Pregnancy Nutrition: Eaten Your Baby Weight in Chocolate, Cookies and Candy?
These few days between Christmas and New Year are always a bit of a strange time. You know that you’ve seriously overindulged on all the bad stuff over the last 4 days but with New Years celebrations just round the corner it seems pointless to resume your healthy pregnancy diet right now only to ruin it again on 3 days time – but here’s the thing I asked myself this morning when I looked in the mirror and saw my dull and congested complexion and realised that I felt absolutely terrible from all the sugar I’d eaten in the last few days (and yes it is quite possibly the weight of my 13 month old baby!).
“How do you want to feel on New Years Eve?”
Now I’m not planning on doing anything major – I have a babysitter, but I also have to get up with that baby at 6am so the days of all night partying are long gone (sigh). BUT – I still want to make the most of this rare occasion that I get to dress up and go out as an adult and celebrate. And that means I want my skin to glow, my hair and nails to be shiny and I want to feel energised and good from the inside out!
Now 3 days may not seem like long enough to claw back your complete pregnancy health from all the ravages of the Christmas period, and its not really – BUT – its amazing the difference you can make to the way you look and feel in just 3 days!
In fact you’ll feel and see the difference in just 24 hours – especially if you are experiencing things like heartburn, bloating, sickness, fatigue, headaches, constipation, water retention, or pregnancy acne.
So here’s what to do:
For the next 3 days focus all of your meals on alkalising foods. Alkalising foods will reduce the acidity in your body and bring your body back to a healthy pregnancy balance. Alkalising foods are mainly fruit and vegetables, as well as alkaline water sources such as reverse osmosis, Evian and Volvic.
So the bulk of every meal you have should be vegetables.
Eg.
Today I had:
Breakfast: Carrot sticks, cucumber strips, tomatoes, olives and feta cheese with hummus dip. 1 litre Evian
Lunch: Prawn and mango stir fry. Evian
Dinner: Lamb and Spinach curry with a tomato and onion side salad – less lamb – loads of spinach and the side salad was probably just as big as the main! Evian
Snacks: nuts, grapes, clementine
Already I feel much better than I did this morning and my skin is looking clearer – so now I can look forward to feeling pretty on New Years Eve instead of pretty awful!
