Six Pounds in Two Weeks!?

I weighed myself before I ate today. I'd lost six pounds in two weeks. Needless to say I was very concerned. So concerned that I went and got myself some fast food. I could have found something full of calories at home, but I'd also had a dentist appointment earlier and for some reason I always want fast food after I visit the dentist.

Around 4pm I had an appointment with my dietician. I brought up the six pound loss with her as we went to check my weight. Because I'd just eaten, my weight had gone back up four pounds. But she still sat down with me and helped me figure out my calories.

The day we looked at had be getting roughly about 1,500 calories. For being overweight from the beginning that was too little. What was a bit worse about that day's calories was my dinner for that day was normal. I'd had lobster tail, a little less than 3oz of steak, corn, and asparagus. So on normal GD diet days, I wouldn't be consuming that many calories with a meal.

She suggested I up my caloric intake by getting more nuts and oils (like canola or olive) in my diet. That would up the calories by a few hundred, putting me over 1,800 which is the least amount she wants me to get.

I asked several questions I'd come up with in the week I'd not seen her. One of them was about my breakfast sugars and if I could do anything to lower them. They've been between 125-135 each time. She said there's not really anything I can do. Exercising will help, but it's not going to do much overall since the pregnancy hormones are making it harder for my pancreas to produce enough insulin fast enough. And it seems that higher blood sugar readings is the trend with GD patients.

So if your after breakfast glucose levels are higher than the rest of the day, don't stress over it too much. But don't count out exercise. I've begun trying to get in 20 minutes of bike riding a day, at least. It's not much, and I could do more, but I get up so late and I end up taking a nap usually that I don't get much of a chance to do more than twice a day (10 minutes each which is about 2 miles for me going at a moderate pace). I'll do something once after breakfast and then again after 9:30pm when my mom and her husband have gone to bed. We have a stationary bike in the TV room but from 4pm to about 9pm the room is occupied by my mom's husband and her and I have no desire to sit in there with them watching boring TV.

The dietician said exercise can help my body's cells open up and be more ready to take in glucose. One of the reasons why our blood sugars are higher in the morning is because our cells are more resistant to taking in glucose. We might be awake but that doesn't mean our body is, too.