high blood pressure. I'd gained about 17 pounds in those first ~22 weeks, but then dropped back down a little to about 142 over the first few weeks back on the plan, and have bounced around near there, in the 142-144 range the last few weeks. Even though I lost a little weight, I feel like I'm eating plenty, I'm not trying to lose weight or *diet* -- just eat healthy. I think a lot of it was losing some water retention weight from the prior junk food eating.
So at ~28 weeks I weighed 143 on the day I went in for testing. I'm caucasian and 39 years old.
Thanks,
Kim
last week I had a 1 hour glucose tolerance screening for gestational diabetes.
The labwork said I did NOT have to fast before it, and so I ate lunch before going in (between 12:30 - 1 pm) and had a chickpea and whole grain pasta soup.
I just got a call that my results were "borderline high" - 147 after the 1 hour from drinking the orange goo. So now they want me to go in for the 3 hour glucose test where you eat "an extra piece of bread with each meal" for 3 days prior, and then fast for 12 hours before being tested.
I don't know whether what I ate for lunch just before going in may have skewed my results, or not.
I guess I'd like to know what the best approach to not flunking the 3 hour test is. My biggest concern is getting slapped with the 'gestational diabetes' label and being pressured to eat a high protein, low carb diet. Would it be better to make sure not to have even whole wheat *flour* products and sweetened things (all fruit sorbet, etc.) in the week before the test?
I've been following Dr. McDougall's plan for about 6 weeks.
Background info:
I'm 5' 0" and weighed 131. when I first found out I was pregnant -- I had been following Dr. McDougall's plan and losing weight for several months, but when the nausea hit I fell off the plan and ate very poorly for the first 20 weeks or so. Got back on the plan when I was feeling better and my husband was diagnosed with high blood pressure. I'd gained about 17 pounds in those first ~22 weeks, but then dropped back down a little to about 142 over the first few weeks back on the plan, and have bounced around near there, in the 142-144 range the last few weeks. Even though I lost a little weight, I feel like I'm eating plenty, I'm not trying to lose weight or *diet* -- just eat healthy. I think a lot of it was losing some water retention weight from the prior junk food eating.
So at ~28 weeks I weighed 143 on the day I went in for testing. I'm caucasian and 39 years old.
Thanks,
Kim