I am tolerant, apparently

So I’m a little chubby, if you know me.  My obstetrician has been advising me strongly for most of my visits to not gain as much weight as they say (I haven’t), and to stop eating sugar.  I try to assure her I’m not, and she keeps telling me to just keep eating lean meats, fish, fruits, vegetables.  I do.  Last visit, I had this glucose tolerance test that mostly measures if I am diabetic or not — pregnancy sometimes brings out gestational diabetes in borderline diabetic women.   My doctor was a little concerned about it I think, she talked about it a lot and what tests she would have me do if I measured high on the glucose tolerance test.   She said if I didn’t hear from them I was fine.

So I didn’t hear from them, so I must have been fine.  But I had my subsequent appointment this past week, and she said that my glucose tolerance test came back VERY LOW.  Low, low, low.  She didn’t lecture me on my weight, and didn’t even tell me what to eat.  I had gained a little more than normal since we were all on vacation, and she said not to worry about it I’m eating just fine.

It’s like I passed a test or something!  I was so excited when I came home I told the Mr. and he said “So we can go out for a hot fudge sundae tonight?”   People make fun of me, but I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that I avoid regular items with High Fructose Corn Syrup in them — for example, have you looked at most of the mainstream wheat breads?  They all have HFCS in them.  And regular peanut butter? And almost all of the the kellogg’s cereals?  It’s hard to avoid HFCS, but it’s totally worth it, to me.

So, we’re off, to have a hot fudge sundae tonight.

Posted by on June 15th, 2008 under Uncategorized

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