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My Blood Sugar Levels Showed Me Good From Bad Sourdough Bread

And how to tell if your sourdough bread is good (pics to help!)

Andrea
Thought Thinkers
5 min readDec 14, 2024

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I have gestational diabetes (GD).

This means I have to prick my finger four times every day to measure my blood sugar level: as soon as I wake up and an hour after every meal (I know, I know, it's not fun, but I will do whatever I have to to have a healthy baby).

To avoid having to prick my finger in the morning, I started eating the same breakfast. It consists of eggs with sourdough toast and leftover fruit scraps from my daughter’s lunchbox.

I’m in my 24th week of pregnancy (there are generally 40) and started to test 15 weeks ago (this is considered way early, but I did it because I also had gestational diabetes with my first child). This means I now know my eggs and my sourdough too well. While I can also write an entire article on eggs, this is about sourdough bread.

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash

Why sourdough bread for breakfast?

It has a low glycemic index compared to other breads (this means that it does not spike my sugar as much as other…

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Andrea
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Written by Andrea

A multicultural mom, wife, daughter, immigration attorney, lover of mother nature, trying to make a difference one word at a time.

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