Mine didn't know what hot and sour soup was. She gave me shit for eating low carb ice cream, then went "Well, next time, have a quarter cup of nuts on it instead".
The standards were lower than regular blood sugar numbers and taken an hour after eating instead of two. It was easier to just falsify my stupid food diary than deal with Quarter Cup of Nuts.
yeeeeeah...to be honest it really depends on the facility and the individual doctor. ive had type one since birth and just now, at 34, finally found an endocrinologist (diabetes and other hormonal disease specialist) that listens tro me rather than insisting i don't follow doctor's orders
gestational diabetes docs tend to have a super bad reputation among diabetics, though, probably because they just always insist on going by the book and can't seem to figure out that no one is an actual textbook case, everyone differs
I figured out after the second visit that I was on my own because any questions I had were gonna be dismissed or used against me. So I just nodded and smiled for three months while doing everything myself.
what the actual hell...the noodles and peas are both starches? like, what is the point of having two servings of basically nothing but carbs and no vegetables that actually count as a vegetable?
gah, im so sorry you went through that. some of the "nutritionists" ive seen have been exactly this way, and i wonder how they got certified. i tend not to meet with them anymore because it's so useless
I feel like they're like the "lactation consultants" that work out of hospitals - their specialty is something else and they took an extra qual they don't care about to make extra money because their hospital needed one on hand.
So they come in, hand you a few print outs they found online, scold you over your food diary (because that's how you know they read it and Did Their Job), then fuck off.
1/2 a grilled skinless, boneless chicken breast
1/2 cup of buttered noodles
1/4 cup of peas