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@HLK208: Interesting! Thanks for you advise.

My suggested carb numbers were slightly different numbers

Breakfast: 30 grams
Snack: 15 grams
Lunch: 45 grams
Snack: 15 grams
Dinner: 45 grams
Snack: 15 grams

After my slightly bad fasting numbers my nutritionist wanted me to up my last night snack to 30 though. The cookies are 23 grams. I must note these cookies are oatmeal chocolate but they aren't sweet at all... they are kind of dry with a little touch of sweetness.

@knittylady: *big hugs* Those numbers aren't too bad!! I think different doctors have different limit numbers.

@AngelicOne: Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try that out.

@MamaG: Good to know. Thanks. I did some googling before I posted this question on here and it does confirm this. Some people had crazy night time snack suggestions... like eating a bowl of ice cream... um no.

@tinyperson: LOL that's crazy!! No way can I do that.

@tinyperson: Haha thanks for clearing that up! I'm such a noob sometimes and really gullible. I probably shouldn't admit that on the internets. Oh well.

@Nskillet: Darn I'm allergic to PB and I have tried almond butter... don't really like the taste. But thanks for the suggestion.

I haven't really experimented with carb sensitivity yet but when I can eat more I'll probably do something like that. Mrs. Wagon mentioned that potatoes don't spike her... that would be awesome if it didn't spike me either.

I tried the cup of milk and 3 graham crackers last night. 87!

Just wanted to write here that I pretty much gave up on this fasting number. After 3 weeks of trying to figure out what to eat before bed... than forcing myself to eat it (which really took a toll on me because I don't like eating before bed). I decided to see what will happen if I just didn't eat my night time snack for a week. Basically just relax and not think about this 24/7.

I was prepared for bad numbers and maybe even being force to go on the insulin pill because that's what happens when you have bad fasting numbers.

To my surprise... my numbers got better!

I just talked to my OB today and she feels that I was probably just really stressed out before and now that I'm relaxed my numbers are better. She said try to keep it up if I can but she did mention that the insulin pill is really not that bad but does prefer me to try my very best with diet and exercise before resorting to that. Not sure if this will work for everyone and since I'm still very early on I will probably have to try harder later but for now I can relax till my numbers creep up again.

@MamaG: Bummers! When I told my OB I gave up on my number she started explaining to me about the pill. She did mention that she would require me to wake up in the middle of the night to make sure my number doesn't dip too low but she says that rarely happens, they just want to make sure, but she knows it's a big pain for most of her patients to do that.

I'm learning that excise is a big part in this overall. One of my friends was visiting me and he is kind of in a fitness mode right now and had me hiking and walking with him when he was visiting and my numbers were fabulous when he was here. I am just not that big into fitness unless someone pretty much makes me so now I think DH is going to force me to go on more walks. We will see how that goes.

@mrs. wagon: Hey thanks for inputting! So lucky you had no problems with fasting! It's pretty stressful. Hehe.

Unfortunately for me, I spike with potatoes!

But yes to walking! The week that my friend made me walk A LOT, all my numbers were sooo good. We ate out pretty much all the meals he was here and I had my lowest numbers that week. My nutritionist was very impress and said keep it up. (I wanted to laugh and say ha not happening but I didn't hehe.)