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My snacks tend to be the following:

Apple w/peanut butter
greek yogurt
cottage cheese and strawberries
graham crackers w/ peanut butter or cream cheese
fiber one brownies
popcorn
string cheese
carrots w/ranch dressing
milk
applesauce

Meals I try to balanced in what I'm eating my daily breakfast is a bagel thin with cream cheese, turkey breakfast sausage and apple sauce.

For my lunch and dinner it's usually a lean meat, vegetable and starch. My starches are things like macaroni & cheese, rice, baked potato. I just need to control the starch portions.

I think you should wait for your dietitian appointment.

It really help me understand what I should be snacking on and what to eat.

I'm a little different because my GD is coupled with morning sickness.

Mornings - I usually have some juice with some chicken nuggets (I eat two chick-a-fil nuggets) or one egg.

Lunch - Work Cafe - usually salad or a chicken sandwich or salmon.

Dinner - Juice, Chicken/Beef/Pork and Veggies. Sometimes I just have Tofu soup. I don't eat any carbs at dinner usually except for the juice. For weekends ... We usually go out and I try my best to eat half or less of the crabs I'm given. White crabs (white bread, white rice, white pasta) really spike me so I try my best to stay away from them.

Snacks - Fruit, popcorn, nuts (I found some 100 calorie pack nuts), cheese, and protein bars (mostly protein bars... but only half at a time, they actually have quite a bit of sugar but it fills you up)

Midnight snack (this is important for me for my fasting number) - Milk and gram crackers, juice and trinkets, 1/2 kashi protein cookie (my favorite is the oatmeal chocolate one).

@MamaG: For some reason plain water taste terrible to me. Before this pregnancy all I drank was filter water and for some reason I couldn't hold that down but I'm fine with juice. It is also on my do not eat list but I have tested myself over and over again after drinking it with a meal and it seems to be okay as long as it's my only carb. I also drink black tea but that gets old fast.

I'm trying to stay away from other teas (weird pregnancy side effects for most) and diet drinks (even though they say diet is okay I don't trust fake sugar with my baby... paranoid much? :)). So all I got left is juice. I drink a variety of cranberry juice (plain, mixed with other fruit juices... etc) mostly which seems to have less sugar and I majorly water down. I just need a little favoring over plain water. So basically half a glass of juice is 2 glasses of liquid for me.

@snowjewelz: Hehe I jumped the gun too. DH actually told me not to worry till my appointment with my dietitian. My GD appointment was actually a group class with other girls in my hospital that also just found out they had GD and almost all the girls were already on low carb diets.

@snowjewelz: It's not just low carb...you just have to balance the carbs with protein. You still need the glucose, or else your liver starts producing it for you. They'll tell you all that at your appointment.

Things like Payday bars are really satisfying!

Sorry for writing a novel! This has ruled my life for the last 2 months.

I just wanted to mention one more thing. I was diagnose at 9 weeks. Which is super early to detect this. For me, I will probably have to go on meds eventually because the problem is the placenta which only gets bigger the farther along you get. So it will only get harder and harder to control your numbers the bigger the baby gets.

Right now I can control with diet and exercise but my dietitians tell me pretty much every week good job but don't feel bad if you have to go on meds.

I wanted to say the same thing to you. Don't feel bad about going on meds... it's not your fault it's just how the placenta is attaching you. My doctor has told me very fit people get GD all the time and very unfit people pass the tests with flying colors it's really just how your body is reacting to the placenta of this baby.

@MamaG: Wow very interesting.

Breakfast : 30 grams
Snacks : 15-30 grams
Lunch/Dinner : 45 grams

I try to stay under those numbers by 5-10 grams. I also have a lot of snacks though... 5 a day.. one between breakfast and lunch, 2 between lunch and dinner and 2 after dinner.

I'm surprised you are able to do 60 grams max!

What's you 1-hour fasting number have to be under? Mine have to be under 130. My dietitians seem to like it at 110-120 though.

Edit : I'm horrible documenting my food also. I'm so glad I don't have to do that.

@MamaG: I'm usually eating in bed right before I sleep. It's terrible it's the only way to keep my fasting number under 90 for the morning. I swear I'm going to be put on meds in a few months.

Dinner is normally at 8pm for me. Then I have my first snack at 10 pm and they I have my bedtime snack at 11:30pm. I wake up at 8:30am to take my blood.

Edit : My targeted fasting is 90.

@Raindrop: Ahh! We had to really re-vamp habits in our house to get our dinner earlier. We used to eat dinner between 8-9, that just wasn't going to work My goal now is to always be done with dinner by 7:30. I've mentioned before I am on meds because of my fasting. I take 2.5mg of glyburide (pill) with my dinner every night. I've responded well. My OB actually raised my breakfast carbs as a result and said she would put me on a higher dose of medicine if needed since she knows that my body is responding.

I think she's slightly concerned about weight gain now. I'm currently 26 weeks and have essentially not gained any this pregnancy. I was overweight to start, but I should at least be increasing at this point.

@snowjewelz: I think @MamaG: also has had her's for quite a while through this pregnancy too.

GD will definitely slow down your gain.

I wouldn't feel bad about gaining though. Sometimes it can't be helped! My aunt gained 60 lbs with her kid and that turned out fine. She didn't have GD though.

My dietician's recommendations were 15-30 grams of carbs with breakfast and snacks, 40-60 grams with dinner, and I don't remember what she said about lunch. Which is probably bad, but honestly I'm pretty frustrated with the diet stuff because my after meal numbers are always fine. My problem is my fasting number, and no matter what diet changes I make it doesn't change, from what my doctor said it's nearly impossible to change your fasting number through diet.

I'm still trying to be better about not going carb-crazy and balancing it with protein. Here's what a day where I'm being good about my diet looks like:

Breakfast: Slice of toast with some peanut butter smeared on it. Eggs are great if you like them, but I don't.
Snack: Cheese and crackers
Lunch: Sandwich with lunch meat and cheese or peanut butter with some fruit.
Snack: Apple slices with peanut butter
Dinner: Chicken, baked potato, veggies, salad.
Snack: It's hard to even say because I've tried SO MANY different after-dinner snacks and timing changes to it in an attempt to change my fasting number.

My diet is boring and kind of repetitive because I'm super picky.

@MamaG: I know you're right - and yes, that's is frustration you're sensing! Don't want to threadjack but my DH hasn't been so great about understanding that I can't control the fasting number, he's always offering what he thinks are helpful suggestions that it's hard to not take as criticism. I'm on glyburide for it now.

I should add: I am doing my 2 hour glucose tolerance test probably on Friday for this pregnancy, so this thread is a good review for me

@MsMini: Good luck on your glucose test!

@MsMini: Thanks for sharing your ratio plan! I went out to eat last night and there were a lot of yummy carbs I wanted. Normally I'm pretty good at resisting but then I remembered your ratio plan and did a 2:1 protein:carb eating strategy and when I took my glucose it was prefect! (118)