Pregnancy

If you weigh that much and are not losing and your glucose tolerance test is high, then you do not follow the proper diet for you. Ninety percent, or whatever you really are doing, is not sufficient. Since this is serious, I think you should post everything you eat here and follow your routine fasting glucose and a 2-hour post prandial. I think the 100 gram test is irrelevant because your body weight and the 50 gram glucose test already determines that you are at high risk and need intervention with your diet and exercise.

Here is a Sample Phase One Diabetic Reversal Diet for newly diagnosed Gestational Diabetes:

This menu includes options, so do not attempt to consume all the food or dishes suggested; choose only one or two options at each meal. You can eat the same dish for more than one meal and even use as leftovers for a few days. Breakfast is only listed for those who are doing lots of exercise and hungry in the morning. If not hungry, eat two meals a day. You do NOT have to eat all the food listed.

Please note that carbohydrates (even beans) are not fed with breakfast because insulin resistance is highest in mornings.

The most important advice here is to STOP, do not make choices and decisions about what to eat and what not to eat. Let me make all these decisions for you.

Remember, you developed this condition based on the choices you made. In order to give this method a chance to see what it can do, you must do it exactly as prescribed, without modifications.

Just follow this plan until your blood sugars are relatively favorable. Then, once your condition is in the safe, non-diabetic range, we can advance the diet to the next phase and we can discuss.

Breakfast – (use one or both of below suggestions)

1. A green (salad) with lettuce, thin sliced red onion, tomatoes, and roasted red peppers with a creamy hemp seed herbal dressing made from hemp milk, seeds, and a fruit flavored vinegar. Or, use a roasted tomato basil dressing made from tomato paste, soaked sundried tomatoes, raw and roasted garlic, vinegar, roasted red pepper, chopped scallions, basal, cumin, and cinnamon.
2. A roasted eggplant casserole made with sliced zucchini, mushrooms, onions, tomato, garlic, and spices, such as cinnamon or cumin, sprinkled with lightly toasted and chopped pumpkin seeds.

Lunch – (use two of the following)

1. A vegetable-beans soup or stew served over or with a bowl of shredded lettuce and shredded raw spinach. The soup should be made with a low salt tomato/celery juice base and lots of leafy greens, leaks, zucchini, and onion.
2. Roasted tofu slices, or one ounce sliced turkey, chopped with avocado, dill, and roasted garlic wrapped in raw collard green leaves.
3. Zucchini-cauliflower casserole baked with chopped onion and mung bean or other sprouts and sprinkled with nutritional yeast.
4. Or, the roasted eggplant/mushroom dish can be eaten here instead of breakfast instead.
5. Spicy beans or lentils (one cup) served hot over a bed of finely shredded lettuce and cabbage.

Dinner – (include all three options below)

1. A steamed green vegetable dish made with steamed or water sautéed mushroom and onions. Steamed green vegetables (string beans, artichokes or asparagus), crushed raw walnuts, and lightly toasted almonds slivers.
2. Raw vegetables, such as raw broccoli, snow peas, cauliflower, kohlrabi, cucumber, radish, peppers, tomatoes, and celery served with a humus dip or salsa dip. A half ounce of sunflower seeds mixed with a half-ounce of your nut of choice or a sunflower-mushroom burger, served with lettuce, tomato, raw onion, and tomato sauce (without bread). One fruit such as kiwi or berries.
3. One fresh fruit for dessert or two kiwi or box of berries.

Although everybody is a little different as far as protein requirements go, for a pregnant or lactating woman, one could strive for around 50-70 grams of protein per day. This isn’t as difficult as it sounds because by just being pregnant, you end up being more hungry so you eat more throughout the day. As long as you are eating a balance of the foods I recommend, including beans, seeds, nuts, and other protein-dense foods along with everything else, you’ll meet your goals. The diet is essentially the same as long as you eat more. You should also take extra low dose iron as part of your multivitamin.

Stop worrying about folate and trying to eat to get enough. You cannot and will not get a folate deficiency on a Nutritarian diet, and you do not have to take in 600 mcg a day. Your needs are proportional to your calorie needs as your body also stores folate. Eat all natural foods contain folate, and I promise you, your blood levels of folate will be stellar without counting, measuring, or having to eat more than you feel comfortable with.

The reason my women’s prenatal has no folic acid and no folate is because it is impossible for a women eating healthfully to not get enough folate.