Eleftheria is 2 months old now and I can’t believe how much she has grown, she has now grown out of her new born clothes and is comfortably into the 0-3 month range. She has gained 2kg since she was born and about 7cm in length. And she is now getting into a sleep routine and sleeping through the night, which is a relief for my tired eyes. Breast feeding is going well but I do notice that when I haven’t eaten so well or if I have overexerted myself physically I produce less milk, so I am particularly aware of how much I eat to ensure my milk supply doesn’t cease. I do want to lose some of my pregnancy weight and so I am working on a program.
It is my own Raw Challenge
During my pregnancy I wasn’t exactly a raw foodist, even though I was still having green juices and smoothies, nut milks, carob smoothies and salads I was still eating a lot of rubbish. There are lots of reasons for this and excuses I can give you, but the actual truth is that I was weak and very much fell into the trap of ‘I am eating for two’ school of thought and ‘I am pregnant I can eat what I want’.
Now that my daughter is 2 months old and we have both settled into a routine I think it is time to make some changes. I had the frighteners put on me by the Dr’s and was told not to eat vegetables and pulses for fear of giving the baby cholic. I didn’t really believe this 100% but after eating cooked lentils Eleftheria screamed and cried for 2 nights on the trot, so maybe there is a little truth in it. Since the baby was born I have been eating limited gassy vegetables and literally no pulses, as a vegetarian it didn’t leave me many options as to what I could eat so my diet has been very poor and I have been concentrating on just getting the calories in. Because I now want to start eating better, reducing calories from sugar and increasing my raw food intake, I have to be careful not to overdo it and stop my milk production. Therefore for me it means I have to carefully plan what I am going to eat so I make sure I have all the ingredients in the house and to make sure I don’t get caught off guard and get hungry and eat the first thing I find. I have searched around for recipes which are not very time consuming and easy to make as well as not requiring exotic ingredients which are impossible to find where I live. Using fitday.com I am going to ensuring I eat at least 2000 calories a day.
I am probably not going to go 100% raw straight away and may still eat a few cooked wholefood meals a week because I don’t want my body to go into shock and start dispelling toxins into my milk thus into my baby.
I did plan to take my body measurements but cannot seem to find my tape measure. I’ll just have to use my clothes as a reference.
Now that my body has pretty much recovered from the c-section I am also going to try and do some yoga a couple of times a week.
There it is all in writing, therefore I will be more determined to make it work.
Lets make this baby a real Raw Greek baby.
