071: Lily Nichols – Gestational Diabetes

Lily Nichols

 Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition. Her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and critical of outdated dietary guidelines. 

She is co-founder of the Women’s Health Nutrition Academy and the author of two books, Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes. Lily’s bestselling books have helped tens of thousands of mamas (and babies!), are used in university-level maternal nutrition and midwifery courses, and have even influenced prenatal nutrition policy internationally. She writes at https://lilynicholsrdn.com

Lily’s Books

Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition – Lily Nichols

https://amzn.to/3nciDlO

Real Food for Gestational Diabetes: An Effective Alternative to the Conventional Nutrition Approach – Lily Nichols

https://amzn.to/3K0nSi4

Lily’s Top Tips

1. Make your breakfast – breaking your fast something that isn’t going to spike your blood sugar
2. No naked carbs
3. Get to bed earlier

Resources Mentioned

Sally Fallon

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects – Weston A Price

https://amzn.to/2HYuq5G

Weston A. Price Foundation 

https://www.westonaprice.org/

California Diabetes and Pregnancy Program

https://www.cdph.ca.gov

Lily’s Blogs

Why I Drank the Glucola

https://lilynicholsrdn.com/why-i-drank-the-glucola/

I Failed The Glucola

https://lilynicholsrdn.com/i-failed-the-glucola/

Lily’s Sourdough Bread

https://lilynicholsrdn.com/sourdough/

CGM Experiment: What I learned as a non diabetic from wearing a constant glucose monitor 

https://lilynicholsrdn.com/cgm-experiment-non-diabetic-continuous-glucose-monitor/

Quotes by Lily Nichols

“I was observing how poorly the guidelines were working for my clients so I say did they fail diet therapy or did diet therapy fail them?”

“I talk about gestational diabetes being like the warning light coming on in your car because it is a sign that your body has trouble adapting to an increase in insulin resistance.“

“It is not fate or destiny that you are going to develop Type 2 Diabetes”

“It’s not just immediately at birth or in those first few days that can affect baby’s ability to manage blood sugar, the rest of their life”

 “Babies are meant to be in ketosis when they are born“

Connect with Lily Nichols on social media

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LilyNicholsRDN

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PilatesNutritionist/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilynicholsrdn/

Website Details

https://lilynicholsrdn.com