Limiting "carbs" for Gestational Diabetes

It takes discipline to take in-charge of your gestational diabetes, and you can easily do it. All you need to do is:
1. Plan, plan plan - this is the key, plan all your meals and snacks. Remember that you dont want to over feed your baby, so stick to the diet always.
2. Unless your obgyn tells you not to excercise, you can do some light workouts. Brisk walk is good. You could also clean the home, vaccum, wash the dishes, cook and clean the kitchen, clean the bathroom. There are ways to keep the baby in you happy and also make your home clean.

You could plan a day with the following:
Breakfast - 30 grams of carb from category2, anything/any amount from category1
Snack - 30 grams of carb from category2,  anything/any amount from category1
Lunch - 45 grams of carb from category2,  anything/any amount from category1
Snack - 30 grams of carb from category2,  anything/any amount from category1
Snack  - 30 grams of carb from category2,  anything/any amount from category1
Dinner - 45 grams of carb from category2,  anything/any amount from category1

Category1: You can induldge on them. Happy and Free food.

turkey

pork

shrimp
tofu

fish

goat

chicken

all kinds of nuts but limit peanuts.

mustard greens (tori ko saag)

gai choy ( rayo ko saag)

gai lan (kalo tori ko saag)

pumpking vines (pharsi ko munta )

chayote vines (iskus ko munta )

eggplant/brijal ( bhanta)

ladysfinger (bhindi) 

fenugreek leaves (methi ko saag)

spinich (palungo)

peppercress (chamsur)

watercress (simrayo)

tomatoes/onion/ginger/garlic/cilantro/parsley

radish

mushroom

zhucinni

all variety of pepper (belpepper/chillies)

celery

asparagus

brocolli

cauliflower

cabbage

long beans (bodi)

green beans
bamboo shoot (tama)

cucumber

avocado

olive
all kinds of nuts

artichokes

and all the veggies you get. 

Avoid veggies that are high in carb like  plantain (kera ko tarkari), corn, sweet potatoes, any kind of poatatoes, peas, carrots.

All kinds of cheese (avoid cheese that are soft and viened as it may contain listeria, not at all a good thing for the baby like feta cheese, blue cheese)
Indulge peanuts in less quantity as they are higher in carb compared to other nuts.

Category2: Measure and eat, make sure to read labels

white rice

brown rice

noodles

bread

roti

poori

paratha

milk

yogurt
fruits

any Daal - you have been thiking it is protien but it has a lot of carb too.

NO NO NO, you can see how much you should avoid this by looking at the number of no's

fries

fried chicken - you can go for baked chicken and eat a lot of them

cookies/doughnut/muffins/bagel/

cakes pies/icreacreams

soda, energy drinks, juices, smoothies, milk shakes

pizza 

jam/jelly/honey
Rice bread (sel roti)
desserts (all kinds)

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