Feeling guilty

A couple of suggestions that can really help: Drink water with your meal. If you already are, drink more. Take a light walk or do some light exercise after meals. Both of those can really help with readings. I was devastated too. It was a good day when I didn't cry. My gd baby is 2.5 and a wonderful, delightful toddler. What are your evening meals looking like? Sometimes what you eat with your food can help and maybe we can give suggestions. And some of us do need medication. It's important to remember that it is your placenta that does this. You can have an absolutely perfect bmi going into this and still get gd.

I’ve recently been diagnosed too and was really worried about how I was going to adapt, as admittedly, my diet has always been pretty poor. I found downloading the ChatGPT app really useful. I literally told it I had GD and what my target readings were, my food preferences/ dislikes and asked it to keep track of my daily carbs, sugars, protein etc. Now each time I eat I tell it what I’ve had and it’ll total up what I’ve had so far / how much I’ve got left for the day. It’ll also offer meal / snack suggestions within my range. Or if I’m not sure if I should eat a certain food I ask it and it’ll let me know if it’s GD friendly or not. I’ve only had 3 high readings since using it (and I test 4x daily) so I’ve found it’s been super useful - and when I have had high readings I then know where I went wrong and can avoid that certain food / sized portion again x

You’re being rough on yourself. It takes a couple of weeks to try foods & understand what your body can/can’t tolerate. Like others have said. Try less carbs make sure you have a good size protein & veg to start. If it’s still high, go for walk after eating 😊

If you got to Gestational diabetes UK website they have SO many great recipes and food tips for keeping blood sugars down. They also have a Facebook group which is so helpful and supportive

I had it and I felt the same best way is to figure out your safe foods and pair them with other things like I could have the odd chocolate freddo or kinder bueno I used to live off wholegrain pasta and tuna and even just things like cheese and olives can help bring your readings down and I looked for low carbs in products and usually I stayed within the green readings I had my GD baby 9 weeks ago as I was induced at 37 weeks was told he was going to be huge he was born at 5lb 6oz and now he’s a chunky little 10lb baby ☺️☺️ if you have any questions or anything feel free to reach out it’s not too bad once you get the hang of it and I still had my odd few treats just in moderation as I love my sweet treats