I can’t even make it through a good pregnancy without bursting into tears on a regular basis. Between constantly worrying about whether I’m feeling contractions or not, all the people who are driving over 20 miles to go to the store for me because nobody I know closer will do it, Brian having to cook and clean and take care of the house on top of working full time, and now dealing with how to handle this diet and insulin, there are days when I wonder why I wanted to do this in the first place. It is so hard sometimes to remember how badly I want these babies, so hard…
I saw the dietician and educator today. They at first were wanting to track down the doctor and get a prescription for insulin right away, but decided to give me a couple of days more closely tracking diet and sugar so he can see that a little better on Friday. But they seemed positive I’ll be on insulin by the weekend and were training me for it anyway.
So if you’re interested in what it takes to feed three, here’s my diet, for a whopping total of 2700 calories and 150g protein:
Breakfast (7:00 am)
- 1 starch
- 1/2 milk
- 2 meat
- 1 fat
Snack (9:30am)
- 1 starch
- 1/2 milk
- 2 meat
Lunch (12:30pm)
- 1 starch
- 1 milk
- 1 fruit
- 3 meat
- 1 fat
Snack (3:00pm)
- 2 carb
- 2 meat
Snack (5:00 pm)
- 2 carb
- 2 meat
Dinner (7:00pm)
- 3 carb
- 3 meat
- 1 fat
Snack (10:00pm)
- 2 carb
- 2 meat