Part One: The simple formula for eating carbohydrates
Unlike this pregnancy, I really don't remember how I planned out what to eat with my fourth baby, which is the first pregnancy I was officially diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Leaning on a basic understanding of nutrition and avoiding junk food was my main strategy, and I definitely didn't have the help of diabetic specialists, including nursing nor nutritionists. (Maybe they were offered, but I was too arrogant or busy or whatever to go hunt them down.) And my numbers sometimes soared high, and I couldn't figure out exactly why, but overall I did increase my simple proteins, veggies, etc., cut down the crap, and that baby weighed in less than the one before him (9 lbs versus 10 lbs 9 oz). So I thought I had it down. I'd seen results, so how much more was there to learn? The fact that my old doctor who I moved back to was in a facility with these other resources, and I was told, not suggested, to go to them, almost irritated me at first. But being 36...
