[Katie_Colic]

WOW, I guess I got very lucky - the diabetes center my ob/gyn referred me to put me on a diet that was under 200g a day.

LOL, 200g a day is pretty high carb if the object of the diet is to keep blood sugar down. And low fat, too. You must have been MISERABLE. I know carbs make me hungrier than if I hadn't eaten at all.

I pulled out my food plan and saw that an ideal dinner for controlling blood sugar was 4 oz. of protein (fat trimmed from it of course), a LARGE baked potato with freaking margarine, a vegetable with margarine and skim milk. Then for my after dinner snack I was supposed to have a banana, crackers and more skim milk.

Does anything leap out at you? Like maybe the fact that I was being told to eat trans fats (margarine), foods that make your blood sugar skyrocket (potato and banana) and refined carbs (the crackers)? And this was all in a few hours!

[agrace]

See post 371 - it was actually closer to 150, still pretty high but I bet they considered it low carb since the food pyramid recommends around 300. That's how they presented it anyway. And yes, I was miserable. It was a giant balancing act of eating as close to the carb allowance as possible and dreading each next sugar check. Although my sugar stayed ok, thankfully, it probably had some serious spikes between checks.