So...my husband came home from work with a grocery bag full of sweets. I mean donuts, and candy...i…

So...my husband came home from work with a grocery bag full of sweets. I mean donuts, and candy...i never really ate sweet stuff before the pregnancy. I never actually craved it. But when i got pregnant for the first 3 and a half months i was taking in over 300mg of sugar a day. I know some people are thinking, o thats not to bad. If you get gentessinal diabeties it wont affect the baby. Well thats not the concern. My husband only brought the bag home bc it was given to him by a fellow woman coworker that knows im pregnant. She has to cut down on her sweet stuff bc she has 20 cavities in her teeth...also not my concern.

This is however;

My dad has diabeties, and my moms a prediabetic. So the baby already has a high chance of being born with the same issues even though i never had it. My sister knowing this concern at 3 and a half months of my pregnancy counted my sugar intake and imeddiately restricted my sugar intake well aware that it could/would affect the baby later. Im restricted to 10-20mg of sugar a day and at most im not allowed to exceed more than 50mg of sugar in a day. Which counting carbs as sugar doesnt count bc i need the carbs. However what i do have to count is raw sugar...which is again candy. I counted all the sugar in each piece of candy in the bag. Over half of them i exceed my sugar intake limit with one serving.

Part of me wants to throw it out bc me and the baby dont need it. But part of me doesnt bc i hate wasting things. So im tempted when i wake up to take all the candy and cut it up into smaller controlled pieces and putting them in containers. Restricting myself to maybe one or two of the small pieces a day.

I know its tge best idea and i can do it. But what im wondering is if anyone else is having to do the same thing?