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Lemma Brown, MS, RDN, Harrisonburg, VA (2025)

01/17/2024

🌸 Exciting News for New Moms and Moms-to-Be in Harrisonburg!

🤱✨Join Balanced Postpartum, a nurturing group hosted by Lemma Brown, MS RDN, and Sarah Selznick, MS OTR/L.

🗓️📍 Tuesdays in February, 10-11am at The Harrisonburg Dance Cooperative.

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09/06/2023

Food Pairing and T1D Management. . . . what is it? 🤷🏽‍♀️

You have probably seen myself and others in the T1D space talk about the method of Food Pairing to help with blood sugar management in Type 1 Diabetes. 🧐

But, you might be wondering what exactly it is and if it might be helpful for you to try as a tool to help improve your own management? 🤔

Food pairing is a method that encourages putting foods together that contain carbs, fiber, protein, and/or fat to try to help balance blood sugars. 📉

Some examples of this are:

🍇 Grapes + cheese 🧀

🍐Pear + peanut butter 🥜

🍿Popcorn + almonds or other nuts 🌰

All of these options contain carbs+fiber+protein+fat to help balance blood sugar! 📉

Rather than encouraging restriction or avoiding certain foods (ie carbs) to help manage blood sugars, food pairing encourages including a wider variety of foods to help manage blood sugars. 🤩

This method can be extremely helpful in pregnancy by including lots of foods to help support a healthy pregnancy and encourage balanced blood sugar! 🤰🏽

With patience, practice, and consistency food pairing could be a helpful tool to consider adding to your T1D management toolbox especially if you have reached the end of your rope with low carb eating. It’s ok, I have been there too! 🙋🏻‍♀️

There are several ways to manage Type 1 Diabetes and restrictive eating or long-term dieting DOES NOT have to be one of them! ❌

I teach this method (& others) in my Mama-to-Be with T1D group program launching on October 18th!

If you want to learn more about ways to eat during pregnancy with T1D to best balance your blood sugar and support a healthy baby, then complete my Diabetes Coaching application - link in bio! 🎉

09/05/2023

When I started my pregnancy journey with T1D, I had NO IDEA what I needed!

I started with researching normal preparation for pregnancy, but it felt inadequate. After going through pregnancy twice with T1D and running several T1D and Pregnancy focused support groups, I think I have figured out a few helpful things to be aware of on your pregnancy journey.

Don’t let anyone convince you that you ONLY need to lower your A1c to a specific number. This will not prepare you for the rigors of blood sugar management during pregnancy.

It can be a very LONELY journey if you do not know anyone else who has been through pregnancy with T1D.

You NEED a medical team who hears you, listens to your concerns, fears, questions, and is willing to work with you and not against you!

You might have to create a bit more FLEXIBILITY in your work and life schedule to accommodate for extra office appointments and monitoring later in your pregnancy before your baby arrives.

Don’t skip making a specific BIRTH PLAN, communicate it with your medical team, and be sure to include how you wish to manage your T1D during labor and delivery.

I support and help women on their pregnancy journeys with T1D feel prepared and confident in my Mama-to-Be with T1D group support programs. My Fall group starts on October 18th!

Interested in learning more about this group? DM me TODAY or complete my application linked in my bio and let’s chat!

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08/31/2023

Sometimes while I am soaking up the sweetness of my littles ones, I silently thank myself for putting in all of the management effort I possibly could during my pregnancies with T1D.

I know how difficult it is to manage T1D during pregnancy. Pregnancy is also not short either. It can feel like a steep, rocky, uphill battle some days and some days are like walking in a breezy grassy meadow. I am proud of myself for giving it my all during my pregnancy experiences.

I understand what it is like to feel like you are failing because your blood sugar is high and you have tried everything to bring it down during pregnancy.

I understand what it feels like to shed tears over the fears surrounding a T1D pregnancy for you and your baby.

I understand the amazing feeling of joy seeing your baby growing and developing as expected on an ultrasound screen despite feeling like your pregnancy experience is disadvantaged.

T1D pregnancy is difficult, but very doable. It was hard for me to see the doable part until I had been through pregnancy myself. When I was preparing for pregnancy, I could only see the hard parts.

I feel strongly that the T1D pregnancy experience can be so much easier with the right kind of support. I am so thankful that I personally sought out more support, asked more questions in my doctor’s appointments, and had a bit more education to tackle what was to come during my pregnancies with T1D. It made my experience so much smoother and I could actually enjoy most of it.

My passion to prepare other women for their pregnancy journeys is what brought me here! I knew from my own experience that there were so many gaps to be filled to support women better who plan to go through pregnancy or who are pregnant with T1D. I have tried to do this 1:1 coaching, group coaching!

I would love to support you on your journey! Complete the application link in bio for to learn more about my Mama-to-Be with T1D Group Support and Coaching Program launching in October.

08/29/2023

Repeat after me, “I will not be able to control everything during pregnancy with T1D.”

The truth is, even with the very best management during pregnancy with T1D, complications with you or your baby could still arise.

Which is why our pregnancy is considered high risk.

There are also several aspects of pregnancy that we just can’t control like how pregnancy hormones may impact our blood sugar management overall which has nothing to do with carb counting or prebolusing.

With these factors to consider, it takes so much to start your T1D and pregnancy journey:

Intense bravery
Being willing to take on the unknown
Being able to be flexible and keep an open mind with what may lie ahead

These are hard things to develop, cultivate, and accept especially without lived experience or the right kind of support available

Which is why I offer a pregnancy and t1d specific group education and coaching program

To help you prepare for the things you can control during pregnancy and for the things you may not be able to control and allow you to enjoy more of your pregnancy journey with less feeling or fear and frustration

Enrollment is open for my fall Mama to be with T1D group program! 🎉

We luck off in October. To learn more, DM me “more info” or complete the application, link in bio.

08/22/2023

I think it is normal to feel fearful of pregnancy with T1D. 😕⁣
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⁣There are SO MANY factors to consider:⁣
⁣🔹Will high blood sugar impact my baby⁣
⁣🔹Will low blood sugar impact my baby⁣
⁣🔹I have never had a HbA1c below 7, how can I achieve this before falling pregnant⁣
⁣🔹Will my having T1D cause pregnancy complications⁣
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⁣Just to name a few! 😕⁣
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⁣Managing T1D during pregnancy is TOUGH, maybe even the toughest thing you have dealt with so far living with T1D, BUT IT IS DOABLE especially with the right support! 💙⁣
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⁣💙 You CAN feel confident and good during your T1D and pregnancy journey! ⁣
⁣💙 You CAN enjoy all of your favorite foods and not crash diet to lower your HbA1c!⁣
⁣💙 You CAN be prepared for what is likely in store for you during your pregnancy journey!⁣
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⁣➡️ If you would like to possess helpful tools to assist you in balancing your blood sugar, lowering your HbA1c (if needed), and feel supported by other people who are right on the same journey as you, then my “Mama-to-Be with T1D and Beyond” T1D & Pregnancy program is for YOU! 🎉⁣
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⁣We kick my fall program off on Wednesday, October 11th! 🎉⁣

This group is for YOU if:
➡️You are planning for pregnancy with T1D in the next year
➡️You are trying to conceive with T1D currently
➡️You are currently pregnancy with T1D
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⁣I won’t be offering this group again until the new year so this will be your last chance for a while to join us! Be sure to DM me if you are interested in learning more or submit an application link in bio today! 📲⁣

08/04/2023

IMO, Pregnancy and Parenting with T1D are the toughest things to manage living with T1D!

Before embarking on my T1D and Pregnancy journey, I thought I had accomplished some rad things with T1D. . . running long distance races, completing long distance backpacking trips, traveling to remote places, surviving a full-time grad school program while working full-time. . .

My T1D management wasn’t perfect, but I made it through all of these activities unscathed with a consistent A1c.

Then I got pregnant and I felt like I didn’t really know how to manage my T1D AND maintain a healthy pregnancy. It felt like a HUGE undertaking that I wasn’t ready for and I STRUGGLED to find helpful resources on the internet and from my medical team which made me feel SUPER ALONE.

I was mad at myself for not preparing better for this journey, but honestly how could I because I had never done this before!?

I buckled down and paid close attention to how my eating and activity impacted my blood sugar and I managed to do well overall with my T1D management during my first pregnancy. I owe much of this to my excellent Endo that was part of my MFM team - I truly got lucky.

Then my daughter was born and I started a whole new chapter of managing T1D while trying to breastfeed, sleeping a few hours/day, not eating balanced meals, AND there was NO BREAK between pregnancy and now parenting with T1D.

I remember thinking, “Is this a joke? Can I have a little breather before jumping head first into this whole mom thing!”

I felt SUPER ALONE again with NO ONE to relate to on this journey!

Pregnancy and Parenting with T1D present unique struggles and needs which can be hard to find in your everyday life.

This fall, I am offering my Mama-to-Be with T1D & Beyond program for people who are planning or currently pregnant with T1D AND a new support program for people who are parenting or caregiving who are ALSO living with T1D!

If you are interested in these programs, get on the waiting list, link in bio!

08/01/2023

Do you think you have to AVOID crackers and only eat veggies as a snack during pregnancy with T1D? 🤔

Guess again‼️

You CAN include a variety of foods including carbs like crackers during pregnancy with T1D and still keep your blood sugar balanced! 🫢

Instead of eliminating crackers completely from your snack plate, try pairing them with a protein source like hummus and a fiber source like veggies to help balance out your blood sugar and add some extra nutrients to your meal as well to help support a healthy pregnancy! 🤰🏽

If you include a variety of foods rather than cut foods out during pregnancy and T1D, you can actually better BALANCE your blood sugar AND support a healthy baby! ❤️

Things are ever changing during pregnancy like:
your baby’s growth 👶🏽
your own food aversions (there might be certain foods you no longer like to eat) 😟
food cravings 🤤
possible nausea and vomiting 🤢
your appetite 😋
your nutrition needs ⚖️
and blood sugar management with T1D! 😵‍💫

Your intake NEEDS to be FLEXIBLE and VARIED throughout your pregnancy to BEST handle ALL of these constant changes! 😊

If you would like to learn about how to support a healthy pregnancy while keeping all foods on your plate with T1D, sign up for my Mama-to-Be with T1D & Beyond Group Program waiting list, link in bio for my next program launching this October! 🎉

07/24/2023

I’m curious, what’s your favorite low snack!? 🧃😊 comment below! ⬇️

07/07/2023

How good is season 2 of The Bear!? 🐻

I definitely feel frustrated when I get messages about Mama’s-to-Be with T1D using food restriction as a tool to help manage their blood sugar during pregnancy with T1D. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Honestly, I also feel frustrated when I get messages from Mama’s-to-Be with T1D who are put on a 60 grams of carbs per meal plan when they are in the throes of insulin resistance! 🤦🏻‍♀️

To manage T1D and blood sugar as balanced as possible during pregnancy with T1D, you need lots of tools and a flexible mindset.

There is truly not a one size fits all approach.

Pregnancy is ever changing and it takes a whole toolbox full of tools to not only manage it well along with T1D, but also to feel good and savor the sweet moments of the journey too!

I try to prepare and support you as best as I can in my coaching programs!

Check out my link in bio for my application for 1:1 coaching and my waiting list for my next Mama-to-Be with T1D group program this fall!

07/04/2023

Here are some 4th of July food pairing options to help support balanced blood sugar in pregnancy with T1D! 🎆

These options can help you enjoy your 4th of July festivities and encourage more balanced blood sugar which sometimes can be tricky to achieve during summer cookouts! 😃

🍉 Watermelon - is a lower carb fruit option that is in season AND is also hydrating and sweet!

🍔 Burger on whole wheat bun and veggies - is a high protein and fat (burger) as well as a high fiber option (veggies) that can help keep blood sugar balanced and steady when paired with a carb-filled bun!

🥔 Oven roasted potatoes - pair nicely with a burger and if eaten along with the burger and watermelon at a meal can help keep blood sugar more balanced rather than eating potatoes (high carb) on their own!

These options can also be helpful in satisfying necessary nutrients for pregnancy like: Iron, Vitamin C, Vitamin A, and B Vitamins!

I hope you find these options helpful when planning for your 4th of July cookout, but also want to keep your blood sugar balanced!!! 📉

➡️ Continue to follow me for helpful tips on managing T1D during pregnancy and in everyday life!

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