Well, about six months ago I was fighting my battle with
Candida with everything I had. Our budget was suffering because I was buying so
many fresh vegetables and organic meats. (No one tells you that eating
completely clean and healthy will make your budget weep.) We were DOUBLING our
food budget for several months when we realized we just couldn’t dump that much
money into one category anymore when things were already so tight.
So we reassessed how to still battle Candida AND not push
ourselves into debt…and then I found out we would be expecting baby #3 sometime
mid-November of this year.
I was training for my first, official (paid for it, got
my bib-number and everything) 5K and ran the whole d@*mn race with sore boobs
and a body that wanted to quit because I felt so nauseous, but I made it!
I also tried my best to stick to my Candida diet but I
ended up losing another five pounds, not because I was vomiting, but because I
didn’t want to eat ANYTHING I’d been eating with vigor for the last four
months.
I envy the women who can eat all the veggies they want
during pregnancy but I’ve never been one of those women. I thought maybe
because I was eating so clean that the hormonal part of pregnancy wouldn’t hit
me as hard-wrong.
So wrong.
I incorporated carbs (saltine crackers mostly) and other
foods I hadn’t consumed in months back into my eating habits. My body went
through a rough transition as I rediscovered carbs and sugars.
So far I’m doing well overall. I’m gaining weight at a
VERY healthy rate right now (the first time I haven’t gained seven pounds in a
week with any of my pregnancies). I’m enjoying fruit this summer, which I have
always loved and missed more than most foods when I was on my strict diet.
The down side is, I still will occasionally have a
Candida-attack where I wake up in the middle of the night with raging gas
pains, sweat-beads on my forehead and my bum glued to the toilet for two-plus
hours or so. The next day involves extreme fatigue and “bowel-rest” (a term I
learned from my husband who works as an RN) where I don’t/can’t eat much of
anything.
My naturopath doctor told me I could not be on any
Fluconozole (sp?) while I’m pregnant OR breast-feeding so I will have to slowly
get a hold of my eating habits post-pregnancy and then go back into fighting
Candida after I’m done breast feeding #3.
We’re so excited about the baby. We recently found out we will be having another girl. Our other two children
were ecstatic when we told them they would have a sibling and have maintained
their enthusiasm.
A lot of life right now is less structured and we are
taking a “wait and see attitude” about the incoming of a new, little, human,
and what our physical health looks like in the future.
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| My daughter picking strawberries from our patch |
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| Basil from our garden (it made the BEST pesto!) |
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| Our first gathering of veggies from our garden boxes |
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| My son eating an ice cream, because summer and ice cream go so well together |
