Biscuits & Cake!

At 30 weeks.

I had my glucose test last week. It's where they take your blood sugar reading before you drink a glucose drink and then take your blood sugar reading again an hour later to test how well your body breaks down the sugar. Well, to my absolute suprise my sugar reading was 8.5! I was in shock! To tell you the truth, I felt quite sick after drinking the glucose drink - it's like drinking about 250mls of straight cordial! So this week I have to go and do the glucose tolerance test where I will need to fast from 10pm the night before and go into Pathology at the Mercy Hopital to take my blood sugar reading before I drink that horrible stuff again and take my reading 1 hour after and then another reading an hour after that!

Apart from being a senior lecturer at VUT my dad is a Diabetes consultant and boy was I really embarrased to tell him about my glucose test! But all is fine. My dad gave me a glucose home-test kit for me to monitor my glucose myself. And so far my readings have been normal - but thats because I have been watching the sugar intake I am eating at the moment... ok I admit, I have been eating probably 1 too many sweet biscuits and cake!! oops!! - I think I have let myself down in this department! I was so good when I was pregnant with Morri and plus I was a lot more active then - I was working and I was going to the gym at least 3-4 times a week. This time round I am not working, and I sometimes I manage to get to the gym once a week if at all! So this weekend I went to the gym twice and I will go again this Wednesday when Morri goes to his Gran & Grandads place and I will NOT be munching on biscuits and cake!! In a way I am grateful about the outcome of the test as it is a wake up call to myself that I need t0 watch what I eat - which is very disappointing to me because I have always been very mindful about maintaining a healthy diet! I guess living (still) at my folks place hasn't helped me be a bit more diligent with what I consume!