Re: food diary (preconception mode)

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Sounds Great Filiippa. I am inspired. When is our breakfast/lunch date

again? LA :-]

Joanne

PS. for preconception, how about fish eggs? We could blend with raw cheese

or quark for a dip with carrot and celery sticks. I'll try to find some

locally. I also feel more raw egg would be good (perhaps in your

mid-morning smoothies if you are hungry enough. Would that be over eating

for the undereating phase WD guys? )

The fermented vegies you are adding are gonna be great.

How did you feel after the raw liver pills? Much more energy?

^^ " coriander/kefir/garlic/sea salt dip "

can we have the recipe please....

[Guest guest]

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From: wes@...

When is our breakfast/lunch date again?

===> heh heh! after our dinner date!

PS. for preconception, how about fish eggs? We could blend with raw cheese

or quark for a dip with carrot and celery sticks. I'll try to find some

locally.

==> Sounds good! If I can eat raw liver pills I can eat fish eggs! Wish I'd

been more into them in Japan when I had the chance. Maybe the Japanese grocer

Sunmart might have them? I'll check next time I'm there. I guess they wouldn't

be fresh though.

I also feel more raw egg would be good (perhaps in your mid-morning smoothies if

you are hungry enough. Would that be over eating for the undereating phase WD

guys? )

===> Yes I've been thinking about this. Have put raw eggs in smoothies a couple

of times. Forgot yesterday and didn't worry today because of all the ice cream.

But I guess I should be having them every day.

The fermented vegies you are adding are gonna be great.

====> I've made saurkraut a few times now but ate them all up with sausages on

Monday (after you recommended the Q-store butcher - they were yummy but I forgot

to get the gluten free ones!).

How did you feel after the raw liver pills? Much more energy?

====> Can't say. I still got the afternoon sleepies but maybe because of the

sweet smoothie I had. On the whole I would say I have more energy and I think

I'm looking healthier.

^^ " coriander/kefir/garlic/sea salt dip "

====> yes it was yummy scrummy. I just blended a bunch of coriander with kefir

cheese, raw garlic and sea salt. Made a great topping for the zucchini pancakes

and a great dip with the cucumber today. yum yum.

ps. to everyone, forgot to mention that almost everthing I eat is

organic/pasture fed/free range/raw

Thanks Joanne ;-)

Filippa

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>I know cooked miso soup in the morning isn't really WD but it was to satisfy

hubby who looked uncomfortable with the lack of " breakfast " food. I weaned him

off bread onto porridge and now am weaning him off that but he's still clinging

to the idea of breakfast foods even though miso soup is a traditional Japanese

breakfast (and he's Japanese)! Ah well, we'll get there. My main query is am I

eating enough for preconception diet?

Broth for breakfast is awfully traditional though, so I'd go for it. I'd say:

follow your appetite. It takes a couple of weeks to adjust, but my appetite did

a 100% shift in odd unpredicted ways. In theory, if your appetite is working,

you will eat what you NEED. I've found that in fact that is happening. Some

people gain weight on this diet, some people lose weight. But when you have a

lot of body fat, leptin is supposed to be produced and THAT is supposed to

curtail your appetite some. If you have less fat, you should have more appetite,

and probably appetite for more calorific things. So healing a person's appetite

should autmatically take care of " eating enough " . I've been eating less and less

during the day (just don't feel like it) but if I get hungry, I eat (just not

starches).

Seems like you have good nutrients in your diet though! The main thing is to get

folic acid (my sister lost a fetus to spina bifida) and vitamins, and make sure

you have *some* body fat.

-- Heidi

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Thanks Heidi. Do you think it's OK to assume I'm getting enough folic acid from

my diet or do you think it's important to take a supplement? I have fat on my

thighs and bottom but nowhere else, does that count? ;-)

~ Filippa

Re: food diary (preconception mode)

Seems like you have good nutrients in your diet though! The main thing is to

get folic acid (my sister lost a fetus to spina bifida) and vitamins, and make

sure you have *some* body fat.

-- Heidi

[Guest guest]

>Thanks Heidi. Do you think it's OK to assume I'm getting enough folic acid

from my diet or do you think it's important to take a supplement? I have fat on

my thighs and bottom but nowhere else, does that count? ;-)

Sounds like you are in good shape! Fat on the thighs and bottom are exactly

where it should be. I don't know much about the folic acid issue. I don't absorb

vitamins well, I KNOW that, so I took folic acid supplements. Others might

disagree. But you have a rather ideal diet compared to most women, and I'm

guessing you weren't as old as I was then either.

-- Heidi

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====> I've made saurkraut a few times now but ate them all up with sausages

on Monday (after you recommended the Q-store butcher - they were yummy but I

forgot to get the gluten free ones!).

I'm pretty sure they are all gluten free

Joanne

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I'm 33 and hubby is a young 48. I've only been eating meat for just over a year

now and only more so lately so I still have low iron/zinc and hyper-sensitive to

cold and heat (but especially cold). My dilemma is about vitamins. I know I

don't absorb my food well so maybe I should take vitamin supplements. There seem

to be so many contradictions about vitamins - we need them, we don't need them,

we should get them from our diet, we can't get them from the modern diet, etc

etc. I am thinking of taking ionic minerals though and now I'm wondering if I

should take vitamins too? I really want to have a NAPD baby a la Weston Price!!

~ Filippa

Re: food diary (preconception mode)

Sounds like you are in good shape! Fat on the thighs and bottom are exactly

where it should be. I don't know much about the folic acid issue. I don't absorb

vitamins well, I KNOW that, so I took folic acid supplements. Others might

disagree. But you have a rather ideal diet compared to most women, and I'm

guessing you weren't as old as I was then either.

-- Heidi

[Guest guest]

Filippa, i've been doing a lot of coconut oil reading and hence thyroid

reading. Your sensitivity to hot and cold, esp. cold, could be indicative of

a thyroid disorder. Pregnancy can make that a lot worse.

Elaine

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> hyper-sensitive to cold and heat (but especially cold).

[Guest guest]

Thanks Elaine, well hopefully the coconut oil will balance that but I might get

my thyroid tested too - I wonder if that's why I'm thin. I eat more than anyone

in my family - they all call me " hollow legs " - always have!

Re: food diary (preconception mode)

Filippa, i've been doing a lot of coconut oil reading and hence thyroid

reading. Your sensitivity to hot and cold, esp. cold, could be indicative of

a thyroid disorder. Pregnancy can make that a lot worse.

Elaine

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> hyper-sensitive to cold and heat (but especially cold).