How I went from always being tired to never being tired and what in my kitchen did the trick.

[BellaClaudia]

Okay, first bit about problem:
so I have been nursing for the last 4 years + and
for most of this period I was just so tired and lethargic
that I could hardly functionned.
At first I attributed to being new mom.. nursing on demand,
sleepless night, super active baby..

Then years passed, I get full night sleep, my child is
very managable, lifestyle is very stable and the only thing
I could think of was that there must be somethign wrong
with my metabolism.. or something else..

i was thinking, thyroid.. I was thinking anemia..
I was thinking lack of calcium..

I know I have some anemia as I always was
and I positively despise milk so I might have
had calcium deficiency to some degree
an I might have thyroid problem but I just
never went about to check it.

SOLUTION:

I was thinking and thinking and I finally decided that
no matter the problem I should do something to
help myself. I might never know what the problem was
but I feel much better now. I mean million times better.
I have full energy and I function all day long ad at 10pm
I could ran marathon if you would join me

It all started this summer, I got flue. I felt miserably
and then recovery was a struggle. I felt very weak
for few weeks.

I looked around for vitamins in my world and I
will NEVER take any artificial vitamin or supplement
if YOU PAY me. no way. and I thought I need something.

1. I started with one orange daily. I squized orange
juice on a hand glass lemon thingy squizer. It yeld
half of little glass more less, then I added some water
to it and bit of sugar. I drenk it every morning for
3 weeks or so.. religiously. I started feeling better
after few days so it was very motivating.
I started buying oranges by bags and I just use them
that way.

It became my morning orange juice ritual.
it is delicious, it has no chemicals in it (I buy organic)
or preservatives like store bought juice, it has
no pulp or chemicals squized from the skin..

can't get fresher then that.

2. I liked my juice thingy and I decied to kick it up a notch.
I started making my "Morning juice" that both me and
my kid enjoy immensly.

It is like smoothie minus the ice. I don't like the
ice part and I have very sensitiv for colds throat.

so..

I take one banana, few strawberries (4 or so)
and add a cup of water or so.. however I feel..
and then just blend it using motorboat kind of
food blender.. or just any food blender.

I do it with any fruits..

usually banana as a base and then add
either blueberries ( a handfull)
or apple
or pear
or raspberries.

I blend it with water, add some sugar and
drink it.

It became my liquid breakfast.

No matter if I eat something later or not..
I know I filled up on vitamins.

After few weeks I notice such a huge difference in
the way I feel.

I just really realized how much vitamins I can pup
in my body doing it regularly. I never had enough time
or mind to remember to eat that much fruit a day.
And it was a hassle.. as it takes up volume in my tummy
and I usually never felt like it anyhow..

So now I drink up so many fruits and it feels great.!

I love my soulution as it was in my kitchen all this time
and I know it woks. I tried to see if it is really that
or what so I took few days break and immediately
I felt more sluggish... and less energy and tired.

so this must be working.

now I am trying to add to it a coconut milk as
this does miracles to metabolism and to thyroid
and any infections in the body..

I started with store bought coconut milk that
tastes like nothing that is in refrigerators in helth foods.
it is good but I want to make my own coconut milk,
it supposed to be easy.


I tried many different things to feel better but nothing
worked and I really love this fruit terapy :-).
It is fast, easy, right there, no extra effort,
delicious, nutritious and it let me gulp so many
vitamins in minerals IN REAL form as mother nature
intended.

so this is my story, hope this helps someone
out there because I wish I had someone
to tell me to try this long ago.

we are moms who are always busy and looking
for some way to keep healthy and energetic
to keep up with the demands of life.
those of us who nurse like myself know
that nursing is a toll on the body..

so I think that those fruits are just nature's miracle
and there is no need to pay anyone for special
formulas, diets or supplements.
god gave us all that there is needed.

I love my solution because sometimes I was
just too tired to eat right, I could fed my family
but I did not have apetite to eat much.

many of things that are around us are god's
medicin cabinet..
all continents know how bananas are bread for many people,
how many things they cure and how many nutrients they have,
the same goes for apple.. iron and stuff in it..
and raspberries.. iron, and vitamins by tons..
and strawberries.. iron.. and vitamins..
and pears..
and watermelon .. clensing etc..

and what a brilliantly easy it is to just dump it in
a blender, add some water and sugar and drink it
in the morning instead of coffie or if you need to
next to it espeically since coffe is like a brush that
cleans your body form so many valuable nutrients
taht makes you pee them right out..

okay enough of this.

hope this will help someone. it is free idea from God to me from
me to you:-)

no side effects no overdose :-) and
huge amount of delicousness fabulousity.

huggs. q

[nikwik]

Just a note, in case you haven't tried to "make your own" coconut milk as yet...

Buy your coconut, still whole.
Make a hole in the outer casing -- G'ma used to hammer a screwdriver into it.
Carefully pour inner liquid out into a glass.
There's your coconut milk!

Sometimes G'ma would make a second hole and just pour out of either one. I think that was to relieve the pressure inside the coconut, making it easier to get the milk drained out. Either way, though it takes a little power to pound the screwdriver through the outer hull, it's worth the fresh milk inside!

I used to be really big on fresh juice myself, but got lazy. I finally borrowed a juicer (from G'ma!) for the rest of my pregnancy (hopefully I can afford my own not long after that, or I'll just go the blender route with soft fruits), and I really hope it'll help get my energy levels back up quickly. Anyway, wanted to second how easy it is to get the fresh coconut milk and how wonderful a supplement of fresh fruit juices can be.

[katiesk]

technically, nikwik, i think that is coconut water, not milk. coconut milk is easily made by simmering together bits of coconut and coconut water and straining the mixture to make - coconut milk.

[ernalala]

I agree with you 1oo percent on the fruit coctail in the morning (or at noon as I often do), but would prefer to leave out the added sugar. No need for that since you already have more than enough fructose in your drink and the drinks are sweet enough like that.

I love to eat yoghurt with fresh fruit, too.
Or mix it with fresh juice.

AND you reminded me I ought to do this more often again, like daily .

[mommathea]

Originally Posted by ernalala

I agree with you 1oo percent on the fruit coctail in the morning (or at noon as I often do), but would prefer to leave out the added sugar. No need for that since you already have more than enough fructose in your drink and the drinks are sweet enough like that.

I love to eat yoghurt with fresh fruit, too.
Or mix it with fresh juice.

AND you reminded me I ought to do this more often again, like daily .

Yea that!!!

I've been doing a fruit smoothy lately for breakfast.
Frozen strawberries, bananas, orange juice, spoon full of homemade apple sauce, a spoon of organic shredded coconut, and a spoon of wheat germ
Sometimes I'll add homemade yogurt also.

[Sativarain1]

fresh fruit smoothies are great for warm summer days, but in the Autumn I start craving warm drinks like chai, and tea and coffee. Although your right that the fresh fruit ups the nutrition factor. I however just tend to crave different things depending upon the season.

[ernalala]

You can have AND a fresh fruit juice drink/smoothie AND a tea/coffee/chai alltogether :-) That's what I do, two drinks, one fresh and cool, one hot and cosy. Good for fluid intake anyway :-).

[organicmom3]

Good for you!
We try to incorporate as many raw food breakfasts as we can too! We have a vitamix so adding greens like spinach or kale to those fruit smoothies pumps us up wven more! Yum! They end up being green smoothies but with the fruit you can't even taste the 'green'!

[WeasleyMum]

Good for you! Sounds like you've made huge strides in taking care of yourself.

I have been having similar issues in the past few months; I'm a new mom to an almost-5 mo baby who's EBF, nursing on demand, and very large for his age (18 pounds at his 4-month visit). My problem was mostly (and don't laugh!) remembering to eat. Like, actually eating one large or two smaller meals to represent 'breakfast' and lunch', and making sure that they actually had some kind of protein in them. (Fruit and veg are easy for me, I'm always noshing on a piece of fruit.)

I've always worked, and having that regular schedule reminded me of when to eat: grab breakfast before starting work, eat lunch on my lunch break. Now that I'm at home all day, every day, with this totally random, sporadic schedule-- some days we get up at 8am, some days not till 11am, just depending on the night we had-- I realized that I wasn't eating until I was starving. Not good! I'm losing weight really fast (all the baby weight is gone, plus some extra pounds) but now I want to slow it down and have more energy instead. So as soon as DS takes his first nap of the day, I try to heat up some dinner leftovers or fry up some eggs. It's only been a few days, but I think it's working well so far!

Also, I bought a jar of coconut *oil* and am trying to incorporate it into my diet, but am having difficulty. It's the expensive, virgin kind, so I don't just want to use it for frying or something, but trying to eat it straight gagged me. Suggestions? So far I've been putting it in my bath water, instead of ingesting it.

[organicmom3]

Originally Posted by WeasleyMum

Also, I bought a jar of coconut *oil* and am trying to incorporate it into my diet, but am having difficulty. It's the expensive, virgin kind, so I don't just want to use it for frying or something, but trying to eat it straight gagged me. Suggestions? So far I've been putting it in my bath water, instead of ingesting it.

We use coconut oil for lots of things....unrefined....
We use it for popping corn, on my hands when they are dry, for frying eggs, in baking when the recipe calls for shortening, for stir frys, frying just about anything really....Some people I know use it as a moisterizer.

if you don't want to use it all the time, just use it for frying a couple times a week.

[tanyam926]

I make smoothies too and I really need to get back in the groove and start doing it religiously again.

I melt the coconut oil and then add it to the smoothie and it blends well. Doesn't work if you don't melt if first though.

I have heard soooo many great things about the vitamix, I am really wanting one.

[WeasleyMum]

Originally Posted by organicmom3

We use coconut oil for lots of things....unrefined....
We use it for popping corn, on my hands when they are dry, for frying eggs, in baking when the recipe calls for shortening, for stir frys, frying just about anything really....Some people I know use it as a moisterizer.

if you don't want to use it all the time, just use it for frying a couple times a week.

Originally Posted by tanyam926

I make smoothies too and I really need to get back in the groove and start doing it religiously again.

I melt the coconut oil and then add it to the smoothie and it blends well. Doesn't work if you don't melt if first though.

I have heard soooo many great things about the vitamix, I am really wanting one.

Thanks ya'll! So far I've tried (besides using it as a bath oil)-- lubing up my poor, over-worked BF'ing nipples (this probably kicks me out of the EBF club, who knows ), adding it to my morning oatmeal instead of butter (worked so-so, kind of too greasy?), frying eggs (worked great!), and in place of half the butter in a cobbler topping. (perfect.) It's getting there...

[CageFreeFamily]

A morning smoothie is so awesome!

We add ground flax, hemp seed, coconut oil, acai and cod liver oil to ours.

[SandyMom]

I find that if I add some fat - like an avocodo or 1 TB coconut oil to my fruit smoothies it helps even out blood sugar levels.

[foogoomomma]

Originally Posted by SandyMom

I find that if I add some fat - like an avocodo or 1 TB coconut oil to my fruit smoothies it helps even out blood sugar levels.

Thank you for that tip we are really watching blood sugar around here.