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Food monster

Posted 04/19/2013
Has anyone snacked on everything in sight, prior to sitting down and eating a meal? I just ate peanuts, cereal, and chips right before I sat down and ate my breakfast. Ugh! I don't do this often but when I do, there is no holding back. I am so embarrassed

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Posted 04/19/2013
All the time!! After 2 hrs I'm always starving. It's the growing baby, don't feel bad at all.
Posted 04/19/2013

My appetite's been really weird.. I wake up starving, feeling like I could eat everything in the kitchen! Then I'll have a banana and maybe a english muffin or bowl of cereal or something small like that, and be stuffed. Then 2-3 hours after that I'm ravenous again, and eat a little of something and I'm stuffed.. this goes on until about mid afternoon.. then I'm just not hungry at all anymore.. and extremely bloated..

Posted 04/19/2013

nope, not since I was diagnosed with GD.  It's not allowed!  But I have learned a lot of tricks to keeping hunger away:

- eat protein and fiber at each meal & snack
- eat every 3 hrs (with GD, you eat breakfast as soon as you wake up, then a mid-morning snack 2-3 hrs later, then lunch 2-3 hrs after your snack, then an afternoon snack 2-3 hrs later, then dinner 2-3 hrs after your snack, then a bedtime snack 2-3 hrs after dinner.  It's a lot of eating!! You end up eating smaller meals)  Sometimes I'm so full, I go 4 hrs between a meal & snack, but any more than that is bad for your blood sugar.
- drink lots of water - 1/2 your body weight in oz.  So if you weigh 240, drink 120oz of water a day.
- avoid eating carbs without protein (ie, if you eat chips, eat some cheese with it)
- stuff like juice, fruit, milk, convert to sugar quickly, so while they're satisfying at first, you'll be hungry again soon afterward (unless you have it with protein)

And sometimes, baby is going through a growth spurt and you're just hungry all the time - eat!!


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