And I thought corn is a vegetable!!!

My new diet to push down my glucose level in my blood will consist of a quarter of a plate of carbo, preferably complex carbo like brown rice, wheat, oat..etc. Not all in the same meal though! Other than this, half of plate of vegetables (at least 2 different types/colours of veg) and the last quarter of meat (any). Oh.. and this is normal dinner plate not those bigger or gigantic one that is used by restaurants these days. Interestingly, I had salad with meat as dinner yesterday night and really no carbo since I have had my carbo fill for the day already and today i need to measure my glucose level (not to mention also my gynea appointment) hence need to be a good girl and make sure the readings are low.. BUT NO! It was still high! I have been puzzled for the whole day and feeling despair because if i can't control the glucose level via diet then i have to go on insulin injection (4 times a day every day!!!)... then after seeing the dietitian today.. I found out that corn is classified as starchy vegetable that sits on the same category as potatoes and rice! NO WONDER! I love corn.. and had a lot for dinner last night! So.. now i know what is wrong.

The gynea appointment today went well although my gynea is expecting perfect reading on all my glucose measurements.. not a single one out of scale. So he has given me another 2 weeks to prove that this can be done via diet or else.. insulin injection it is. Plus.. one of the sign of gestational diabetic is also that the baby will grow abnormal size. My baby managed to grow 0.5kg in 2 weeks!! and she is now classified as in the upper although normal range. So.. 2 more weeks of monitoring.. if she still grows so fast then the gynea will have to induce labour at least 2 weeks earlier.. on dear on dear.. this is serious!!!

So.. baby and mommy have to be on strict diet now. Exercise is actually the key.. i walked for 2 hours after lunch (quite heavy with right portion of carbo) and my glucose reading is at the lower normal scale at 5.2 (Normal scale: Before breakfast less than 5mmol/L, after meals should be between 5.6 to 6.8). YIPPEE!!! Dinner was normal too at 6.2. GOOD GOOD.. so.. there's still hope for normality.

OH.. gynea also said that stress can be a factor to push up glucose level. So... need to maintain my zen. However, when i told mom what she should cook for me ..etc, she always used the phrase saying "Those old days when she was pregnant there was no such thing" and have this conspiracy theory that the doctor made all these up so he can con more money out of us. Sigh.. this really stressed me out a lot! It took me nearly a week to persuade her to make brown rice rather than white rice for me. Now i need to eat more different types of veg but she said i don't eat her cooking and there is no problem with her cooking (when i said less oil, no fried food), instead she blamed on outside food that i had for breakfast and lunch to say they are loaded with sugar!

Sigh.. this is a tough journey...