As I am rounding the bend to the end of this pregnancy and my
experience with gestational diabetes (and hopefully diabetes all
together – unless I should ever become pregnant again), I find myself
wanting a cookie more than ever. Both literally and metaphorically.
I have worked very hard to maintain my blood glucose levels, and so far my readings have been well managed with diet and exercise. I can’t speak to the experience of insulin-controlled diabetes or how that changes things, but my experience with diet-controlled GD has produced an obsession with food and eating, although hopefully it’s improved my relationship to see food more as simply fuel. But I’ll be honest, I still have carb and sweets cravings and know it would be a slippery slope to falling back into the food-as-comfort attitude I’ve had most of my life.
Read the rest on Woman's Hospital's "Life Among Women" blog. (Called Mommy-Go-Round when first published.)
I have worked very hard to maintain my blood glucose levels, and so far my readings have been well managed with diet and exercise. I can’t speak to the experience of insulin-controlled diabetes or how that changes things, but my experience with diet-controlled GD has produced an obsession with food and eating, although hopefully it’s improved my relationship to see food more as simply fuel. But I’ll be honest, I still have carb and sweets cravings and know it would be a slippery slope to falling back into the food-as-comfort attitude I’ve had most of my life.
Read the rest on Woman's Hospital's "Life Among Women" blog. (Called Mommy-Go-Round when first published.)