Changing the way I eat

I have been thinking a lot about how I am going to eat through this whole postpartum journey. Actually all I can vainly think about is starting my workout and what I am going to eat and how I am going to approach the whole thing. Now that I am starting to slow down I mean REALLY slow down it is consuming my mind even more. I know that I should be resting more and I am but it's really hard when the past few years of your life have been active and healthy. 

So, I have been thinking about what approach helped me the best in my weight loss journey and truly it was eating good clean all natural foods. When I had the MOST success is when I went grain free for 21 days and my bloating and indigestion problems went away. Since I have gotten pregnant I let that lifestyle go because I wanted to enjoy pregnancy and give myself permission to indulge and to be honest I had not been following the grain free lifestyle for that long to have actually created a habit with it. 

I have slowly started to pick it back up again by making my breakfasts, most snacks, and lunches grain free and dinner sort of be a free for all a few times a week. It has been helping me put the focus back on the eating. With changing my diet this way over the past 2 weeks my weight gain has been steady or non-exsistent. I am over the 35 pound recommended gain so not gaining anything is ok as long as I am not losing weight I am ok with it. 

I started digging through my Paleo books and cooking up some of the recipes and I can tell you that some of the best recipes I have found have been from Against All Grain! Everything I have tried has been so tasty that you really don't miss the grains. 

Her website and cookbook have been the best resource for me. I love to cook with flavor and as long as flavor is there I am good to go. Hopefully, by the end of this pregnancy I will be able to make the full switch to a grain free diet. I don't think I will give up rice because as for now it doesn't effect my body in the way that certain vegetables and bread actually make me feel.

I plan on updating as time goes by and I gather some pictures of my meals if I really remember to keep everyone updated on what I am eating and some of my favorite resources that are out there. 

I still feel great being as pregnant as I am, even more so by eating the way that I am. I am not as lethargic or tired feeling and I have the energy to do more around the house that I thought before which helps me with the confidence in the way that I am eating and that makes me happy.

Just wanted to pop in on a little update on me :)

Weight and Paleo....again

A few weeks ago I was desperately seeking some weight loss because I could not fit into my bridesmaid dress. I had no idea that those damned things ran small so I was essentially wearing a smaller size than my normal?? Anyway It wouldn't fit and I seriously took it to the seamstress and she said that I needed 2 inches taken out but she could only give me one! I had three weeks until the wedding and losing 5 pounds was more of a mind &*&%^ than anything else. I couldn't do it because I kept sabotaging myself with the foods the kids were eating candy, popcorn, eating out ect.

Needless to say I got "desperate" and bought this meal plan and it was a grain free meal plan. I was like eh WHATEVER I need to lose these few pounds or inches so I can get into this dress. I knew that this way of thinking wasn't healthy but what was I going to do? I HAD to fit into this dress. I am in the military supporting 2 kids and a house and I just can't throw $150 out the window because a dress doesn't fit.

SIDENOTE! I DO NOT CARE THIS BAD EVER ABOUT WEIGHING OR LOOKING A CERTAIN WAY THIS DRESS WAS GOING TO POTENTIALLY COST ME $150 + THAT I DON'T HAVE TO SPEND!

I made it through the first week on the meal plan and it wasn't that hard but I did eat some popcorn (that and chicken wings are my vice) I wanted sugar one day and sugar was in this popcorn so I ate it LOL. Not so great of a first week but I managed. I ate grain free the rest of the week. You know the story because I posted pictures on my last blog post. So fast forward. I am still doing the meal plan the dress fits and I feel better than ever! I have no complaints what so ever and that makes me happy because I thought that it was going to be terrible lol I have lost minimal inches and lost a pound from it BUT I lost the inflammation that I was having due to maybe I assume grains?

On that same weekend my husband told me the best news that I have heard in years! Other than the fact that we were leaving Kodiak, AK. LOL He was ready to have baby #3 with me! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I have never planned a baby the way my husband and I are planning it now and we are going to start trying here very soon. Which makes me ecstatic but also scares the living crap out of me. My last 2 pregnancies I had a handful of these "amazing" pregnancy ailments and I don't really want to experience them again :( I did not have enjoyable pregnancies because of these ailments and I want a healthier lifestyle for me and my new baby.

I didn't really know that grain-free was a part of being paleo, so when I started doing some research on grain free diets google hooked me up with Paleo diets lol. Paleo seems to fit what I am doing with my diet though because I am not eating legumes, dairy, or grains. I cannot really digest lactose so I try to stay away from it unless it comes to pizza lol. Anyway I have been doing a lot of research on how eating less carbohydrates and keeping a good diet for myself would help the baby and the primal way seems to make sense to me. I know I have gone vegan and vegetarian and I may seem a bit faddish but I don't blog about every single facet of my healthy lifestyle. Giving up grains has reduced my flatulence, I am not so tired all the time, and I can eat with no bounds but I don't over eat. I don't get bloated after I eat and I don't get the FULL feeling anymore like I did when I would eat breads and pastas. I would ALWAYS go to the cupboard for something sweet after having a starch like that other than oatmeal. So for right now I am just going with the flow.

If/when I get pregnant I will totally blog my whole experience because I think that people should know about it. I know there aren't many blogs out there now and the ones that are have very little information as to what the person ate and how it helped them and what not and they stuck to the general pregnancy aspect of it. I guess over the next few days I will talk about my past pregnancies and how I felt about them and the symptoms that I had with each of them to keep you posted.