22 January 2012
I've been trying to keep a food log for the past few days to really see what I have been eating and hopefully be able to make sure I am getting all the nutrients I need. It's really crazy how being pregnant has changed my perspective on a few things. One, I simply can't look at food from a weight-loss perspective. Having said that, I know that I am currently already overweight and I don't wanto to gain crap tons. Two, while I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that having a 100% vegan pregnancy is not only possible, but has been proven to work, I feel like at this time I don't have the resources to do that properly and I really don't want to fuck around with inflexible dogma right now. So, I have made the decision to eat organic free range eggs once a week and to have a bit of goat kefir or goat yogurt once or twice a week. Funny enough, I made this decision after reading a raw food book "Evie's Kitchen: Raising and Ecstatic Child" by Shazzie. She talks about the importance of lesser known vitamins like K2 and choline. I think that my prenatal gives me a bit of K2 because it has natto extract, but it isn't listed on the box so I can't be sure. Also, choline is found in lecithin but the only lecithin that I have access to right now states specifically that it is from a GMO source. Maybe as I continue researching and learning about these issues I can go back to being 100% vegan but at this moment, I have to make decisions that are bigger than me and I truly do not fucking know what else to do.
This is what I have been eating:
20 Jan 2012
-breakfast porridge with cooked oats, banana, peanut butter, honey and cinnamon
one big ass juicy orange
-midmorning snack of 1.5 Raw Health brand raw pitta bread (basically just a not so yummy thick raw cracker) topped with a guacamole made from avocado, lemon juice, garlic, salt and chopped cherry tomatoes
-lunch of big salad made by hubby with lettuce, beets, cucumbers, apples and celery mixed with a mustard dill dressing
-bit of a Raw Health brand cherry chocolate bar (also underwhelming, but sort of awesome that I prefer my own creations!)
-a few unsulphured dried apricots
-some raw brownie crumbles and chopped strawberries
-two tiny carrots and a little hazelnut basil pate
-stevia lemonade
-cooked dinner of sauteed onions, brussel sprouts with rice pasta and walnut pate thinned out with packaged almond milk
-Supplements: today I had 3 Vitamin Code Prenatal vitamins, one DHA cap and a spray of sublingual vitamin D
21 Jan 2012
-porrige with strawberries and carob powder
-2 organic eggs (which I immediately threw up)
-raw brownie and a few sips of green tea
-fresh pineapple
-salad and a bit of white bean soup from Ecocentre buffet
-small tub of chocolate Booja Booja raw ice cream
-dried apple pieces
-stevia lemonade
-dinner of organic corn/mushroom pasta with broccoli, green peppers, sundried tomatoes, carrots and basil tofu
Supplements: 3 Vitamin Code raw prenatal vitamins
I ate less on Saturday than I did on Friday. Friday I felt good and was ravenous. I'm not worried about it because I have spend the last month barely able to keep down more than rice crackers with peanut butter and apples.
This is what I have been eating:
20 Jan 2012
-breakfast porridge with cooked oats, banana, peanut butter, honey and cinnamon
one big ass juicy orange
-midmorning snack of 1.5 Raw Health brand raw pitta bread (basically just a not so yummy thick raw cracker) topped with a guacamole made from avocado, lemon juice, garlic, salt and chopped cherry tomatoes
-lunch of big salad made by hubby with lettuce, beets, cucumbers, apples and celery mixed with a mustard dill dressing
-bit of a Raw Health brand cherry chocolate bar (also underwhelming, but sort of awesome that I prefer my own creations!)
-a few unsulphured dried apricots
-some raw brownie crumbles and chopped strawberries
-two tiny carrots and a little hazelnut basil pate
-stevia lemonade
-cooked dinner of sauteed onions, brussel sprouts with rice pasta and walnut pate thinned out with packaged almond milk
-Supplements: today I had 3 Vitamin Code Prenatal vitamins, one DHA cap and a spray of sublingual vitamin D
21 Jan 2012
-porrige with strawberries and carob powder
-2 organic eggs (which I immediately threw up)
-raw brownie and a few sips of green tea
-fresh pineapple
-salad and a bit of white bean soup from Ecocentre buffet
-small tub of chocolate Booja Booja raw ice cream
-dried apple pieces
-stevia lemonade
-dinner of organic corn/mushroom pasta with broccoli, green peppers, sundried tomatoes, carrots and basil tofu
Supplements: 3 Vitamin Code raw prenatal vitamins
I ate less on Saturday than I did on Friday. Friday I felt good and was ravenous. I'm not worried about it because I have spend the last month barely able to keep down more than rice crackers with peanut butter and apples.