It’s been a while, I apologize. My goal was to post every week — tips & tricks, recipes, and journal my struggles and triumphs. Well I’ve struggled through the holidays and didn’t have much positive healthy eating to report. Now I’m back on the bandwagon and ready to get this weight off!

This post, that should have come weeks ago was going to be a sample meal plan for someone with gestational diabetes or even regular diabetes. A representation of what I used to eat on a daily basis. So without further ado, here we go:

Sample Meal Plan

Breakfast (first thing upon waking up)

• 1 can of fruit cocktail (mix) in water
• 1 cup of cottage cheese
• 1 handful of nuts (usually walnut)
• 1 piece of high fiber, low carb bread buttered
• water

Mid-morning Snack

• veggies with hummus dip
• water

Lunch

• veggie sandwich made on Cobb’s Bread rolled grain bun with every vegetable in the fridge (red peppers, olives, onions, spinach, alfalpha sprouts, pickles, banana peppers, mushrooms, cucumbers, etc..) cheese and mayo
• veggies with hummus dip
• water

Mid-afternoon Snack

• veggies with yogurt dip
• water

Dinner

• lentil soup
• 1 piece of high fiber, low carb bread buttered
• salad (spinach with black beans, shredded cheese, and ranch dressing)
• water

Bedtime Snack

• 1 1/2 cups of fresh strawberries sliced
• plain yogurt
• homemade granola
• water

That was a typical day. Plenty of food, lot’s of water, no sugar. What I found the most helpful was to keep the veggies and healthy/high protein dips on hand. If I couldn’t figure out what to eat, I would stand in my kitchen munching on carrots/celery/etc and try and figure out what I could eat. It’s definitely not as simple as grabbing the first thing you can reach and I have found this to be one of biggest weaknesses. I’m starved, don’t know what to eat and don’t have the energy to figure it out. Plan ahead and have those “emergency” foods standing by!

Next week I’ll try and post some recipes or more sample meal ideas! Remember, I’m a vegetarian and this was infinitely harder than what someone who has a larger variety of protein to choose from would experience. Any of those meals above could have been replaced with a meat dish to get your protein/every meal quota in.

If you have any great recipes or meal/snack ideas you wanna share, please do!  Also if you’re following along and feel like sharing your thoughts/questions/highs & lows, please leave a comment! I’d love to hear from you!