Best laid plans

Pregnant
Week 7

I am having a pretty rough time of it. I would not be telling the truth if I did not come on here and blog about it. I am pretty down as far as raw foods and my plans for a raw pregnancy have been usurped by pretty bad nausea. I feel like I am on an upswing, but it has been pretty bad. I have not thrown up, but have instead had non stop nausea all day... I am having a hard time eating anything or convincing myself to eat anything and this makes it worse.

I have a few things that sound good and are raw or at least super healthy.. but much of what my diet used to be is sounding awful. Esp sweet fruit and greens. The worst offender is pineapple... I had a whole incident with a pineapple and I will just say pineapple will not find it's way into my grocery cart for a while. I used to love it, not anymore. Along with the naseau, I have had random loss of energy. With Astrid I got really sleepy at 8 pm, which lasted through my pregnancy... I was just an early to bed type girl... pretty easy to plan around. With this one, I am fine and then BOOM... tired. It can hit at anytime during the day and USUALLY is only remedied by an hour or two nap. Then I am OK again. But, it can hit at noon, 2, 5... whenever... no rhyme or reason. Down for the count.

I wish I could blog that I have been 80% raw, but I have not even been vegan... I have been having cheese and sugar has been creeping in too. Which just makes me feel not so good... I will try not to feel guilty...

Good food I am happy with
1.) Vegetable soup with Quinolla (I put a lot of greens in since raw greens are making me so unhappy)
2.) Calcium Chocolate Shake

• Raw Cacao (loaded with Calcium and antioxidants
• Banana (not too ripe or it makes me sick)
• Black strap molasses (loaded with Calcium and Iron)
• Almond Butter (High calcium and protein)
• A little bit of greens (not enough to taste... I am sneaking it in... like I do with kids)
• Almond milk (Calcium)
  
• Ice
  

3.) 365 day whole foods sesame seed bar (big calcium and protein source) I will buy a whole box this week. I am craving the sesame.

So, I still have not found the right balance... but, it is getting to be managable and I am going to do better and better. I keep telling myself I will re evaluate once I get past the first trimester.

I have found a prenatal vitamin with lots of herbs that seems to be helping... and I am happy to sip the pregnancy tea. I also have found some ginger candies that are helping a lot.



Midwife... FOUND
I found the Midwife and went to a visit with her last Saturday... I got an official though likely to change due date of March 21st and am officially in my 7th week... making my last entry wrong.. in case you are keeping track. Midwifes name is Chris Duffy and she gave me a great book called Eat to Live which is a great pro raw vegan starting point. I think I will always recommend this book from now on when people ask me how to start. It gives great reasons to eat vegetarian, vegan and raw. And lets you decide how healthy you want to eat. He makes a good case for raw... so add it to your book shelves immediately.

Weight disaster
Actually, speaking of keeping track... I have some sad news to report. At the visit to the midwife I was weighed and my suspicions about my scale were not only realized but exceeded by a whole lot. My scale at some point has been cheating me. And even though I am trying not to get disheartened... I am sad to report I weigh as much right now as I thought I did when I started this whole raw foods journey.

Now, this just means that I really weighed a whole lot more than I really did when I started...
But it is enough to make me want to cry that I am still so far away from being anywhere near 200 lbs... and with a baby on the way I will most likely not realize that goal for a lot longer.

The scale said 244 ... my scale at home that AM said 208. Now given the fact that the 244 was later and with clothes on, etc... I think we are looking at a 32 lb difference! UGH! I know please feel the pain of this with me. But, here is the good news. It also means that when I started raw foods I was closer to 272 instead of the 240 I listed... and I think we can breathe a sigh of relief that I am not still that heavy. Update- I updated the blog to reflect this!

I had a few moments of doubt where I actually thought I had not lost a lb and it all had been a scale mishap to think I had worked it off.... my dear husband was quick to remind me.. that it was not a scale mishap... he has seen it fall off. So, that made me feel a lot better.

I need to adjust all of my weight on the blog from now to then... But, I do not think I am strong enough just now... UGH! Can I pay someone to come in and change my weight for the entire journey? (Finally did it)

So, needless to say the scale went in the trash and I am going to be searching for a new one.
One to help me record this pregnancy as well as the weight loss that will follow the new babies arrival.

TAGGED

Double tagged! And I am not sure I have anyone left to tag? I will have to look and see who is left.

The Rules:
1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
2. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules. (**if you’re a non-blogger, you can email them!)
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.


8 Random Facts or Habits about me:

1. I used to write animal rights articles (undercover reporter style) in our underground high school newspaper. The best one was when I uncovered Polaroids of the AP science class posing a monkey before the dissected it. They had it smoking and playing poker, etc. Which I found in no way funny. Monkeys have rights too!

2. I also had a small comic strip in which the main character named , gosh what was her name, Stella I think... wore glasses and said sarcastic things. This was WAY before MTV somehow stole the idea for a character of their own... mine was better.

3. The first time Vyk picked me up for a date... he arrived in a old giant station wagon that he had spray painted black and then spray painted "JESUS SAVES" on the back. He arrived wearing black and with his hair sticking up too. My mom, ha!
He also skipped a Cure concert to go out with me on a second date... which is how I knew it was true love.

4. I have branches in my house, as decoration. Vyk calls them twigs, which I also find in no way funny.

5. I hate the sound of people filing their nails, esp with metal nail files. UGGH!

6. I hate it when people (meaning Vyk) scrape their feet on coffee tables to scratch or snap their toes (yes, you read it... SNAP their toes). I esp hate it when they think it is funny to teach our children such behavior. :[

7. I have no internal sense of direction or time. I have to rely on external measurements... if left to my feelings... I am way off. I have very elaborate ideas on why... but I will save that and just say it effects my ideas on education.

8. I can not skip. Lots of people have tried to teach me. I skip one sided. But, I can not skip using both legs. Sad really, and it says a lot about me as a person.

Since I kind of cheated and put a couple that were mainly about Vyk I will add...

9. My friends used to call me "tilt" in school, because I had a tilted haircut and carried a large bag on one side and tended to tilt to one side always when talking to you.

10. My first name is actually Dorothy... after my Aunt. Which would usually leak out once a year in school... how did I know when it leaked? ... the inevitable joke "Hey Dorothy, where's toto!"

OK so I am tagging all of small group (who have not already been tagged- Kelly, Rusty, Philip, Vyk.. Tyndall, you need to do it too), Kristal & Kathi, oh and Adam.