Sometimes, we have to eat our vegetables, no matter how tempting a — most likely diabetic and definitely scurvy-inducing — lifetime of bonbons might be.
I know this first hand. Well, not the scurvy part. For both my pregnancies, I suffered from gestational diabetes, a wild condition where my body temporarily had high blood sugar as long as I was pregnant. I was lucky enough that I could manage it with dietary changes.
I knew that no matter what pregnancy cravings I had, my needs would always outweigh my desires. I’m not going to pretend I didn’t have the rare bite of ice cream, but I mostly stuck to my nutrition plan and my kids were both born healthier because of it.
